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Edité par Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., U.S.A., 1929
Vendeur : ShiroBooks, Eureka, CA, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. VG / Fair. 1st Printing of the 1929 Doubleday stated 1sts Edition thus, translated and adapted from the Chinese by Chi-Chen Wang and with preface by Arthur Waley. Book is straight, square, securely bound (although gauze is beginning to show, with 1" separation at top along gutter of half-title), mildly and uniformly age toned, and, except for prior bookshop's small sticker discreetly pasted at bottom of rear pastedown and residual impression of now-removed paper clip on rear endpapers, is otherwise free of markings and blemishes. Cover is clean and bright, with some age fading along the spine (lettering still legible, design still fairly clear), mild chipping along the otherwise straight edges, sharp, mildly rubbed and chipped corners, gently bumped and rubbed joints, headcap and tail, straight hinges and spine, and crisply distinct front board artwork. Only front panel and unclipped flaps (reflecting original USD $3 price) survive, with DJ reconstructed, preserved and encased in protective mylar; lettering and artwork of surviving parts are bright and crisp. (Please see Seller images). Pre-ISBN. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING if any questions or for more information, details or photos.
Vendeur : Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Pays-Bas
Membre d'association : NVVA
London, G. Routledge & Sons, n.d. (1929), 1st impression, XXIV,(4),371 pag., original red cloth with gilt spine.
Edité par Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929
Vendeur : Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 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.
Vendeur : Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Pays-Bas
Membre d'association : NVVA
London, G. Routledge & Sons, n.d. (1929), 1st impression, XXIV,(4),371 pag., contemporary blue halfcalf with raised bands and gilt title on spine. - Calf dried; extremities worn, but tight in binding.
Edité par Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, 1929
Vendeur : Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First Edition. Hardcover, quite good with bookplate, gift inscription, shelf wear.
Edité par George Routledge & Sons, 1929
Vendeur : Braintree Book Rack, Cohasset, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Second impression bound in red cloth; 371pp. Brentano's Paris bookseller's ticket inside the rear cover. The spine is faded and there are some light stains on the cover. The binding is strong and the leaves are in good condition.
Edité par New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, 1929
Vendeur : Chinese Art Books, Baoding, HEBEI, Chine
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo, 21.2*14.8cm, 371pp. Outer covers rubbed and dull, otherwise a very good hardcover with clean pages.
Edité par London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1929
Vendeur : Chinese Art Books, Baoding, HEBEI, Chine
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. UNDATED, but Worldcat has it at 1929, Second Impression. Small octavo, 19*13.5cm, 371pp. Original dust jacket chipped at edges, now protected in mylar. A very good hardcover with clean pages and firm binding. More photos available upon request.
Edité par Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1929
Vendeur : Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First edition. 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 until it was issued in printed form (with the addition of forty chapters) in 1791-92. The book is considered of such importance in the literary heritage of China that an entire field of study, "Redology", is devoted to it.
Edité par Doubleday, New York, 1929
Vendeur : Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : good. First Edition. 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 quirky or not, that's the real 1st edition in English and thus it's worth more money. The rule that "1st editions are always more valuable than reprints of them" has its exceptions, but the exceptions are so few, and the individual reasons for their exception vary, and vary so haphazardly, that all attempts to form guidelines turn into a long climb up Mt. Anthill, and habitually lead to treeing the wrong bobcat. And in the "so few exceptions to the rule department" here's my query: Is Kim Jong-un, the only Asian who tests badly?.
Edité par New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, 1929
Vendeur : Chinese Art Books, Baoding, HEBEI, Chine
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo, 21.2*14.8cm, 371pp. Original dust jacket with small chips at edges, now protected in mylar, otherwis a fine hardcover with clean pages and firm binding. More photos available upon request.
Edité par Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1929
Vendeur : Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, Etats-Unis
Cloth. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st English Lang. ed. 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 emphasizes the central love story, was published in 1929, with a preface by Arthur Waley. Waley said that in the passages which recount dreams "we feel most clearly the symbolic or universal value" of the characters. "Pao Yu", Waley continued, stands for "imagination and poetry" and his father for "all those sordid powers of pedantry and restriction which hamper the artist.". Before this edition, only some of the chapters, couplets and poems were translated. In a 1930 review of Wang's translated version, Harry Clemons of The Virginia Quarterly Review wrote "This is a great novel," and along with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it "ranks foremost" among the novels of classic Chinese literature. ***.
Edité par New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, 1929
Vendeur : Chinese Art Books, Baoding, HEBEI, Chine
Livre Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo, 21.2*14.8cm, 371p. Edges of outer covers rubbed, page edges slightly toned, internally fine. Original dustjacket slightly worn, now protected in mylar. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, 1929
Vendeur : Chinese Art Books, Baoding, HEBEI, Chine
Livre Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo, 21.2*14.8cm, 371p. Inscribed and signed in both English and Chinese by Chi-chen Wang on half-title page and its reverse separately. Cloth-backed boards soiled, corners worn, internal pages clean. Comes in its original dustjacket now protected in mylar. Signed by Author(s).