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A DIPLOMAT IN JAPAN
Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2006. pp (6), 472. Illustrations, glossary, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Originally published London, 1921. "The inner history of the criticial years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took and active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period."
Book ID: 50557More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH: preface by Evelyn Waugh
Melborne: Lonely Planet Publications, 2005. pp (261), [3] + ads + plates. Fine copy, with ink owner name of author John Metcalf. Classic travelogue of Afghanistan. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55957More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
A TAOIST PEARL
Edition: First Canadian issue
Book ID: 35850More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
ASIAN LANDSCAPES
Edition: First printing
(Lethbridge, Alberta): (University of Lethbridge, 1977). Oblong octavo, card covers. pp 65. map, 30 sepia illustrations with text. Fine copy. Author's sketches made on his Asian travels over the previous 12 years. He was with the Dept. of Geology in the University of Lethrbridge. Signed by the author, May, 1977.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 45495More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM: or, religious thought and life in India, as based on the Veda and other sacred books of the Hindus. Fourth edition, enlarged and improved
Book ID: 42884More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50
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CAPITALISM AND THE FAR EAST. With an Introduction by J.C. Wedgwood, M.P., D.S.O.
London: The Independent Labour Party, 1921. 16 pp, stapled, in self wrappers. A little curled at bottom from light damp stain throughout; else fine. I.L.P. Pamphlets. New Series. No. 43. "A war between the Unites States and Japan may not be the end of civilization, but it would certainly mean the ultimate doom of Europe becase of its effect on the development of China." Focuses on China and Japan. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 22952More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
CHINA IN CONVULSION (Two volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 41986More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
CONSUL IN PARADISE. Sixty-Nine Years in Paradise.
Edition: First Edition
London: Souvenir Press, 1965. Green boards. 175 pp, plates inserted. VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names, in VG jacket. Bangkok bookstore rubber stamp to rear free endpaper. Author was the former British Consul-General, Chiengmai, Siam (Thailand).; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 17934More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
DEMOCRACY AND THE PARTY MOVEMENT IN PREWAR JAPAN. The Failure of the First Attempt.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1975. Reprint of the 1953 edition. Green cloth. (xvi), 471, (1) pp. Light damp stains to front cover; remainder stripe to top page edges; a few erasable pencil marks and one corner crease near centre; else a good, sound copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 10110More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES IN SOUTHERN INDIA. With 40 plates
Edition: First printing
Madras: The Superintendent, Government Press, 1906. Thick octavo, original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. pp viii, 580 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 39 other plates (collated complete). Index. Page edges yellowed; 1919 ink name at front; very light cover soiling; endpaper yellowing; scattered foxing in text; frequent pencil marks in text, mostly in margins; cracked inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG clean and unworn copy. 2 kg parcel
Book ID: 42886More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE TAIPINGS
Edition: First US issue
New York: Praeger, 1969. Blue cloth. pp 271, notes, bibliography, index. Ink name at front else fine in fine jacket. British policy and the Taiping Rebellion in China, 1840-64. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47937More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
HELL'S BROTH MILITIA
Edition: First Edition
London: Sampson Low, Marston, no date (1936). Octavo, black cloth. pp (xii), 244 + 7 (of 8) plates. LACKS THE FRONTSIPIECE. Ex private lending library, with remains of label at bottom margin of last page; rubber stamp inside front cover, as well as skinning from removed labels at front and rear; two ink digits on front free endpaper; scattered foxing; in all, a good, sound copy, tight in the binding, of this scarce book about the author's experiences with an irregular force in the hills of the North-West Frontier of Pakistan (then India.)
Book ID: 31425More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY. Twenty-Fifth Volume, Second Half.
New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1904. Tall octavo, hardcover, original black buckram, spine gilt lettered. [2], (iv), (197)-366 pp. Pages 351-58 (from List of Members) and 361-64 (List of Exchanges) have been removed for some reason, complete otherwise. Drawings in text, two plates inserted. Text paper a bit toned, wear to spine tips; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired, VG clean and tight copy otherwise, no owner names. 14 papers: on the Kayans and Sea Dyaks of Borneo, the structure of the Code of Hammurabi, "Notes on Bloody Sacrifices in Palestine", Palmyrene inscriptions, notes on the Rig-Veda, and more. "This volume is for July-December, 1904. Issued December 2, 1904, in an edition of 500 copies." - verso of title leaf.
Book ID: 17084More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
LA CHINE: l’empire au milliard de sujets. Tome I [all published]
Edition: First Dutch Edition
No place (Paris): Jérôme Martineau, 1967. pp [2], (408). Double page map at rear. Rebound in full crimson morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bound- in ribbon marker. A fine copy. No further volumes were published. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50656More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
MEDIEVAL INDIAN CULTURE
Agra, India: Shiva Lal Agarwala, 1971. Second edition, revised and corrected (first was in 1964). Brown and pink boards. [viii], 234 pp. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, else a VG+ jacketless copy.; Octavo.
Book ID: 21829More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER: Helvellyn to Himalaya . Lhasa: the holy city
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Revised and reprinted. First published in two separate volumes in 1940 and 1938. First one volume, revised, was in 1945. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (2), 445 + frontispiece portait and numerous other plates and folding map at rear. Index. Spine and spine lettering faded, a good, clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy otherwise.
Book ID: 42917More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
MISSION TO TASHKENT....Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk
London: Folio Society, 2000. Second printing. Red cloth and glossy colour pictorial boards. Photos, maps. Fine in fine slipcase. 1.1 kg parcel,; Octavo
Book ID: 39932More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
RED PEAK: a personal account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962
Edition: First printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp 256 + plates. Index. Fine in price-clipped jacket. The expedition conquered the 24,590 ft Peak of Communism, highest mountain in the USSR, in the mountains north of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Book ID: 44692More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS LA TARTARIE, LE THIBET ET LA CHINE Pendant les annees 1844, 1845 et 1846. Deuxième édition
Book ID: 44115More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00
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THE CRUISE OF THE MARCHESA TO KAMSCHATKA & NEW GUINEA, with notices of Formose, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago...Second edition
Book ID: 36864More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50