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4to tan cloth slight moisture wrinkling to front 65 Pages ow pp are clean and unmarked. ow VG/vgdj: 342pp, index, bw full page photos of all tx courthouses

8vo illuswraps, unread Very Good. VG: 48pp, price list with photos of items sold. Each item has provenance and references to publications.

1stednthus; tall8vo Black blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, Yellow end papers with gold designs on the edges and center. French Folded pages. Tight sound and unmarked. Slipcase not included. Slight rubbing and fading to spine ends Ow VG/ndj: 51pp. decorated and hand-illuminated' (title page) by Angelo throughout. This limited edition was not numbered but it was supposedly printed only once. color frontispiece+4 full-page color illuminated illustrations, 51 French fold pages that have yellow deco surrounding each page of text with a design of Persian arabesque printed in light red, Text of the one-act Biblical drama in the English rendering of Douglas, with an introduction by Holbrook Jackson; Salomé was originally published in French in 1893, and was translated into English the following year by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Beardsley; however, some of the artist's designs were withheld or censored, and his illustrations were not published in full until the edition of 1907.… Read More

8vo illluswraps, minor wear covers, a sound paperback copy, PO Jack Wills sign to fep with his underlining and notes in text, ow VG/ndj: x + 411pp, notes, index,.Twelve biographical studies of prominent Chinese who lived between the 6th and 12th centuries and who have in common their devotion to Confucian values. contents: Hans Frankel, T`ang Literati; Denis Twitchett, Lu Chih - Imperial Adviser and Court Official; Igor de Rachewiltz, Yeh-lü Ch`u-ts`ai: Buddhist Idealist and Confucian Statesman; Herbert Franke, Chia Ssu-tao - A Bad Last Minister ?, ASSOCIATION: John E. Wills, Jr. 1936-2017, Longtime USC China Studies Professor was PO of this volume and has signed his full name to fep. Wills was a prolific scholar of works on relations between China and the West during the age of exploration; his book on the Ming-Qing transition period entitled 1688: A Global History. is now a classi