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Editore: Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1978
Da: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo; First edition; Volumes 1-2 [of 3] only, each in slipcase; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spines, illustrated, blue print; Slipcases are brown cardboard, tears to corners and front edge of vol. II slipcase; DJs have light edgewear, but are clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and blue paper to boards, slight wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text blocks have red ribbon place marker, clean and tight; 2 vols. (599, 701 pages), illustrated (color plates). 1355025. FP New Rockville Stock.
Editore: Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1992
Da: Transformer, Glasgow, Regno Unito
Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Tai Tun-Pang (illustratore). 2nd Printing. Vol.2 only of the 3-volume unabridged edition. 2nd print 1992 of the 1978 edition. About Mint. 8 inches. Black papercovered boards, black linen spine with red and gilt decoration, title on front in white characters. Pale green and gilt epp, red silk marker, blue tops. Glossy pictorial jacket, Chinese garden painting wraparound illustration. And in its own cardboard slipcase, with brown titles and decoration to spine. Illustrated with colour plates. 701pp. Hong Lou Meng, sometimes entitled The Dream of the Red Chamber, and sometimes The Story of the Stone, an 18th centuy classic of Chinese literature, the family saga and social panorama of the Ch'ing dynasy, is most famous for its depiction of the elaborate and beautiful classical Chinese garden created within its pages, whose (putative) original may still be seen in Beijing. 1.1kg before packaging. (China, Literature, Dream, Red Mansions, Red Chamber, Story Stone) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.