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Hardcover. 1st. Octavo; 128 pages in original black cloth gilt-stamped at spine. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Red cloth. Book is clean and bright with a sturdy binding and only slight edgewear; binding is cracked in some areas but strong; previous owner's bookplate on endpage; dust jacket has multiple small closed and open tears to its surface and corners with medium creasing, otherwise is attractive,especially for its age. Now protected with a mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 7th reprint. The Sayings of Lao Tzu was published as part of the Wisdom of the East series of books , the edition has been translated from the chinese with an introduction by Lionel Giles M.A. The blue/grey boards are lightly grubby , worn and bumped on the corners, and the base of the spine is torn, and is also discoloured, there is a previous owners name in ink on the front endpaper with a date ' Jan 50 ' the spine hinge has been torn where the cover has been forced back between the front paste-down and endpaper, the text block is relatively clean. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only.…

First Edition. [Literary Essay] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.94 [2] [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in red to upper board and spine, cup illustration also blocked in red to upper. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 3/6 to front cover. Toning and spotting throughout with heavier spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, checkmarks and crosses in pencil to publisher's advertisements as well as pencilled writing to rear flyleaf, minor chipping to jacket, 1.5cm tear to crown of spine, small puncture to front jacket joint. Very good. 'The Wisdom of the East' Series started in 1904, and grew out of a desire for a greater understanding of the history and philosophy of the East. In his preface, Weir states that the aim of his book is a produce a 'sound opinion' on 'what manner of man the poet Omar Khayyam was'. T. H. Weir was a was a lecturer in Arabic at Glasgow University.…