About this title: Herbert A. Giles, professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge and late H.B.M. Consul at Ningpu, compiles this early history of Chinese literature in 1901. This is a facsimile reprint from the 1923 edition.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company, New York, New York USA
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good in None jacket. Dust jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Yellow cloth binding shows a bit of wear at spine ends. THIS is the first attempt made in any language, including Chinese, to produce a history of Chinese literature. Native scholars, with their endless critiques and appreciations of individual works, do not seem ever to have contemplated anything of the kind, realising, no doubt, the utter ... read more
Edition: Later Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, Tokyo, Japan
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780804810975ISBN:0804810974
Description: Good. Book. 12mo-over 6"-7" tall. Printed in Japan. This book has a wrinkled cover corner top-front, and minor edgewear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove P.; Calder
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 448p., 21 cm. First paperback printing. Pages clean and unmarked with former price penciled on half-title page corner. Binding tight with reading creasing and slight wave. Cover shiny and attractive with minor edge/shelf wear (edge/corner chips or dings, long corner crease on back, a touch of sun fading on spine). Sturdy and gently used. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press Inc., New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Moderate cover wear, pencilled annotations widely scattered in text.; 13 x 20 cm.; pg. viii, 448; Originally published 1923. Bibliographical note, index. "This famous book is the first history in any language, including Chinese, of one of the richest literatures in the world. The book ranges over the twenty-five hundred years from the beginnings in the feudal era down to the early twentieth century, from Confucius through the various dynasties to the Wall Literature ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ungar
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. 1967 thick hardback with dust jacket. See MY SCAN in listing for cover. Ex-library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Clean book with solid spline. FREE Delivery Confirmation and mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra mailing protection. Free Delivery Confirmation is included with each item. Mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra shipping protection. FREE delivery confirmation and mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra shipping protection. read more
Edition: 1st Ed. (U.S. ) 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York, NY
Date Published: 1901
Description: VG. No Dust Jacket 448pp(Index) 3/4" cloth tear across spine just below head of spine, page ends dull, faint foxing specks on endpapers, o.w. clean & tight. No ink names, bookplates, etc. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Unknown
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434465245ISBN:1434465241
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434476319ISBN:1434476316
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434476326ISBN:1434476324
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