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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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

Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Richard Powers (front cover). Additional Authors: Judith Merril, Richard Matheson, Poul Anderson, Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins), Katherine MacLean, Wilmar H. Shiras, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Vincent Benet (illustratore). ----------vintage paperback. Likely produced for the Canadian market, as it has a 39¢ cover price, vs. the usual 35¢ US price (no internal indication that this is a Canadian printing). An excellent 356-page science fiction anthology, reprinting still classic stories about children (some of them not nice at all). Faint spine crease, tiny split to spine bottom, edgewear, at least a VG copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good Minus. Unpaginated. Stapled Wraps. No Date. Spine edge of wraps have many small creases. Wraps are lightly sunned along the edges. Wraps have light soiling. Tips are bumped. Spine ends are rubbed. Fore edge of rear wrap has a few small bumped spots. Text is unmarked. Paperback. Very Good Minus.

Paperback. Condizione: Used; Very Good. ***Simply Brit*** Welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. Second printing. EU4.

1st edition. Selection of the best stories of fantasy and science fiction, new and old. Bright crisp clean tight copy. Subscription card bound-in. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4, 130 pp. Fine w faint datestamp on cover else unmarked. Pulp magazine in color illus wraps (Chesley Bonestell).

Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condizione: NEW.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Mudge-Marriott, Eric (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 14 of the 18 stories in the US edition which was published in 1951 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1951' by Frederick Fell. Boards have very slight bumping to the corners. Page edges are lightly browned with some brown spotting to the top edges and a tiny dark mark to the bottom edges. Endpapers are browned but pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has slight edge wear and discolouration to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Eric Mudge-Marriott. First printing.

Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes. Volume One: xxvi + 825 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, maps and diagrams. Volume Two: pages 829-1625. Index. Glossary. Illustrated. Introduction by L.K. Little.

First Edition. Library copies. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. The set remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes; 26 cm. Contents: V. 1. 1868-1890 -- v. 2. 1891-1907. Subjects: Hart, Robert 1835-1911; Campbell, James Duncan 1833-1907; Chinese Maritime Customs; Customs administration China History Sources; Customs administration; China; China Commerce Great Britain History 19th century ; Sources. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Library copies. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. The set remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes; 26 cm. Contents: V. 1. 1868-1890 -- v. 2. 1891-1907. Subjects: Hart, Robert 1835-1911; Campbell, James Duncan 1833-1907; Chinese Maritime Customs; Customs administration China History Sources; Customs administration; China; China Commerce Great Britain History 19th century ; Sources. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Two volume set. 26 x 18.5 cm. xxvi 1625pp. Illustrated, maps. Bound into green cloth. Previous owner's name stamp to front and rear pastedowns as well as foredges. Portrait of Hart taped to front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Huge red hardcover in excellent, unmarked, near-pristine condition: slight handling, pages slightly age-yellowed, [4.6 lbs]. Book.

2 Vols., 8vos, 1337pp. As new hardback set in shrink wrappers.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 1, No. 1. Edited by H. L. Gold. Cover art by David Stone for "Time Quarry" (pt. 1 of 3) by Clifford D. Simak. Also includes "The Stars Are the Styx" by Theodore Sturgeon; "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean; "Third from the Sun" by Richard Matheson; "Later than You Think" by Fritz Leiber; "The Last Martian" by Fredric Brown; "Darwinian Pool Room" by Isaac Asimov. Features: "Editor's Page: For Adults Only"; "Forecast"; "Galaxy's Five-Star Shelf" by Groff Conklin. Contest Article: "Flying Saucers: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?" by Willy Ley. Illustrated by David Stone, Calle, Paul Pierre, and others. Tanning; edge and corner nicks and wear; minor soiling; not quite square. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Two Volumes.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. 1975. Two volume total: 1625pp. Photo Plates. 20 photographs. Introduction by L.K. Little. Label of previous owner: H.T. Wong. HIST DEPT. E WASH UNIV. CHENEY WA. 99004. Robert Hart's contribution to the commercial stability of China, through the efficient collection of taxes and duties, was outstanding. As Inspector General, he was in charge of Chinese Maritime Customs. Martin Lynn recounts the experiences of Robert Hart employed by the Chinese in the dying phases of the Qing Dynasty. This article first appeared in SACU's China Now magazine in 1988 Robert Hart was witness to many of the major events of late nineteenth century Chinese history, a period when the country was wrestling with the twin problems of foreign intervention and the need to modernise. He was to live through four foreign invasions of China, the Taiping Rebellion of 1852-64, the Boxer rising of 1900, the attempted partition of the country by the West and the eventual crumbling of power of the last of the great Chinese imperial dynasties, the Qing. An Ulsterman, born in Portadown in 1835, he arrived in China aged only 19 as an assistant and interpreter in the British consular service. After service in Hong Kong, Ningbo and Guangzhou (Canton) he resigned in 1859 and became Deputy Commissioner of Customs at Canton. For the rest of his career until his death at the age of 76 in 1911 he was to be an employee of the Chinese government. He received a Chinese peerage in 1889 and a British Knighthood in 1893. In 1863 Hart became Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a position he was to hold for the next 48 years. The Customs Service grew out of the 'treaty port' system, with its foreign privileges and extra-territorial rights, that were imposed on China by the Western powers during the mid-nineteenth century. Its function was to regulate trading relations between China and the Western powers and to collect customs revenue for the Chinese government. Although a department of the Chinese government, the Customs Service was almost entirely staffed with foreigners in its upper echelons. Its Inspector General was always a Westerner. In collecting revenue for Beijing however, the Customs Service provided the government with a regular income independent of interference by the provincial authorities, thereby strengthening the dynasty's position against its rivals. But by the end of the century, China fell more and more into debt due to the indemnities it was forced to pay following defeats by foreign powers, as well as loans raised abroad. Much of the Customs revenue came to be pledged to outsiders for many years in advance. Custom-made post The Customs Service, and Hart's role in it, illustrates the West's influence in China in the late nineteenth century, with China's independence slowly being eroded by outsiders. But it also illuminates China's first steps in modernisation: it was the first department run on western lines. By the turn of the century it employed nearly 18,000 Chinese and 1,500 foreigners. It was also responsible for China's western-style Postal Service, established in 1896. The revenues of the Customs Service were used to pay for the modernisation of China's military forces and for the building of railways, arsenals and factories in the reform and 'self-strengthening' movements of the 1880s and 1890s. In many ways the Customs Service was Hart's own creation. Like it, he stood at the interface between China and the West, representing foreign influence in China, yet being used repeatedly by the Chinese government as its representative in dealing with foreign powers. He had, in the words of one historian, 'a profound sense of loyalty and obligation to the Chinese government'. Both volume in fine condition. Heavy book, extra postage likely.

Ownership Inscription of Academic Andrew Taylor, VG bright set in publishers cloth in slightly scruffy edgeworn dustjackets. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0674443209.

2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. xxvi, [4], 1-825, [3]; vi, [4], 829-1625, [5]; original full green cloth; fine. "Robert Hart's forty-five year administration of China's customs service was a unique achievement. In these letters Hart speaks to us directly from a time long past in China, but a time that may seem only yesterday to a Western reader. The result is a primary source for the history of modern China and the era of foreign privilege there.".

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Larger 8vo 2 volume set. book.