THE BOOKS OF THE EMPEROR WU TI by Meckauer, Walter - 1930

Minton, Balch and Company, New York, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 430 g.; (6), 5-216 pages, last page blank. Yellow coloured cloth covered boards with green Chinese calligraphy to the top left-hand corner of the front panel and green titles to the backstrip. Green coloured tint to the top text block edge. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Browning, rubbing and foxing to the book edges and book panels. Sunning, causing noticeable groundless, to the backstrip. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and Browning to the internal text. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and the top right-hand corner of the front free endpaper shows insect damage. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the free front endpaper. The remains of the sticker can be seen to the top left-hand corner of the front paste-down. A book first published in German and translated by J.J. Saville Garner. A novel set in ancient China and about the life and… Read More

New York: Minton, Balch & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 215 pages; Yellow cloth printed in green. Dust jacket is price clipped, with some darkening on the spine with light soiling and a bit of edgewear on the spine. .

London: Martin Secker, 1930. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First UK Edition.. 214pp. HARDCOVER Clean internally. No inscriptions. Some discoloration to cloth. Light spots to prelims. Includes supply & fitting of correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.

MINTON, BALCH AND COMPANY. 1931. Near Fine. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Near fine in a Vg.+ or better dj. (Trace of faint soiling at fore edge. A few spots on covers. Several tiny edge nicks & a few equally tiny chips at corners & spine ends ) Charming account of an imaginary China by a German author. Awarded the Jugend Prize. .

New York: Minton, Balch and Company, 1931. First US edition, first printing . Hardcover. Translated from the German by J.J. Saville Garner. This novel, steeped in rich oriental fantasy, is the story of Shu Yee, a merchant in Nanking, who, having attained material success, sets his heart upon acquiring the magic books o f the Emperor Wu Ti, which hold the key to all knowledge. Not in Blieler. Very good in very good dust jacket with toned spine panel and tiny chipping at the corners of the spine panel ends. An attractive copy.

THE BOOKS OF THE EMPEROR WU TI, Minton, Balch & Co., 1931, first American edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper with some light dust-soil to the dust-wrapper spine. An Oriental fantasy in which the protagonist sets about to steal the Emperors magic books which hold the key to all knowledge.

London: Martin Secker, 1930. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st UK edition, translated from the German. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and Chinese characters to front board. Spine very lightly darkened, (hardly noticeable). A fine copy, clean and bright throughout. Dust jacket is price clipped and darkened to spine. Overall a very good clean and attractive pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy indeed.