Oriental Antiques
New York: ARCO Publishing Company, Inc., 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 256 pp. Colour plates, B&W illustrations. Some light foxing to inside covers, else fine and clean. More
New York: ARCO Publishing Company, Inc., 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 256 pp. Colour plates, B&W illustrations. Some light foxing to inside covers, else fine and clean. More
Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1979. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Quarter black cloth, teal paper boards. Map endpapers. 204 pp. [16] pp. B&W photo plates. Bruising to spine ends and corners. Some fading to endpapers at hinges. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped and lightly worn at extremities. Darkening to spine. A...... More
Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar & Sons Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Second edition. Full yellow paper boards. xvi, 304 pp. Worming to front board, sunning to spine, small spot of wear to spine head, some light soiling. Bookplate of A.P. Thornton to ffep. Some creasing and paper repairs to foot of last..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Modern Asian Literature Series. 127 p.p. Light scuffing to rear cover. Some markings to top-edge. Otherwise interior clean, bright. A near fine copy, demonstrating Haiku, Tanka, and Kanshi which was composed by the Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) from the summer of..... More
Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1983. Soft cover. 8vo. Original wrappers. [4] 377-717 p.p. plus [2] p.p. ads. Essays: Allegory, Allegories, and the Classic of Poetry; Poems on Paintings: Su Shih and Huang T'ing-chien; The Early Life of and Thought of Ito Jinsai; the Dates of Western Chou; Rules, Rules, and more..... More
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1970. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, 123pp. Fine in d/w. Essays on the Ancient Near East, Islam, India and its Cultural Empire, China and Central Eurasia. More
New York: The Presbyterian Department of Missionary Education, 1912. Hardcover. 12mo. Revised edition. Orig. green publisher's cloth, gilt lettering. xvi, 282 pp. [14] B&W plates + folding colour map at rear. Bumping and wear to lower corners, rubbing to spine ends, a few small stains and scuffs to cloth. Ink..... More
London: The London Missionary Society. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1900]. Orig. pink publisher's cloth. 276 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block. Stamp of the Jacklin Library, presentation stamp to ffep. Interior age toned. Publisher's pamphlet dated..... More
Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Chinese dust jacket. Facing translations of Chinese and English. [8 prelim leaves], iii, iii, 22-323, [1], ii, ii, 74, [1]. Supplement Illustrating a Few Interesting Pieces of Bronze, Ceramics and Jade. Many colour and b/w..... More
Japan: Board of Tourist Industry, 1936. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Tourist Library, 15. White wrappers, colour illustration on upper cover, 66pp. Frontispiece, plus illustrations in-text. Fine. History and origins of instruments and musical composition from Japan. More
Bangkok: Asia Books, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10" x 10" Orig. brown paper boards. 216 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Chafing to extremities. Dust jacket bumped to edges. More
[Beijing]: All-China Women's Federation. Soft cover. 12mo (large). (1995-2000). [i], 22 p.p. Purple wraps with red and purple lettering, staple bound. Wraps have some light creasing and soiling, and sunning to edges. Text is clean. "The State Council of the People's Republic of China promulgated the Program for the Development..... More
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2009. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black cloth. xi, 282 pp. , [8] pp. B&W photos, plus B&W photos and maps in text. Fine in fine jacket. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo (large). 517 p.p. Cloth. Introduction byM. F. K. Fisher. Inner flap price clipped. Light discolouration to edges of dust-jacket. No marks to boards or interior. A fine copy of book. More
Beijing: New World Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft. 8vo. Soft cover. 341 pp. B&W photos in text. Light sunning to spine, rubbing to joints. Ink inscription and stamp to title page. Features essays by Rewi Alley, Sam Ginsbourg, Isabel and David Crook, Denise Lebreton, Mayoshi Hajime, Sonia Su, and more..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xx, 850 p.p. B&W illustrations in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, chipped to spine head and upper..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Hardcover. 4to. Still in shrink wrap. 192 pp, illustrated throughout. In the plain of the Ganges in southern Nepal, Eric Valli has discovered the existence of a fascinating nomadic tribe. Known as the bee people, the Rajis survive by harvesting wild honey and by fishing..... More
New York: Greekworks.com, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. xxxv, 659 pp. [90] numbered B&W illustrations. A few spots of staining to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to extremities, small chip to head of front flap, light creasing to foot of front..... More
Union City, CA: Heian International, 1992. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 120 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. A few light creases to rear cover, else fine. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Soft cover. 8vo. 356 p.p. Paperback. Light bruising to corners. Discolouration to spine. Slight foxing to page ends, otherwise clean. A fine copy of book. This book was written in hopes to inform the reader of the first great Chinese historical work. More
SuZhou, China: SuZhou University Press, 1995. Soft cover. 12mo. ii, 36 p.p., [8 p.p.]. Softcover. Creasing to rear cover and a few pages at rear, else a near fine copy. Text is in English first, then in Chinese. More
London: New Burlington Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Full olive green cloth. 127 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is bumped to extremities, a few spots of rubbing, stain and sticker ghost to front cover. More
New York: New York University Press, 2008. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xviii, 350 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. Vietnam's Forgotten Army chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dihn and Tran Ngoc Hue, two fo the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Both men..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. 8.75" x 7.5" Oblong. Soft cover. 46 pp. B&W illustration. Spine tilted. Black scuff to top edge of text block. Foxing to edges of text block. Embossed ex libris stamp to ffep. More
Gravity Design International, 2001. Hardcover. 15.25" x 12.25" Oblong 4to. Orig. navy cloth. Unpaginated, [~98 pp.]. Forty colour illustrations (incl. one fold-out) + B&W illustrations in text. Some very light soiling and a few scuffs to cloth, else fine. More