China, fiction – Luo Guanzhong, trans Moss Roberts, calligra...

Hammer

£35

China, fiction – Luo Guanzhong, trans Moss Roberts, calligraphy by Yang Xianyi, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, 3 vols., Peking, Foreign Language Press/Berkeley Ca., University of California Press, 2nd edn., 1997, small 8vo, patterned endpapers, embossed black boards with gilt titles in Chinese characters, and in English to spine, d. w., Vol I 12 monochrome plates + 562pp; Vol. II: 563-1136pp; Vol. III: 1137-1457pp + notes 1459-1537pp, dramatis personae 1539-1544, chronology, 1545-1549pp, titles, terms and offices, 1551-1553, abbreviations, 1555-1556pp & notes 1557-1690; Ishiguro (Kazuo), When we Were Orphans, 1st edn., London, Faber & Faber, 2000, 8vo, 313pp, MS signature of author (who won the 2000 Booker prize for this novel) to title page, red endpapers, black boards, silver coloured titles to spine, d. w. (4)