New Haven: Yale University Press. 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
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
Singapore: Graham Brash, 1988. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. Map endpapers. xviii, 341 pp. 30 pp. colour plates. Light creasing and soiling to spine, slight bumping to corners, some creasing to lamination of rear cover. Some creasing to outer margin of p. 187. First published in 1881, The Head-hunters of..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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 moving..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Pictorial soft cover. xii, 391 pp. [8] pp. B&W illustrations. Discolouration to spine, sticker ghost to head of front cover. Tail edge of text block soiled. For all students of Chinese art and culture this anthology will prove invaluable..... 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
Hong Kong: Historic City Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed with date. First edition. Scarce. Soft cover. 256 pp. B&W photos and maps. Fine. More
Nutley, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 Kiang-nan..... 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
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. burgundy publisher's cloth, black and gilt stamped titling and vignettes to front board and spine. Rebacked, original spine laid down. 328 pp., 32 pp. ads. Duotone frontis. + numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some light staining, scuffing to cloth, a few..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hardcover. 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 tears..... More
London and Glasgow: Collins. Anderson, Marjorie. Hardcover. 18mo. [n.d., ca. 1950s?] Maroon pebbled cloth. T.E.R. 127 pp. B&W illustrations in text. A few spots of light rubbing to edges, stain to upper corner of front cover. More
Boston: The Page Company Publishers, 1919. McManus, Blanche. Hardcover. 12mo. Reprint. Fifth impression. Orig. aqua cloth. 159 pp., [12] plate illustrations. Discolouration to spine, sunning to joints and top edges of boards. Some light foxing to cloth. Rubbing to spine ends. Interior clean. 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
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full tan cloth with stamped map illustration to front board. x, 599 pp. Fold-out map frontis. Some sunning to cloth. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, worn to extremities, a few small perforations, 1"..... More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hardcover. 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 pastedowns..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1975. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xii,322 pp. Fine. More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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 of..... More
Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 gems..... 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