New Haven: Yale University. Soft Cover. 8vo. [1969]. Far Eastern Publications. Mirror Series C, No. 16. Orig. grey wrappers. 64pp. Small rubber stamp to top of title page, light wear to edges and extremities with soiling to front and rear covers, o/w a good copy. More
Beijing: Women of China, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 18mo [tall]. [6] 107 p.p. Illustrated. Light rubbing and sporadic scuffs to covers. Top and bottom edge slightly bumped. Interior clean. A very good copy of early Chinese Folktales. Popular stories include: The Cowherd and the Weaving Mind, Goddess Chang E...... More
Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1948. Sturges, Katherine. Hard Cover. 4to. 191 p.p. Blue cloth boards with colour illustrated onlay and gilt lettering to spine and front board. Front board is discoloured in a few places, light rubbing to fore edge, rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners..... More
Wetteren, Beligum: Cultura Press, 1974. Soft Cover. 4to. Orig. orange wrappers, xli, 429-662pp. Light creasing and rubbing to wrappers but o/w near fine. A selection of articles include: Raw Materials for Papermaking in China, Sir Hamilton Alexander Roskeen Gibb (1895-1971), Thai and Cambodian: A case of Syntactic Borrowing? And more..... More
Wetteren, Beligum: Cultura Press, 1974. Soft Cover. 4to. Orig. orange wrappers, 141pp, (4)pp. About fine. A selection of articles:Political Recruitment in the Chin Dynasty, "Arabs" in Babylonia in the 8th Century B.C., Hsieh Hui-Liens Snow Fu': a Structural Study and other content. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Original black cloth boards. x, 436 pp. B&W frontis + map. Dust jacket sunned at spine, a few small chips to spine ends and edges. DJ is price clipped. Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1971. Fourth Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo (royal). Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXVII. 10th Reprint. Frontis plus 8 illustrations throughout. 227 pp. Light scratching to covers. Very light rubbing to edges. Book in near fine condition. More
Toronto: Toronto Alpha. Soft Cover. 8" x 8" [2007]. Soft cover. 205 p.p. Text in English and Chinese. Sunning to spine, crease to lower corner of rear cover. Commemorates the 70th anniversary of the massacre of Nanking, China by Japanese soldiers in 1937. More
Nutley, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 254 p.p. Blue cloth boards with blue illustrated dust jacket. Some wear to jacket and a few small tears. Small blue stains to FFEP at foot and edge. Lit-sen Chang was the former president of..... More
Paris: Mouton & Co, 1970. Soft Cover. 8vo. [Formal Analysis of Poetic Work by a Tang Author: Zhang Ruo-Xu]. Paperback, 133pp. Name on front fly-leaf, light soiling to wrappers but o/w very good. Literary critique of Tang Dynasty Poet Zhang Ruo-Xu. Text in French. More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xxv, 298 pp., [20 pp. ads]. Bruise to spine head, bumping and curling to lower corner of front cover, light damp stain to head of rear cover. Remainder mark to tail edge. A few spots of ink underlining to..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hard Cover. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xvi, 713 p.p. B&W illustrations and maps in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, a few short..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original red cloth binding. xvi, 393 p.p. [99] plates (1 in colour) plus frontis of Great Wall of China. Bookplate of De Guinzbourg on front pastedown. Rubbing to boards, edges with some fraying at tips; spine head bumped. Sporadic soiling..... More
Munich: C.J. Bucher Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. 4to. Orig. blue cloth, 167pp. Illustrated. About fine in a near fine d/w. Photographic essay on Tibetan refugees who cross the Himalayas into Dharamsala in hopes of a peaceful future. This essay tackles these questions. More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). [n.d., ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments. Red speckled fore and tail edges. General index to volume VII. Ex-libris stickers to front..... More
London: William Stanby and Jacob Bloome, 1634. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. [x] 225 p.p. [14 p.p. table]. Half bound red calf over marbled boards. Title on red leather spine label. Marbled boards well worn and chipped, edges rubbed. Hinges secure. Engraved and printed title pages and colophon leaf. "A" at..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full black cloth. xi, [1 b&w map], 238 pp. Slight bruise to spine head. Black pen scuff to fore edge of text block. Jacket has a few bumps. Else fine in fine jacket. Falling between the great unified empires..... More
Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. Signed by author. 96 p.p. Yellow cloth with red lettering, w/ dust jacket. Jacket sunned at spine, small tear to front Laid in reviews and comments about the author and book. "'Selected Pearls of Wisdom' is not a necklace with..... More
New York: Issued Under the Auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations By the John Day Company, 1942. Hardcover. 12mo. Enlarged Edition With a Supplement for the Years 1938 to 1942 by George E. Taylor. Orig. orange cloth, 207pp. Illustrated with maps. From the library of C.B. Farrar..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). First complete Translation in English. Original red jacket and publishers light grey cloth. xxxii, 726. A collection of anecdotes, conversations and historical remarks by people who lived in China between 150-420 AD., with commentary by Liu Chun (462-521). Small..... More
Oshawa: Triumph Sports Communications, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 200 pp. Minor creasing and rubbing to spine, else fine. From January 1994 to July 1997, Roger Lajoie wrote 208 columns for This Week newspapers on, well, just about everything. This collection presents 90 of the author's favourite..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Hard Cover. 8vo. Sixth edition. xii, 344 p.p. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. Spine is sunned, bumped at ends, light smudging to front board. Roughly cut edges. Map endpapers. Text is clean throughout. Covers the geographic background of Chinese history, Chinese..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1927. Hard Cover. 8vo. Second edition, B to copyright page. Full brown cloth, black lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge brown. xvi, [1 leaf], 335 pp., [16] B&W plates Folding map to rear. Bumping to extremities. Ink..... More
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to Professor John Leyerle. Soft cover. xxix, 153 pp. Fine condition. This major anthology, the first of its kind in English, presents more than two hundred poems drawn from a tradition spanning a thousand years..... More
London: Cassell, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt dragon on front cover. viii, 356 p.p. plus [16] p.p. ads. Frontispiece, plus [5] plates, including a political map of China and Japan [folding]. Alicia Little [1845-1926] campaigned for women's rights in Britain and advocated against the practice..... More