Resultados de búsqueda: The Silent Traveller In New York de Chiang Yee

Applewood Books, 2016. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

John Day Company, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. First Edition. 281 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

NY: John Day, (1950). 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. Another in the author's popular series of early-mid-20th-century travel guides from an Asian perspective, this one representing his first trip across the Atlantic where he brings New York City to life with 120+ of his own pen-and-ink drawings & 17 full-color plates, created using traditional Chinese technique & media, painting on both absorbent paper & sometimes silk. His observations on the life and scenery of America are as oblique and charming as ever, while his experiences round Times Square, along Fifth Avenue, in Chinatown, Greenwich Village, the Bowery, and Harlem are depicted with the postwar charm that would soon be lost forever. In 281 pages with map endpapers, this is the First American Edition (no date in book, but research places it at 1950). Record # 382108

London: Methuem & Co., 1950. Square and unmarked, with toned page edges, sticker scuff to front fly leaf, slightly musty. Full cloth binding. 281pp. Illustrations. Jacket has some edge wear, darkly toned spine. Now in a new mylar cover.. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

JOHN DAY CO. NEW YORK. hardcover. Used; Very Good. nice clean copy

London: Methuen & Co, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardback. A copy that looks very good in a very good dustwrapper but the boards of the book are a bit spotted and the wrapper has some neat internal repairs. The wrapper is not price-clipped and is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.xv,282. 17 colour plates and more than 120 black and white illustrations. Map end-papers.

The John Day Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine. John Day, nd [1950], With a preface by Van Wyck Brooks, 283pp, illustrated with watercolors and black and white drawings within the text by author. 8vo. Cream colored cloth with green titles on front cover and spine. slight discoloration on spine, 2 small smudges on front cover, else fine bright looks unread hardcover.

Good Plus Folder with Fine Plates/No Dustjacket. Circa 1945. 8vo., 16 pp. .

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. First Edition. 281 pages. Dust jacket covered in plastic wrapper over beige cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Minor cracking to front hinge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild warping to front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and to panel edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.