Search Results: China from Berthoff Books

Penguin Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 527 pages, with index, bibliography, glossary, chronological table, maps, list of the 329 b&w illutrations. Part of the Pelican History of Art; first paperback edition, based on third edition (1968); first published 1956. Two sections: Sickman on Painting and Sculpture, Soper on Architecture. Trade paperback, creases to spine, light shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.

Anchor Press Doubleday, 1973. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 346 pages, with index and Select Bibliography. A Doubleday, Anchor Original, translated from French by W.J.F. Jenner, French first edition was from Editions du Seuil 1970. Author was a French diplomat, posted in China 1965-68. From the back cover: "This lucid analysis is an attempt to determine whether or not there was, in fact, a 'revolution' in Communist China in the late 1960s. . . This is an exceptional work because it is an eye-witness account, supplemented by research of the unofficial press that flourished in China during the period." Mass-market paperback, moderate creases and soil to wraps, 1/4" tear in front wrap along fore-edge and continuing as smaller tear to front matter pages, 1/4" split at front bottom of spine, edges and end papers soiled and age-toned, binding tight. Underscoring, margin brackets, and or marginal note on approximately six pages, all in Introduction and Chapter 1.

Stanford University Press, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 254 pages, with index, illustrated with several full-page b&w photos, a map, and the floor plan of a house. Book originally published 1945. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, foxing to fore-edge spills over onto some page margins. Name of former owners written in pencil on inside front cover, light pencil underscoring and marginalia on approximately 80 pages; many of the marks are only small check marks in margin.

Penguin Books, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 350 pages, with Chronology, Index (including Wade-Giles and Pinyin transliteration of Chinese names), map. Trade paperback, corners bumped, edges, end papers and page margins age-toned. Name of former owner on inside front cover, underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 15 pages.

Stanford University Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 129 pages. Introduction by Marjory Wolf. Trade paperback, crease to spine, rubbed along spine, other shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, binding firm, rear end papers stained tan from newspaper clippings, one of which - NYT obituary of Pruitt, 1985 - is paperclipped to rfep. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil margin bracket observed on one page, notes written on inside back cover.

ICM Artists, 1980. Soft cover. Good. 34 pages (including covers, which are numbered). Souvenir Book for 1980 North America Tour of the Peking Opera Theatre. B&w and full-page color photos. Large pamphlet (9-1/4" x 12") stapled in stiff card wraps, light shelf wear, heavier at top of fold where there is creasing and a 1" tear, rubbed along spine. Pages unmarked.

Metropolitan Museum of Art : Ballantine Books, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 192 pages. A combined discussion and catalogue of the ancient objects lent by the People's Republic of China for exhibition at five American museums. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello, director of the MMA. Includes map of archeological sites, b&w illustrations, and 125 pages of color plates, as well as a catalogue at the end. The 50 pages of text cover eras from the first half of the second millennium B.C. through the first Qin Emperor's Terracotta Army c. 221-206 B.C. Soft cover catalogue, 8-5/8" x 11", printed on glossy paper a bit of shelf wear, rubbed along spine. Pages unmarked.

Monthly Review Press, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 112 pages. First printing. A positive view of the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China, written soon after the events, by the author of Fanshen (his account of land reform in a Chinese village after the 1949 victory of the Communists). 112 pages, shelf wear, crease to spine, tan stain on inside cover/ffep from laid-in newspaper clipping, binding tight, marginalia in pencil on approximately 20 pages. The clipping, an NYT Book Review review of Fanshen by Benjamin Schwartz, conveys with this book.