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Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Translated by Rex Warner. Multicolor yellow-gold-green wraps clean and unmarked, showing a Persian relief depicting archers from the Palace of Darius I, in the Louvre, Paris. Light wear to spine head and heel. Rear cover has light wear around all edges. Glued binding tight, solid and square. Former owner name on title page. Pages evenly toned-light to moderate- very clean, no markings of any kind. To set the scene of the Persian Expeditioni in the beginning of the 4th century B. C., we find Xenophon living in Athens, an Athenian in a city that was seen as the centre of Greek culture, and had lately been the greatest imperial power in the Mediterranean, but totally defeated in war by Sparta and her allies. Sparta is supreme now. Xenophon wants to help Cyrus, the pretender to the Persian throne, over throw… Read More

New York: Alfred A Knop, 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First American Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal library stamps, in Very Good Condition. Clean, otherwise unmarked book, tight and solid binding, pages in Fine Condition. A compelling memoir by a young Chinese journalist who, in the 1980s, wrote a script for a TV series that probed the depths of Chinese beliefs and values so deeply that it stirred an intellectual debate on China-he was a leader of the democratic movement in China. Then, havIng survived the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he became one of the regime's five most wanted criminals and was smuggled out of China. After two years he was able to have his family brought to America. After four years in America, thinking the worst was behind them, a terrible car accident brought personal tragedy. An extraordinarily moving memoir. 329 pages. 7.8" x… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Soho Press, 2005. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. A mystery in the world of Shanghai--with clean & bright, unmarked pictorial wrappers. Tight and square glued binding. Internals as new. Small, light crease to upper corner. Meet Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau--scandal in the business world of Shanghai, murder of a novelist--Inspector Chen is on the job! 307 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. 2005, Soho Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Clean and unmarked, tight & solid book with slight wear around cover. Pages clean, no markings of any kind, toned. In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painte Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer but six weeks later a second exam revealed there was no cancer--a reprieve. Also, he was faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a prison farm. He then fled Beijing and began a 15,000 kilometer into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this voyage is "Soul Mountain". 510 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2000, HarperCollins, New York. First published in 1990 as "Lingshan"in Taiwan by Lianjing Chubanshe.

USA: Harper Perennial, 2001. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureClean and unmarked cover with slight wear to extremities, solid and tight binding. Pages lightly toned, clean, some text underlining and marks mostly in first part of book. The author was a political refugee, a long way from Beijing, when he wrote this partially autobiographical novel He tells of his past and of and the impact of the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 70s on the human psyche, as he tries to find peace and freedom. xi+510 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2001, Harper Perennial, USA

New York: Harper Perennial, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Gao Xingjian was the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2000. This Trade Paperback is in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Some pages remain uncut on the top edge. Black and purple wrappers are clean and unmarked, illustration by Gao Xingjian and Flip Chalfant. Soundly bound, square. Former owner name on first page. Internals as new. This is an epic voyage of discovery, the story of the author's 15,000 kilometer voyage into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in Southwest China. He made this journey after being diagnosed with lung cancer, then a second exam revealed no cancer. He was facing a threat of imprisonment in the repressive cultural environment in China at the time, and fled Bejiing to begin his journey into the mountains. 510 pages. 8.2 x 5.4 inches. Harper Perennial, USA 2001.

U.S.A: Agora Health Books, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Second Edition. Translated from the original Japanese book published by Houken Publishing in 1993. Large Trade Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Yellow illustrated heavy paper cover, very clean and unmarked with light wear to lower front corner. Soundly bound, square. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Illustrations of breathing exercises on nearly every page. Explains the ancient healing techniques of ki-kou, a secret system of Chinese breathing exercises that has been used by traditional Chinese doctors for thousands of years to heal and prevent everything from colds to cancer. 156 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. 2003, Agora Health Books, USA .

England: Penguin Classics, 1973. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Penguin Classics, 1973. 9th Printing of First Edition (this translation first published 1973). Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. This book is also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber". This is Volume 1 of 5 volumes. Translated by David Hawkes. "The Story of the Stone"(c.1760) is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. A masterpiece that recreates a world that would otherwise be lost. 544 pages. 8v0. 1973, Penguin Cllassics. ISBN10: 0140442936, ISBN13: 9780140442939