HARGETT, JAMES M

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xviii + 258pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2018

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China imperial Chinese

SHAUGHNESSY, EDWARD L

Octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, v + [3] + 287pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine, sl chafing to boards)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006

KEYWORDS: early China Chinese literature texts antiquity Qin dynasty Han paleography

PORTER, BILL & PINE, RED (Trans)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & orange lettering to spine, illus prelims, viii + 387pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine lightly warped/faded & creased, light rubbing & curling to wrapper edges, sl soiling to wrappers & page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature literary history poetry poets

BONNER, JOEY

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + [3] + 314pp + catalogue to rear, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor soiling/staining to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Wang Kuo-wei literature literary China Chinese

OWEN, STEPHEN

Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, x + 294pp, Near FINE (sl rubbing/bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature poetry poems verse Meng Chiao Han Yu

PETERSON, WILLARD J

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + [2] + 228pp, VG+ (light fading to spine & board edges, minor staining to edges of rear board, sl bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history literature 17th seventeenth century I-chih Fang literary

CLARKE, SHARON

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xix + 292pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear, minor tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1996

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary biography memoir Sumner Locke Elliott

KINRA, RAJEEV

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, ilus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xix + 371pp, VG (spine cocked & lightly creased, light creasing to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history literature literary Chandar Bhan Brahman

HOLROYD, MICHAEL

FIRST EDITION THUS, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxv + 780pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor creasing to spine, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 778-779) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, sm adhesive label to spine, sl tanning)

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS literature literary biography memoir Lytton Strachey

HINTON, DAVID (Trans)

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & grey lettering to spine, 575pp, illus, VG+ (1cm scuff to head of spine, light fading to spine, sl creasing to wrapper edges, light soiling to rear wrapper, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Counterpoint 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese classic literature poetry poems verse English translation

WELCH, DENTON

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, Near FINE (sl tanning to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading to spine area)

PUBLISHER: Enitharmon Press 2004

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VASILAKAKOS, JOHN

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & grey lettering to spine, x + 302pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Connor Court 2013

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Christos Tsiolkas

MASS, LAWRENCE D (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 400pp, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, sl soiling to full title page, occasional folding to top page corners) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1997

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ALDRICH, ROBERT

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PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2012

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ASHMORE, ROBERT

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, brown glossy boards, beige lettering to spine, xii + 345pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges & rear ep, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2010

KEYWORDS: Tao Qian history literature literary classics

GUNTER, SUSAN E (Ed) & JOBE, STEVEN H (Ed)

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, green cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, printed half title page, xxiii + 249pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising/rubbing to extrems, sl tape staining to board edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (tidy library labels/markings, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light fading to spine, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2002

KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Henry James literature literary autobiographical

PHIPPS, MEE-MEE

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR Super octavo, light card wrappers, red lettering to cover and spine, VI + 282pp, VG+ (light soiling to page edges, sl chipping to upper page edges, light bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Seriously Red Books 2013

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WODEHOUSE, P G

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PUBLISHER: Hutchinson Heinemann 2022

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KUNDERA, MILAN & ASHER, LINDA (trans)

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PUBLISHER: Harper 2015

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HASSALL, ANTHONY J

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PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 1990

KEYWORDS: Australian literature criticism Randolph Stow