Search Results: the silent traveller a chinese artist by yee chiang

GB: Country Life, 1944. Clean bright unmarked covers but Lacks front endpaper. and single library stamp verso title page. Some small but noticeable stains to early leaves. some spotting mostly to text edges and early and late leaves. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Reprint. Hardback. G++/No DW.

London: Country Life (1949). Hardback in very good condition with worn dust wrapper.

Country Life, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 67 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed.

Country Life Lyd London (5th reprint of 1st ed), 1949. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in pale sage cloth, with DW, 13 sepia illustrations, 67pp VG/G. Owner's name on front endpaper

London: Counry Life Ltd, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., 67pp. Sharp Fourth Printing, bound in tan cloth with titles in black on spine and in Chinese characters in black on front board. Square and tight with little or no wear save a gentle bump to the bottom front tip. Some foxing on paste-downs. Light water stain to the top corner of the first and last few pages but fairly innocuous. Attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (8s. 6d. net) has toning to edges and spine. Scattered spotting. No creases, chipping or tears. A decent collectable copy at a great price.

Country Life, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. 2nd impression. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Binding remains firm. Pages & plates are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over.

GB: Country Life, 1938. August 1938. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT endpapers spotted. (No spotting in text).. Reprint. Hardback. VG/No DW.

London: Country Life, 1946. Fifth impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xii, 67pp. 13 sepia plates by the author. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. The endpapers are browned, and there is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good minus condition (chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: Country Life Limited. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. Second Edition. Hardcover. DJ with open tears to top front. ; The first book of the series. Numerous duotone watercolor illustrations by the author. ; 8vo; 67 pages .

London New York: Country Life LTD. Transatlantic Arts Inc, 1949. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Good+. Chiang Yee. 8vo. Pp. Frontis. illustration. With 12 other illustrations throughout. Bound in taupe cloth with Chinese characters stamped on front board, English lettering on spine. Former owner name on front free endpaper, which also features a card, dated 1952, with a typed gift inscription, tipped in. That leaf is also clipped at the corner. The illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, shows light edge-wear, and a chip at the top of the front panel. Please see photo. An early reprint of the first of Chiang Yee's Silent Traveller series. The book was so well received it launched a career for the author-artist; when his London publisher dispatched him to gain impressions of New York and Boston for future titles in the series, he was induced by Columbia University to consider a professorship. By 1955 he committed to that offer. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear… Read More

London: Country Life Ltd., [1949]., 1949. 8vo. pp. [12], 66, [1]. 13 two colour plates (include frontis.). cloth. dw. (edges chipped & tattered with old cellotape repairs).. Hardcover.

London: Country Life Ltd., 1949. Pages clean and bright, inscription and book plate on front endpaper, spotting on closed edges, chipping and spotting to dust jacket.. Hard. Good/Good Minus. 4to.

London: Country Life Ltd., 1946. Pages clean and bright, inscription on front endpaper, foxing on endpapers, spotting on head of closed edge, chipping and light spotting to dust jacket.. Hard. Good/Good Minus. 4to.

London: Country Life (1937). Hardback in good condition without dust wrapper. First edition. Foxing to cloth but internally paper clean & unmarked.