One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems de Arthur Waley - 1928

Constable, 1943. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1943. Reprinted. 168 pages. Dust jacket over yellow cloth. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate foxing, tanning and scuffing overall.

Constable, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. Reprinted. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Constable & Co Ltd, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1942. Reprinted. 168 pages. Cream dust jacket over yellow 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. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Constable & Co Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1945. Reprinted. 168 pages. Cream dust jacket over yellow 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. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Staining to both panels. Foxing overall.

Constable and Co Limited, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1939. Reprinted. 168 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over yellow cloth boards. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Constable & Co Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1939. Reprinted. 168 pages. Yellow dust jacket over yellow 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. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Medium tanning to spine and edges. Pencil inscription to front flap. Wear marks overall.

Constable and Co.Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. Reprinted. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Constable, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 1936. Reprinted. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow 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.

Constable & Co Ltd, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1962. New Edition. 129 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to front panel. Wear marks overall.

Paperback / softback. New.