Fairservis, Walter A.MareMagnum
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1971Ex-institutional library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Text block and boards both have sharp corners, no edge or corner wear, binding is very tight. Dust jacket is worn with multiple small tears and chipping at edges, heavy scuffing, no large or open tears. 160 pages on heavy paper with color plates on glossy paper. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Contents include costume of Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine, Near East, Iran, (Persia) Afghanistan, Central Asia, India and Pakistan, High Borderlands, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, tibet, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, Southeast Siberia, Manchuria, Hokkaido, Bonins & Siberia with b&w illustrations of typical clothing and then several full-page museum quality color photos of examples of actual clothing for MOST of the above regions.
1982A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 166 pages. Many photos and illustrations. Tears on dust jacket.
2007Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 239 pages with several pages of b&w photos.
2000A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages. Slight edge wear.
1992A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes 40 ink drawings. Slight wear to cover.
9 5/8"wide x 12 3/4"tall. Full cloth boards (raw silk?) with gilt Chinese characters. 135 pages. Full color prints; 140 printed pages of color paintings with bilingual Chinese and English text. Dust jacket worn around edges with small tears.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Catalogue of color and black and white rubbings. Text in English and Chinese. No date given; circa 1980. 8 5/8"w x 8 184"h.
2002A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Many color photographs of Yonghegong temple in Beijing with accompanying text. 8 1/4"w x 81/4"h. Slight foxing to endpapers.
1980Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 334 pages.
2012Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Covers show light shelf wear only, binding is solid, square and tight and text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Book shows very little wear. A huge number of color photographs, text in Chinese and English, 300 pages.
1979Black cloth covers have sharp corners with lower back worn. A little fading at upper and lower spine edge, otherwise very clean with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top spine, is price clipped, has edge wear, chipping at hinge edges; no tears greater than 1/2". The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
1979Black cloth covers have sharp corners, fading at lower spine, a llittel along the bottom edge. Very light scuffing to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top edge with numerous open tears, none larger than an inch. Jacket at lower spine is chipped away at hinges, general chipping and wear, not price clipped. The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
1980Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Exhibition catalog for show at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 8/2/80 -- 9/3/80. Oblong format, 11" wide with 58 color and b&w full page prints depicting the historical and gradual development of Hong Kong harbor and city as recorded in painting and drawing. Descriptions in Chinese and English on the L. page with the print on the R. Text/interior is spotless and printed on heavy paper.
1993Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square in dark grey cloth with embossed character on the cover. Covers have sharp corners, except for lower corner of front cover is bumped. This is the only blemish to the book. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 265 pages with standard format being four photos on R. page with descriptions on L. page. This is sometimes varied. Contents includes Glass, Jade, Quartz & chalcedony, Other stones, Organic materials, Metals, Ceramics, Enamels, Inside-painted, Accessories. With Forword, Preface, Reigns of the Qing Dynasty and Selected bibliography.
1982247 pages with b&w illustrations with movement lines on nearly every page. Chapters include Fists, palms, hooks and claws, Leg snapping (cutting and smashing, two feet kick, patting and locking ), Strength boxing, Hand to hand fight boxing, etc. Text is in Chinese and English.
2009Book is in excellent condition. New. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Text is in English & Chinese. B&W photos, 183 pages. Sticker has been removed from half title page.
1937Small format hardback with pictorial cover on paper-covered boards. 6 7/8"w x 5 7/8"h. Unpaginated; approx. 60 pages. Previous owner's name inside. Many b&w photos (two colored neatly by previous owner). Pages show darkening around the edges.
1195A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes pamphlet from tour. Text in Chinese and English. 60 pages. 9 3/4"w x 9 3/4"h. Essays: "The Transcendent Realism of Li Zijian" by Dennis Wepman; "A Dinner with Poetry and Intelligence - My Impressions about Li Zijian's New Oil Paintings of 1994" by Xio Liang Zeng. Color reproductions.
1970Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 74 pates. "The most thorough study yet available of the systematic commutation of taxes-in-kind and labor-service into silver payments in the late Ming period, this monograph has an important background value for any study of the growth of money economy in modern China."
2008Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
1983Exhibition catalog for the show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in '83 and the Vancouver Art Gallery in '85. Unpaginated, about 55 pages with a Historical Background with sections: Porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662 - 1722), .. of the Yongzheng period (1728 - 35), the Qianlong period (1736 - 95), followed by 188 photos of examples of the various types, most in b&w. Bibliography at back. Covers show very light shelf wear only, interior/text is clean and free of marking of any kind.
2000Book is in excellent condition, one page is dog-eared as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Incredible story of the wholesale butchery by the Japanese military invading the civilian occupied city of Nanking and the Nazi sympathizers who acted in a medical capacity to save large numbers of people.
1995Exhibition catalog in excellent condition in every respect from the show of the same name at the Publisher's gallery from June to October 1994. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 110 pages with deep red end papers, heavily illustrated with large full color prints of the sculptural pieces that make the show, usually two pieces per page. Text in English and Chinese.
2015Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 323 pages with a few with b&w photos.
1976Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 131 pp., illus. mostly b&w, some color. Cataloge of an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in cooperation with the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C. Size: 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. 141 paintings illustrated and described.
