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Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Description: VG. no DJ. no inscriptions or marginalia. lovely clean hardback boards and contents.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, C. P.. Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China. The Cresset Press, 1965.
Price: US$11.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
FITZGERALD, C. P.. Barbarian beds, the origin of the chair in China. London, Cresset Press, 1965.
Price: US$14.76 + shipping
Description: 8vo. xvii, 85 pp. Frontis., 17 collotype plates, line drawings in text. Spine of the sleeved dustwrapper a little faded. Internally clean and crisp. A very good copy.
Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom
FitzGerald, C P. Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China. The Cresset Press, 1965.
Price: US$16.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, measuring 11 1/2" x 7", red cloth lettered black to spine, lacking dust jacket, lightly rubbed to the extremities & with a light knock to the leading top corner tips of the boards, the binding remains tight and the text is clean and unmarked, b&w illustrations, xvii + 85pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with 17 plates and 8 figures in the text. 85pp 1.73lb 11.6x7.3x0.7in
Seller: Newbury Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.42 + shipping
Description: 295x175: xvii,85pp. black and white illustrations, Original cloth (Hardback), no jacket, Very Good. Weight: 775g. .
Seller: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
FITZGERALD C.P.. Barbarian Beds. The Origin of the Chair in China.. , 1965.
Price: US$23.42 + shipping
Description: London: The Cresset Press 1965. 4to. Or.dec.cl. Gilt. In slightly defective d.w. XVIII86pp. With col. frontisp. 17 full-page plates and 9 text-illusts. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Fitzgerald, C. P.. Barbarian Beds The Origin of the Chair in China. The Cresset Press, London, 1965.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small edge chips on jacket, light soil; 85 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, C.P.. Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China. Cresset Press, London, 1965.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Red boards with green and white DJ, xvii, [4], 83pp, 17 BW plates and 8 illustrations within the text. A very useful history on the origins of the chair in China. An excellent reference, it includes comprehensive notes and references to Chinese texts as well as a glossary of Chinese terms. VG+, DJ has small tear upper left and shows some sunning on the spine
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardcover, 7¼" x 11½", with dust jacket 86 pages The Chinese are the only Asian people who, before modern times, used chairs and raised furniture and did not sit on mats, cushions or carpets. This book enquires into the causes, date and manner in which so remarable a change of habit came about in China at a time when there was no close contact with any people using chairs. Early pictorial and archaeological material is used to illustrate the first use of chairs. This is the first systematic study this nature. Seventeen full-page plates; numerous line drawings in text. Jacket edges have short tears. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket
Seller: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australia
Fitzgerald, C. P.. Barbarian Beds. The Origin of the Chair in China.. Cresset Press, London, 1965.
Price: US$44.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xvii, 85pp, 17 b/w plates, 8 figure drawings, 29x19cms.
Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France
FitzGerald, C. P.. BARBARIAN BEDS the Origin of the Chair in China. The Cresset Press, London, 1965.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 4to; 85 pages. Red paper hardcovers with black titles on spine, gently rubbed and bumped edges. Bright and clean interior, with many illustrations, colour frontis. In a green jacket with white and black titles. Sunned spine, rubbed edges. Some small tears, but protected in a mylar jacket. VG/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$52.90 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 85 pages; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 75-82) . Subjects: Chairs. China --Civilization. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 85 pages; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 75-82) . Subjects: Chairs. China --Civilization. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, C.P.. Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China. Cresset Press, London, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Many black & white illustrations. Rubricated title, red cloth, d.w. rubbed. London: Cresset Press, (1965). First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.