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
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
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. Cadet edition, second impression. 190 p.p. Five full-page plates of b&w photographs incl. frontis. Signed in Chinese by Gladys Aylward, about whom the book was written. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilted title on spine, lettering a little faded. Minor bruising to..... 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
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
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
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. SIGNED with inscription to FFEP. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front board. xii, 257 p.p. [24 duotone plates, incl. frontis]. 56 photographs. Light bumping and chafing to spine ends, rubbing to corners. Small stain to..... 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
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
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
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
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
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo (small). viii, 227 p.p. Light soiling to lower front jacket cover along joint. Jacket rubbed and front inner flap price clipped. Small soil to p. 92, not affecting text, otherwise interior clean. Small bump to spine head. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Small..... More
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Washington D.C. The Institute for the Study of Man, in Collaboration with the University of Pensylvania Museum Publications, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, no. 26. Handsome blue buckram with gilt illustrations on front boards. Volume I: Archaeology, Migration and Nomadism, Linguistics. [16] 534 p.p. Illustrated..... More
Brookline, Massachusetts: Paradigm Publications, 1995. Soft Cover. 8vo (royal). Soft cover. xxxviii, 453 p.p. B&W illustrations. Light bumping to corners, else fine. Yoshio Manaka was a poet, artist, scholar, physician, and healer. His transformation of East Asian medical theory into a rational scientific model established the foundation for a new..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Son's, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii, [2], 3-863 p.p. Jacket chipped at edges, corners of covers. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Boards rubbed with wear to spine head. Small dent to lower joint. Pages browned, otherwise interior clean. In very good condition. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1951. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First Edition stated. With a "Now Hear This" by Captain Walter Karig. Brown cloth boards with black stamped titling to front boards and spine label. With forty-four photographs. Illustrated with official U.S. Navy photographs. 191 p.p., +..... More
Seoul, Korea: National Academy of Arts, 1974. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). 471 p.p. + 10 p.p. index. 36 p.p. B&W plates (82 photos). Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and title and date stamped in blind to front board. Blue ribbon marker. Light wear to extremities, bumping to corners..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). Reprint, first edition 1956. Volume II only of a 7-volume set. Quarter black cloth with B&W pictorial cloth boards. xxii, [2], 696 p.p., [1]. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped at edges, a few..... More
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1963. Hard Cover. 8vo. 288 p.p. Cloth. No jacket. Calligraphy by Lui, Fong-Chih. Top edge dyed black. Ink markings throughout front board. Rubbing to spine ends. Otherwise clean, a very good copy of book. More