Shapiro sidney translator (8 resultados)

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. bilingual edition. 200 pages. Chinese language. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xix, 204pp, b/w plates Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xix, 204pp, b/w plates Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket in mylar cover. xix, 204pp, b/w plates. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foreign Languages Press; Peking. 1964. First Edition Hardcover- yellow cloth on brown backstop in VERY GOOD Condition w/ front board showing some creasing in VERY GOOD Dustjacket under mylar showing minor edge wear, small chip off top rear panel. INSCRIBED, dated in year of publication & placed in Peking by the translator Sidney Shapiro (1915-2014) on front free endpaper: "To J. M.- With all best wishes- Sidney Shapiro- Peking- December, 1964," otherwise INTERIOR very clean. LAID-IN: "List of Principal Characters" card. Sidney Shapiro aka Shabo Li or Sha Bo Li, was a Brooklyn Jew who in 1947 moved to China & was responsible for some of the most important Chinese-English translation work of the past 50 years, including some of the first work to come out of New China. Shapiro was one of only a handful of Westerners to be granted citizenship by the PRC; and the man who faced down death as a Western intellectual working in the thick of the Cultural Revolution. A book signed by him as translator is quite rare. Suitable for gifting, collection or archive. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Ix, 559; v, 561-1133; iv, 1135-1605 pages. Illustrated with plates throughout. Octavo. Brown and black title pages in each vol. Cream dust jackets with sketches in brown, titles in green, kraft embossed slipcases. Dust jackets have very minor shelf wear, bit of creasing, short tear at top edges, one has a small faint stain on the front, one has chip at base of spine. Slip cases have normal wear. Books are clean and bright, first volume has some light pencil underlining in the introduction, last volume has small neat notation of when the reader finished reading, otherwise clean and unmarked. A very nice complete first edition set of this famous novel from China's Sung Dynasty. Heavy for overseas shipping.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1605 pages.…