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London: Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 1982. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. pp. 175. With poems from the Chinese by Peter Levi, Arthur Cooper, John Cayley, as well as essays on the prospects for translation from Chinese poetry, 'Englishing the earliest Chinese Poems', and 'Some Light on the Chinese in Pound's Cantos'. Minimal signs of use.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine/good +. Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures. 8vo. xxxix, 198. Navy cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dust jacket has a couple of small chips, with some wear and small closed tears around spine ends. Book is clean and unmarked.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo. xxv, 483. Spotting to leading and top page edges, some creases, light wear, to covers, still a sound, clean copy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. pp. 164. Light use only.

Corgi, 1967. First UK paperback. Trade Paperback. Good. Trans. from the German by Richard Martin. pp. 347. Pages browned, rubs, light wear to covers.

New York: David McKay Company, 1961. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good/good. 8vo. Bright lemon yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine. pp. 184. In unclipped dust wrapper, which has edgewear, some small closed tears to edges, slightly darkened. Boards slightly bowed, offsetting to endpapers, very minor spotting to top page edges. Still a clean, firm copy. Delza wrote the first ever account in English of tai chi. With drawings by the author.

London: Reaktion Books, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Lrg 8vo. viii, 350. Sun fade to spine, otherwise minimal signs of use, a bright, sharp copy.

Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications, July 1970. Second printing, International edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Five plays from the Chinese Opera. pp. 304 + ads. Pictorial thin card wraps. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, some rubs, minor creasing, still a firm, bright copy.

London: Frank Watts, 1974. Reprint, revised edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sm 4to. pp. 86. An overview of the development of Communist China, from the Long March to the Cultural revolution. Numerous contemporary b&w photographs of domestic scenes in the new China. Some marks to boards, else a clean, sound copy. No jacket.

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1974. First Edition. Thin card wraps. Near fine. Fold out map, pp. 130. A very well kept, clean, firm copy.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1976. Fourth Edition, revised. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very good. Lrg 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. xviii, 624 + fold out illus to rear and map. W/ numerous illustrations. In price clipped jacket, spine dulled, darkened to edges. Still a sound, firm copy, clean and unmarked.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good/very good. Lrg 8vo. pp. 915. Price clipped jacket in removable plastic sleeve. Spotting to top page edges, else a very sound, clean copy.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. Fourth Edition, revised. Reprint. Original Cloth. Near fine/near fine. Lrg 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. xviii, 624 + fold out illus to rear and map. W/ numerous illustrations. In bright unclipped jacket. Bar a minor splash mark to upper page edges, only limited signs of use.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. xii, 468. Pages slightly toned, previous owner's name to flyleaf, in a clean, unclipped dust jacket.

London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1966. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Good +. Pictorial covers. pp. 32. Light wear, slightly fragile, but still a clean, firm copy. Published to accompany the BBC radio series, written by Harris, who was then Asian specialist at The Times.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo. Gilt titles to spine. In unclipped jacket with a little edgewear, a couple of very small closed tears. Some spotting to top page edges. ix, 271.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine/fine. 8vo. pp. 288. A very bright, sharp copy in unclipped jacket, kept in a removable cellophane sleeve.

Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1965. First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Very good. pp. 175. Text in Dutch. With some excellent b&w photographs. Uncommon.

New York: Vintage Books, 1974. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good -. pp. 673. A detailed resource of contemporary textual material, much of it translated from the Chinese, on the political situation in China, including the Cultural Revolution. Pages toned, an abrasion to corner, hd of spine, o'wise a tight, firm and very clean copy.

London: C A Watts & Co. Ltd, 1967. First edition. Boards. Fine/very good. In The New Thinker's Library. Sm 8vo. viii, 268. In a clipped jacket, a little rubbed, creased to edges. Bookseller's pencil price to flyleaf. Less an attempt at futurology, more a contemporary defence of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Chou, best known perhaps as the author of A Many-Splendoured Thing, (1952), later recanted her fervent support for Mao. Nonetheless interesting in the light it offers on the debates then swirling around the Cultural Revolution. Quite uncommon in jacket in the first ed.