Encyclopaedia of Chinese Opera Masks
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£250.00
£250.00
per item
Encyclopaedia of Chinese Opera Masks
Edited by Zhang Xiaoshi
Published by Xinhua Bookshop July, 1990
Printed in Fuyang Hangzhou
£250
Limp blue paper covers, traditional Chinese four hole sewing, pages folded at foredge, red paper titling label on front cover, paper covered board chemise, slip case with pictorial paper and text, 68 leaves, printed on both sides with 9 coloured images of faces per side giving over 1,000 different masks, plus some text, that's less than £4 a mask, can't say fairer than that, slip case is bumped, chemise blank paper covering is crinkled, book is very good
The masks are for the Peking Opera.
The state owned Xinhua Bookstore has many premises in China.