junkman smiles de worcester (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Account of the Chinese junk and the way in which the junkmen and fishermen lived in mid-20th century China. Yelllow cloth with gilt title on red spine label. Light wear to head of spine. Contents clean and very good with black and white endpaper maps and black and white photographs and illustrations. Moderately edgeworn color pictorial dust jacket with edge tears at head and base of spine in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. . 1959, bright clean copy, with some wear to dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Cloth Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. First Edition. Yellow cloth hard boards in unclipped dust jacket. Pp 254. A square, tight, clean copy; a few faint foxspots to spine; contents bright and clean; previous owner's name to endpaper: 'Capt. B.C. Finch R.N.R. [rtd]'. The jacket spine has a few foxspots, small repair head and some edgewear but is basically sound and doing its job. Image available upon request.

Hardcover. Condición: Used: Acceptable. Hardback with dust jacket, book clean, page edges shelf dust on one page tiny bit of mark to page edge, jacket some scuffs and marks and a little scuffy.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condición: Muy bien. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. (Viajes. China). London, Chatto and Windus, 1959. Mapa en guardas. 254 p. 1 h. Dibujos b/n en el texto. Láminas f.t. con fotos b/n. 8º mayor. Cartoné editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Primera edición. First edition. En inglés.

Condición: Very Good. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: no dj. Junkman Smiles, The. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Original Yellow Cloth,with red label onspineillustrated by The Author This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Britain/UK; 1950s; Inventory No: 41112.

With illustrations by the Author. London: Chatto and Windus, 1959 8vo. 254pp. 6 plates, numerous text illustrations, end-paper maps, dw. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth with the dust-wrapper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B].

First Edition. The author served for many years in the Chinese Maritime Customs service, prior to the Communist revolution, surveying China's great rivers. In the process he developed a deep expertise on the Chinese inland watercraft known in the West as junks. The present volume details his rich affection not only for the native vessels and their crew, but for Chinese life in general, in all of its abundance, colour and variety.The book is in very good condition with very clean pages, a very tight copy. The accompanying dustjacket is somewhat in poor condition with discolouration and tears at the top as well as tears at the bottom, the spine of the dustjacket is also very discoloured.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 254pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., maps, Author served in the River Inspectorate of Chinese Maritime Customs. Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Professor V. D. Tate. With every good wish from the author. G. R. G. Worcester. Windlesham, June 1966". Accompanying the inscription is Worcester's red Chinese seal. Vernon D. Tate (1909-1989) served as the librarian at the United States Naval Academy between 1956 and 1967 and continued as the institution's archivist until 1969. He arranged for the Naval Institute Press to publish a new edition of Worcester's monumental Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze in 1972 and reviewed it for the New York Times. Following naval service in China and the Middle East during the First World War, Worcester (1890-1969) spent the next thirty years helping survey the Yangtze river and open it for steam navigation to a distance almost 1,500 miles from the sea. This autobiographical work, written after he had retired to Windlesham, Surrey, describes his lifetime of experiences in China. "Everything dealt with in this book concerns the old China, the China that has passed away; the wheelbarrow and sedan chair have given up the unequal struggle with the diesel engine and the jet aircraft, the graceful sail has been driven out by the unromantic funnel, and the China that I knew has gone for ever" (p. 12). Octavo. Frontispiece showing a Fuzhou junk, 6 plates in text. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on a red ground at at foot, red vignette of junk, map endpapers. With illustrated dust jacket. Light soiling to cloth, a little foxing internally; unclipped jacket, light soiling and foxing, a few nicks, closed tear on front panel: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.