Selected Handicrafts From the Palace Museum by The Palace Museum of China

Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1974 Book. Very Good. Cloth. Unpaginated,100 illustrations in color, foreword text and illustration captions in Chinese. English translation in a laid-in stapled booklet. Slight bumping to the top corners. the jacket has tape reinforcements on the spine ends and corners, top edge worn and lightly chipped. Binding is firm, text clean..

Peking, CH: Wen Wu Press, 1974 Wen Wu Press, Peking, China. 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. In Chinese with English translation booklet. Book is tight, Square, and unmarked, but the English translation booklet does have pencil underlining. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelf soiling to boards. DJ: Near Fine; light bumping to top edge and head of spine. White cloth boards and spine with red Chinese characters on the front board. 100 pp 4to. In the new socialist China, arts and crafts are in the process of a profound revolution. To facilitate out understanding of the dialectic development of this historical process and to adhere to Marxist critical appraisal of out cultural heritage, we have selected from the Palace Museum a hundred handicraft pieces- of jade, stone, bamboo, wood, lacquer, gourd, ivory, horn, gold, silver, and enamel from various periods and formed this collection. This book is an aid to those interested in the study of the history of Chinese arts and crafts and their creation. A… Read More

Peking, China: Wen Wu Press, 1974. Discolorations on covers. Soil on back of jacket and on flaps. Discolorations inside jacket.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

Peking, China: Wen Wu Press, 1974. unpaginated, white cloth boards w/ dark red Chinese characters, plus unpaginated stapled booklet; DJ in clear archival cover; book shows foxing to boards, esp. towards top & bottom edges; a couple of small nicks to front decorated endpaper; booklet shows some foxing to paper outer wraps, which also show some wear to fore edge, including a small hole to front wrap; DJ shows wear, tears, chipping & creasing to ends of spine & folds, esp. to head of spine & to ends of front flap fold; a little light soil to rear panel / Separate booklet, in both English and Chinese, is laid in at the front of the book. Illustrated with color photos of 100 items, including jade, stone, bamboo, wood, lacquer, gourd, ivory, horn, gold and silver. There is usually one, but occasionally two, items to a page. There are three pages of text at the front of the book, as well as a list of the picyured items at the rear, all in Chinese/. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good +. 4to -… Read More

Wen Wu Press, Peking China. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. In Chinese, but includes English-language pamphlet with brief notes and catalogue. Binding is solid and pages clean and bright. Great photos. White buckram cover and boards with only minimal wear. Dustjacket is worn at edges, especially front corners, but not badly. ; 100 pages .

Peking: Wen Wu, 1974. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). In chinese with English pamphlet at front. Profuse color images. Square 4to, cream cloth, dust wrapper. Peking: Wen Wu Press, (1974). Very good (+).<br/><br/>

Peking: White Lotus Press, 1974. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Selected Handicrafts from The Collection of the Palace Museum, The