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Birlinn, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Country Life, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1946. Reprinted. 67 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with tanning on end pages. Small pencil inscription to front free end paper. Mild foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, with areas of loss to spine and creasing and has split in half. Tape repair to spine. Visible tanning overall.

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: 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.

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

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

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 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 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: 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.

The Silent Traveller. A Chinese Artist in Lakeland
YEE, Chiang
Country Life Limited, London, 1946, hardback with dust wrapper, GD/gd, boards pale green/black, two tone frontispiece in addition to a further 12 two tone plates, 67 pp.
Boards gently edge worn, pale marks to bottom edge of both front and back boards, neat inscription to front free end paper, sound tight binding, pages lightly tanned with foxing in some areas, edges of text block dust stained, flap shadows to end papers. Appreciable shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), tanned and grubby, foxed, previous repairs made with brown tape, price not clipped, now protected by acid-free archive film.
TRAVEL, THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT, ILLUSTRATED, CHINESE ARTIST, TRAVELOGUE, VISITS TO MAJOR LAKES, OBSERVATIONS, COMMENTARY ON LIFE AND CULTURE
46793 TRAVEL/LAKES £26.50

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.

Country Life, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1938. Reprint. 67 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Sepia illustrations throughout. Presumed signed by the author to front endpaper. Extensive notes in pen to front pastedown, reverse of front endpaper, half title page, and reverse of frontispiece. Pages have light tanning with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, slightly exposing netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Heavy sun marks to all surfaces with faint dust marks. Clipped jacket split in two pieces with loss to edges and spine. Visible tanning and foxing overall. Faint dust marks overall.