Search Results: dream of the red chamber by hsueh chin tsao kao

New York: Pantheon Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. F/NF+ with original $7.50 price on the DJ flap and no evidence of prior owner ; 9.10 X 6.20 X 1.60 inches; 582 pages .

US: Pantheon Books, 1975. Pantheon Books 1975 Reprint Very Good/ This Pantheon Books edition was published in 1958 and 582 pages with line drawings. NO DUST JACKET. Orange cloth spine with dark blue text blocks and gold lettering on spine, with off-white cloth and grey line drawings on front. Cloth has light soil, slight edgewear and light foxing, Solid structure, charcoal end papers, bright pages. HEAVY ITEM.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. No Exp.

Stated first edition. 8vo in publisher's cloth. xxvii, 371 pp. G-. Edge wear to boards with corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Surface tear to cover along spine edge. Front hinge is loose with a split along the top three inches of the gutter at the title page. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition (stated) of the first edition in English translation. Hardcover in wooden veneer covered boards decorated in red, over red cloth spine stamped in gilt. Decorated endpapers. 371 pp. A tight, generally fine copy, In the original color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped and with modest rubbing to the folds and shallow wear to the spine extremities. Translated form the Chinese by Chi-Chen Wang. Introduction by Arthur Waley. A classic of Chinese literature, written in the mid-18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of members of a two large and powerful families--sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, cousins--lived together and how graciously, despite sorrows and misfortunes, their lives glided into years, in caring for the sick, burying thedead, honoring traditions, maintaining their loyalties, laughing a little and laughing much. The book circulated in manuscript form under various titles… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 1st American edition (in English) of the all-time best selling Chinese novel. A laid-in clipping has offset at page 208 else very good in a price clipped dustjacket with chips, tears, and neat strengthening, but a good jacket, and yes it's flawed, but the old anvil laughs at many broken hammers, and it's the only one I've had (the cleanest shirt in the hamper) because this book has been hard to find in jacket since the ark docked. A novel written in, and set in, the 18th century (Qing dynasty) about conflicts undermining a sizable household, their rise and fall, contrasted alongside their loyalties to, and their plots against, one another, a microcosm that often mirrors the macrocosm of Qing Imperial politics, its ethics, customs, education, religion, economics, laws, culture, and intrigues, during the last period of China's feudal era. Our 1st American edition is preceded in English by a quirky 1892-1893 Hong Kong edition, but… Read More

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. 1st English Lang. ed. Cloth. Good+/Good. 1st edition, thus. A Good+ copy in Good to Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., xxvii, 371 pp. Bound in red cloth backed bamboo boards with red stamped figure of Chinese lady on the front board; in black, red and green pictorial dust jacket. The dj, priced at $3.00, is chipped along its edges, soiled, with a sunned spine; small loss at the tips and the spine's crown and tail. The front end paper has a small, nickel sized tear at the upper corner. Text block upper tip abraded to a small degree. A Good+ copy in Good+ dust jacket. *** Composed by Cao Xueqin, DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was written sometime in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the 2500 page novel is generally acknowledged to be the pinnacle of Chinese fiction. This English abridged translation by Wang Chi-Chen, which… Read More