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A CENTURY OF CHINESE REVOLUTION 1851-1949
Edition: First UK edition
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970. Translated from the German by Stanley Budman. Octavo, red cloth; pp 202, index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48032More details Price: USD $19.95 -
A TAOIST PEARL
Edition: First Canadian issue
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35850More details Price: USD $17.95 -
AMONG THE FLOWERS. The Hua-chien chi. Translated by Lois Fusek.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Brown cloth. (x), 232 pp + ads. Fine in jacket, no previous owner marks. "AMONG THE FLOWERS...was compiled about 940 by Chao Ch'ung-tso, a minor official at the court of the Later Shu. The majority of the eighteen poets represented in the anthology were natives of the state of Shu, in what is now Szechuan Province, during this turbulent period. AMONG THE FLOWERS marks the emergence of a new and subsequently very influential genre in Chinese poetry, the lyric tz'u. " - jacket.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17252More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ASSIGNMENT IN CHEKIANG. 71 Canadians in China 1902-1954.
Scarborough, Ontario: Scarborough Foreign Mission Society, 1982. Pictorial card covers. [8], 228 pp + appendices. Book a bit leaned; rippling from damp to bottom of first three leaves; ink names on title page; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. Canadian missionary activity in China. Numerous photos.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 18314More details Price: USD $9.95 -
BETHUNE. Second edition
Edition: First US edition
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979. Green cloth. pp (xiv), 210 + photos on text paper. Bibliography, index. VG+, no owner names. Dust jacket has short tears, generally VG. First published Toronto, 1973, this reprint adds a new author Foreword. Biography of the great Canadian doctor who aided the Republic in the Spanish Civil War and marched with the Red Army in the Sino-Japanese War. He is a great hero in China to this day.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44273More details Price: USD $25.00 -
BEYOND THE WITHERED OAK TEN THOUSAND SAPLINGS GROW: Poems. Chosen and Edited by H. Winston Rhodes
Edition: First edition.
Christchurch, New Zealand: Printed at the Caxton Press, n.d. (1962). pp 69, [3], in attached printed jacket with flaps, title page printed in black & brown. Spine yellowed, soft crease to upper outer corners, light tide made to lower margin of late text and rear cover, VG otherwise. Ink inscription on half-title page "Joanne from [? Rewi?], Peking, 22/01/68". Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 29246More details Price: USD $24.95 -
BLACK FLAGS IN VIETNAM: the story of a Chinese intervention
Edition: First US edition
New York: Macmillan, c1968. Octavo, red cloth. pp 296 + plates on text paper, 2 maps. Yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Spine of red jacket faded, edge nicks; VG otherwise. Story of the Tonkin war of 1884-85. China stepped in when France was trying to steal more land in North Vietnam.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40034More details Price: USD $18.50 -
"C" FORCE TO HONG KONG: a Canadian catastrophe 1941-1945
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Dundern Press, 1997. Octavo, red boards, endpaper maps. pp (viii), 160 + plates. Fine copy, no owner names. Jacket has short tears and rubbing at head of spine, VG otherwise. Story of the poorly trained and equipped Canadian contribution to the defense of Hong Kong. They arrived just 3 week before the Japanese launched a massive attack. They fought well, but were overwhelmed. Those not bayonetted lying wounded or already killed were taken prisonser and treated in the horrible way the Japanese treated all POWs.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40989More details Price: USD $17.50 -
CHINA IN CONVULSION (Two volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41986More details Price: USD $225.00 -
CHINA IN CRISIS: Volume 1, Books 1 and 2, China's Heritage and the Communist Political System, Volume 2, China's Policies in Asia and America's Alternatives (3 volume set)
Edition: First edition.
University of Chicago Press, 1968. Three volumes. Dark blue cloth. pp xiv, 447; x, 354; ix. 484, indexed. Papers presented at the inaugural conference of the Center for Political Study at the University of Chicago. Forwards by Charles U. Daly. Fine copies, no owner marks. Jacket spines have wear at head, VG otherwise.. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 22013More details Price: USD $40.00 -
EPOCHS OF CHINESE & JAPANESE ART. New and Revised Edition, with Copious Notes by Professor Petrucci. (2 volumes)
New York / London: Stokes / Heinemann, 1921. Two volumes, original yellow cloth and light brown boards. pp [2], (xxxviii), 204; xiv, 235. Indexed, notes, glossary. Volume I has 99 plates (4 in colour), Volume II has 124 plates (11 in colour), the colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Spines lightly darkened; cloth splits to rear joint of Vol I neatly repaired; ink ownership name on each front pastedown; else a VG clean and tight pair. First published in 1912. A scholarly survey by an important author, formerly a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University in Tokyo and Commissioner of Fine Arts to the Japanese government. 2 kg parcel,
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21429More details Price: USD $195.00 -
ESCAPE OF THE AMETHYST
Edition: First US edition
New York: Coward - McCann, c1957. Black boards, illustrated endpapers. pp 274 + plates. VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names, Price-clipped jacket has small chips, short tears internally repaired, spine rubbing, good. Account of this small RN frigate which was proceeding up the Yangtze River in April, 1949, when she was attacked by a Chinese Communist battery. Manned by a young crew at half-strength, with her captain and 16 others dead, she was grounded and held captive for months. Finally, under fire, she made a break for it and escaped. An epic of naval history.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48393More details Price: USD $14.95 -
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, 320 pp, red boards. Rubber stamped remainder mark on title page, else fine in fine jacket, flap price intact. Flashman # 8. China in 1860.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41677More details Price: USD $24.95 -
FOREIGN MUD: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1947. Green cloth. pp 300, (v, index) + plates. Spine a bit sunned and darkened, page edges yellowed, ink owner name, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48178More details Price: USD $19.95 -
FOUR CAUTIONARY TALES. Translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton and Lee Yi-Shieh. With a Preface by Arthur Waley (inscribed by Harold Acton)
Edition: First US issue
New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. Made from sheets of the London: John Lehman, 1947, edition. Yellow cloth. Shallow bruise to fore edge of front cover; touch of sunning to spine tips; just a little leaned;; page edges yellowed; else fine. Jacket has a bit of soiling to rear panel; shallow chip & short tears to head of spine; corners of front flap clipped (by publisher?); spine slightly darkened; VG otherwise. INSCRIBED BY HAROLD ACTON "To dear Jim, a brief souvenir of my stay in Kansas City, Mo. with love from Harold. 1948". 17th century Chinese literature, previously published in English by the Golden Cockerel Press.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52972More details Price: USD $125.00 -
FRIENDS, GUESTS, AND COLLEAGUES. The Mu-Fu System in the Late Ch'ing Period.
Edition: First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Yellow cloth. (2), (x), 234, (2) pp + pates. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has two inch tear internally mended, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 6053More details Price: USD $19.95 -
From China to Canada : A History of Canada's Peoples from China to Canada
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Library discard, with label taped to spine, rubber stamped digits to verso of title leaf, barcode sticker at rear, private owner name at front, else a VG clean and unworn copy. pp 369 + plates; index, glossary, bibliography, many tables. Not issued in hardcover. Uncommon.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 47994More details Price: USD $24.95 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47937More details Price: USD $24.95 -
IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND An Account of a Journey into Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release brought about by Dr. Wilson and the Political Peshkar, Karak Sing-Pal
Edition: First US edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49931More details Price: USD $175.00 -
IN THE SEA OF STERILE MOUNTAINS: the Chinese in British Columbia
Edition: First edition
Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1974. Red cloth. pp (xiv), 280, [2]. Index. VG+. no owner names. Jacket has creases and small tears, one internal repair, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41881More details Price: USD $19.95