China, life and culture – Legge (James, DD, transl.), The Ch...

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China, life and culture – Legge (James, DD, transl.), The Chinese Classics, Part I Confucius, New York, John B. Alden 1883, 12mo, xii + 219pp, dark green boards, gilt titles and to spine; Aiping (Mu), Vermilion Gate, London, Little Brown, 1st UK edn., 2000 8vo, x + 819pp, portrait frontis., 14pp plates, black end papers, red boards, gilt spine titles , d. w.; Menzies (Gavin), 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, London, Bantam Random House, 1st edn., 2002, 8vo, xix + 520pp, 24 pages of colour plates, maps & sketches, illustrated end papers, reb boards, gilt spine titles; Tuchmann (Barbara W), Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945, New York, Macmillan, 2nd printing, 1971, 8vo, xv + 621pp, with 36 pages of monochrome plates, maps to endpapers, black cloth, silt spine titles, .d .w; Kahn (E. J., jr.), The China Hands: America’s Foreign Service Officers and What befell Them, New York, Viking, 1st edn., 1975, 8vo, xii + 337pp, map, red cloth over sand boards, black & yellow spine titles, d. w.; Fraser (John), The Chinese: Portrait of a People, Toronto, Collins, 1980, 8vo, 463pp, maps and 16 pages of plates, red endpapers, black cloth over red boards, gilt spine titles, d. w.; Allen (Steve), ‘Explaining China’ New York, Crown, 1st edn., 1980, royal 8vo, ix + 339pp, numerous monochrome illus in text, frontis portrait of author, black cloth over dark grey boards, gilt titles, d.w. (7)