Foreword by arthur waley (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. DJ is faded, discolored, and worn along the top edge. Bookcover and endpages have some minor foxing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A very good copy of the hard cover edition in a very good (not price-clipped) dust-jacket. Faint underlining in pencil on approx. two dozen pages, else unmarked ;the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Prometheus Books edition. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. A clean, square, tight copy. Cover has bump to one corner [but NO pages are affected]. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with about 100 photos and line drawings. Introduction by Wolfram Eberhard. The first book in English to fully explore this 1000 year-old Chinese custom, LOTUS LOVERS examines the origins of the practice; efforts by missionaries and others to extinguish it; the peculiar sexual fascination that the tiny foot, and the resultant "Willow Walk" held for many Chinese men; the physiological effects of foot binding; etc. Includes interviews with women whose feet were bound in childhood, and their firsthand accounts of the suffering it caused. Also has translations from Chinese erotic literature extolling the beauty of the "Golden Lotus" -- a poetic metaphor for the tiny bound foot. This is the first Prometheus printing, with complete number row (54321) on the copyright page, but it is actually a reprint of a book originally published in 1966. Contains a Foreword and ten chapters, e.g. Origin and Presence; Emancipation Movements; Lotus Lovers; Wondrousness of the Lotus; Secret Chronicle of the Lotus Interest; Reckless and Cruel Treatment of the Drunken Lotus; The Tiny Foot in Truth and Fiction; Painful History of the Lotus Hooks; Ladies of the Bound-Foot Era; etc. + Two appendices. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black leatherette, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Footbinding for women in China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length.". First Prometheus Books edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 352pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. 352pp, b/w illustrations. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Good used hardback copy in slightly shelfworn dustjacket. 210pp, foldout map at rear. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Asian Edition. "The first complete history in a Western language of a custom which seems utterly barbarous to the West, but which persisted for a thousand years in China." - dust jacket. "A history of probably the most singular way in which women made themselves attractive to men. Has much of the esoteric-erotic fascination of the convention." - Virginia Kirkus' Service. 352 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. Illustrated endpapers. Contents clean, tight and unmarked in original peach cloth. Moderate foxing to edges. Very heavy wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An uncommon issue of this disturbing but fascinating study.; Dust Jacket; Sm 4to. Illustrated by Harley, Mary Jane (illustratore).…