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THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: its impact on Asia
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1962. 180 pp, bibliography, index. Ink call numbers to upper inner corner of front cover but no other library marks; ink owner names in top margin of first page; VG clean, tight and unworn otherwise, no text marks. The hardcover edition was in 1962, this paperback edition is later (1967?). Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44024More details Price: USD $10.00 -
THE GREAT PLATEAU: being an account of exploration in central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47714More details Price: USD $850.00 -
The Meiji Restoration
Edition: First Edition
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972. Brown cloth. pp (xiv), 513. Map at front, notes, annotated bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Jacket has minor use, VG. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43879More details Price: USD $40.00 -
THE NEW FAR WEST AND THE OLD FAR EAST: Being notes on a tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc
Edition: First edition.
London: Edward Stanford, 1889. Octavo, green pictorial cloth gilt, black endpapers. pp (xii), 316, (4, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard + 7 other plates + 3 colour folding maps. Book a bit leaned, some foxing early and late, yellowing and foxing to the page edges, else a fine, bright copy, no owner names, inner hinges not cracked. The first 11 chapters deal with his journey from Toronto to Vancouver Island.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36645More details Price: USD $195.00 -
THE PAGANS OF NORTH BORNEO. With an Introduction by C.G. Seligman, F.R.S. With 75 plates printed in two colours, 11 diagrams and two maps
Edition: First edition.
London: Hutchinson, 1929. Tall octavo, original red cloth. Pp 288. Large folding colour map tipped in at rear. Indexed. Private bookplate on front pastedown; slight sunning to spine and upper rear cover; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. An account of the Murut and Dusun. Perhaps the most important work of this British convert to Islam, based on his five years' experience as a district officer for the North Borneo Company. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 32834More details Price: USD $250.00 -
THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL
London: Macmillan, 1896. Fourth printing (first was in 1895). Octavo, maroon cloth gilt. pp (viii), 183, [1], (20, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard, colour map, 2 colour folding plans, and 20 other plates. Book a little leaned; spine has mild wear at ends; light spots to covers; foxing to tissue guard and title page; chip to lower margin of one plate (no printing affected); else a very good copy, clean, tight & unworn, no owner names. Famous battle on the Northwest Frontier of India very near the border with Afghanistan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42319More details Price: USD $75.00 -
THE RIVERS OF PARADISE AND CHILDREN OF SHEM, with a copious appendix and a disquisition concerning the expedition of Sesostris into India
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39892More details Price: USD $95.00 -
THE STORY OF TOPSY: Little Lonely of Central Asia
Edition: First printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in white, endpaper maps. pp viii, 9-212 + plates. Illustrations in text. Light rubbing to spine ends, tidy ink owner name at top margin of half-title page; else fine. The dust jacket has a chip at head of lightly yellowed white spine, with loss of one letter and part of another affected; VG+ otherwise, flap price intact. Missionaries in China at the western extremity of the Great Wall, Mongolia to the north, Tibet to the south.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36216More details Price: USD $35.00 -
THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS
Edition: First of this edition
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. First of the uniform edition (first edition was in 1938). Blue cloth. (xii), 13-318, (2) pp + 16 colour photo plates; one map in text, one folding map at rear. Index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has a two inch tear to upper inner corner of fron t panel, edge nicks, light dust soiling, VG otherwise. Author's account of four happy months spent in the Himalayas. After ascending Kamet, Smythe continued his travels in the Garhwal Himalaya and Bhyundar Valley.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4449More details Price: USD $25.00 -
THE WEST IN THE EAST from an American Point of View.
Edition: First Canadian issue.
Toronto: McClelland & Goodchild, 1911. Dark green cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp [2], (xii), 534. Bookplate on front free endpaper, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Of the 11 chapters (plus a Conclusion), the first 8 are about his experiences in India. Chapter 9 is on China, 10 on Japan, and 11 on "Things Japanese, Korean, and Manchurian.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11073More details Price: USD $40.00 -
THE WEST IN THE EAST FROM AND AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW
Edition: First UK edition
London: Duckworth, 1913. pp [2], (xii), 534, [2]. In a nice full red calf school prize binding (St. John’s College, Rupert’s Land), spine with two labels, elaborate gilt decoration, sides with decorative gilt borders, gilt arms of school on front cover, marbled endpapers and page edges, bound-in ribbong marker. 1914 ink prize inscription at front; a fine copy. Of the 11 chapters (plus a Conclusion), the first 8 are about his experiences in India. Chapter 9 is on China, 10 on Japan, and 11 on "Things Japanese, Korean, and Manchurian.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27598More details Price: USD $75.00 -
THE WESTERN WORLD AND JAPAN: a study in the interaction of European and Asiatic cultures
New York: Knopf, 1958. Third printing. Peach and olive cloth. pp xvi, 504, xi, index Ink owner name at front, light sunning to spine and pink top page edges, near fine otherwise. Dust jacket has short tears, rubbing, small chips, spine sunning; good. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44523More details Price: USD $18.95 -
THINGS CHINESE, or notes connected with China.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41960More details Price: USD $125.00 -
TOLD ROUND A BRUSHWOOD FIRE. The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki. Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Joyce Ackroyd.
Princeton, NJ / Tokyo: Princeton University Press / University of Tokyo Press, 1979. Octavo, hardcover, blue and white cloth. xii, 347 pp. Fine in jacket, no previous owner marks. "The celebrated Confucian scholar Ara Hakuseki (1657-1725) holds a prominent position in Japanese history as the influential adviser to Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu and his successor Ietsugu...[this book] was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary source material for the first half of the Tokugawa period, it constitutes a unique historical supplement t o the official records." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17553More details Price: USD $30.00 -
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
Washington, D.C: Counterpoint, 1999. Card covers, pp 646 + plates; map at front, index. Ink name at front, outer margins of covers curled, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47821More details Price: USD $9.95 -
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels in the Interior including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikkô. Popular Edition
London: 1907. Second printing of the Popular Edition (first was Murray, 2 volumes, 1880). pp xxiv, 336; 40 illustrations, index. Full polished calf prize binding of Norwich School, with gilt-tooled arms on the covers, spine with raised bands, label, elaborate gilt decoration, marbled endpapers and page edges. Foxing to early and late leaves, minor rubbing to joints and spine ends, else a fine copy, hinges not cracked. A nice copy of this travel classic, one of the best books of this intrepid Lady Traveler. She set out alone in 1878 to explore the interior of Japan, then little known to westerners, especially the "hairy Ainu" of Hokkaido.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51516More details Price: USD $175.00 -
WASTE-BASKET SURGERY
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43364More details Price: USD $40.00 -
WHEN I WAS A CHILD
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Musson, no date (1912?). Squarish octavo, stamped in white. and gilt. pp xii, (282) + frontispiece portrait and 11 plates; many vignette drawings in the text. Spine a little darkened, with a short tear at foot, two small light spots, frayed at head; offset endpaper tanning; page edges tanned; else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. The famous Japanese artist remember his early years in Japan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 34316More details Price: USD $35.00 -
WILLIAM ROBERT BROUGHTON'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC 1795-1798. With an Introduction by Barry Gough
Edition: First edition
London: Ashgate, for The Hakluyt Society, 2010. Blue cloth. pp lxxxii, 315. Index. 12 maps and 9 figures. Errata sheet tipped in at p lxx. Series III, Volume 22. Fine in fine jacket. Survey of the east coast of Asia. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51642More details Price: USD $45.00