The Chinese Translations.
New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original beige cloth. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. A volume from The Works of Witter Bynner. It includes The Jade Mountain and The Way of Life according to Laotzu.
New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original beige cloth. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. A volume from The Works of Witter Bynner. It includes The Jade Mountain and The Way of Life according to Laotzu.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1972. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, silvergilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w top edges very slightly rubbed. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. 120 photographs taken between 1947 and 1967 in countries including China, Japan, India, Iran, Burma, Indonesia and Mongolia.
London: William Heinemann, 1903. 8vo. First edition. Original dark grey woven cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with a life buoy device in gilt on the upper cover. Publisher's blind-stamped 'WH' monogram on rear board. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. First issue with two pages of press opinions.....
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. D/w price-clipped and slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. The author went in search of tribal India. His publisher promoted this book as the conclusion of the trilogy (begun with A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth) about South-east Asia.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a small sticker mark on the front flap. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A volume from the Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. 8vo. Third impression. First published in one volume in 1935. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Six volumes in one.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a short closed tear at the head of the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first volume in the Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1950. 8vo. Second edition. First published in 1921. Two black and white photographic plates. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. This completes the history begun in Traders and Nabobs.