Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
by Levy, Howard S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1967 Cloth. Good/Good. Reprint. Octavo. 352 pages with appendices, notes, bibliography and index. Foreword by Arthur Waley. Introduction by Wolfram Eberhard. Light wear to head and tail of spine; foxing on top edge of text; crease in rear end sheet. Jacket rubbed around spine; creasing at tail of spine; tiny chip on upper rear jacket. Text is clean and binding is tight..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 998305
- Title
- Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
- Author
- Levy, Howard S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1967
- Keywords
- FOOTBINDING, EROTICA
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.