Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$151.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: hardback, 11 1/2" x 8", bound in floral cloth with paper title to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, printed on rough-trimmed hand-made paper in an edition limited to 200 copies of which this is numbered 125. Signed by both poet and translator on limitation page. A near fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and house din a blue paper covered slipcase, illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu with calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan, vii + 94pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ~Full pictorial cloth with design of birds, beasts, and flowers to boards. Title label printed in blue to spine, very slightly marked. Very small (c. 1cm across) manufacturer's flaw or abrasion to cloth on spine. Folio (20.2 x 29.3cm). Top edges gilt, other edges deckled. Marbled endpapers by the Compton Press. With original deep blue paper covered slipcase in Near Fine condition, very minor crease near base. Title page printed in blue & black. Parallel English and Chinese texts, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan and English translations versified by Alan Ayling from translations by Duncan MacKintosh in collaboration with T'ung Ping-Cheng. Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu. Notes and index to rear. One of a limited edition of 200 copies printed by John & Rosalind Randle and Charles Lowndes at the Whittington Press, of which this is no. 100. Signed by both Alan Ayling and Duncan MacKintosh on colophon. Printed in Caslon type on Wookey Hole handmade paper and bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh, using cloth supplied by celebrated textile firm Warner and Sons. A very attractive early edition from the Whittington Press, from the first year of its full-time operation. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: viii, 94, (1)pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$178.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Textured patterned cloth bearing a bird, dragon and animal design in blue, terracotta red, brown and black, with title in black on paper label on spine.The book is housed in blue card slipcase. Condition: Very good, with light sunning to paper label on spine. Binding sound. This book is no.124 of an edition of 200 copies printed on handmade paper from St.Cuthbert's Mill, Wookey Hole, and is signed on the colophon by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. The book is also dedicated on the front endpaper to Elspeth Huxley from Duncan Mackintosh "To Elspeth with love from Biddy and Duncan, Christmas 1974" . 94pp. B/w illustrations by Fei Ch'Eng Wu. The slipcase is in good condition with some light shelfwear.
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$223.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Colophon states that 200 copies were printed, this one is numbered 190 and signed by Ayling and Mackintosh. vii, [i], 94, [2] pages. In the original cloth covered boards, with the paper covered slipcase. Some light spotting to the rear end papers. Pages are top edges gilt, the others are untrimmed - some creasing to page edges at the start.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$248.58 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An exceptionally lovely copy of this signed Limited Edition collection of Chinese verses, translated into English and illustrated throughout. Number one-hundred and twenty of two-hundred copies produced, signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Ayling rendered the poems into verso, from Mackintosh's English language translation.Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan.A wonderful collection of Chinese poetry and verse, arranges into sections covering the T'ang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Sung Dynasty, Southern Sung Dynasty, and the Ch'ing Dynasty.Beautifully bound in Chinese patterned cloth, and housed in the original slip case. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper covered slip case. Externally, fine. Slip case in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$248.58 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in marbled cloth boards and endpapers in like plain slipcase. Number 140 of a limited edition of 200 copies handset in Caslon printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper and signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. 1st edition of a very attractive production. ISBN B0016D6K04
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. vii, 94 plus colophon. Number 191 of a limited edition of 200 copies handset in Caslon printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper and signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh on the colophon. Top edges gilt, others uncut. 20 x 29.5 cm. Original full Chinese patterned cloth, preserved in original blue board slip case (with a few slight scuff marks). The Whittington Press has, since 1971, been printing books by letterpress, & have been printing books of exquisite quality and casting its own type as one of only a handful of Monotype shops still working, with one of the largest collections of matrices (and that is what makes it unique). WorldCat locates 73 copies in institutional libraries out of a total of 200 copies produced, leaving fewer than 120 odd copies in private hands.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 11 1/2" x 8". Calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan. Illustrations by Fei Ch'eng Wu. Original pictorial cloth, t.e.g. uncut, enclosed in original blue board slip case. Fine, fresh copy. #139 of 200 copies, signed by Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.