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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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48032More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A TAOIST PEARL
Edition: First Canadian issue
Book ID: 35850More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
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. 0969117302.
Book ID: 18314More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
BEGINNING CHINESE READER Part I and Part II (Two volumes)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Second edition, revised. Red cloth. pp xxxiv, 505; (v), 506- 1012. VG clean and unworn jacketless copies. 2.55 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 54174More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
BEST CHINESE STORIES (1949-1989)
Edition: First printing
Beijing: Panda Books / Chinese Literature Press, 1989. Silver card covers with flaps. Slight yellowing to page edges, else fine.; Octavo; (4), (503) pages
Book ID: 54307More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
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.
Book ID: 44273More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BLACK FLAGS IN VIETNAM: the story of a Chinese intervention
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Macmillan, 1968. 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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54835More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
"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.
Book ID: 40989More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
CHARACTER TEXT FOR BEGINNING CHINESE
Edition: Second Edition; Later Printing
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. A few light pencil annotations, mainly in early pages, yellowing inside covers.; Third printing. Blue cloth. pp (4), 436. A fine, jacketless copy; Octavo; 519 pages
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54260More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
CHARACTER TEXT FOR BEGINNING CHINESE
Edition: First; Later Printing
New Haven: Yale University Press for Seton Hall University, 1966. Third printing. Blue cloth. pp (4), 436. A fine, jacketless copy; Octavo
Book ID: 54159More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
CHARACTER TEXT FOR COLLOQUIAL CHINESE: Full-Form Character Version
Edition: Third Printing
London: Author, 1989. Quarto; 198 pages
Book ID: 54714More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
CHINA: a new history
Edition: First Printing
Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1992. pp (xx), 519 + plates; maps in text, index. 1.3 kg parcel; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 54737More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
CHINA IN CONVULSION (Two volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 41986More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
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.; Octavo
Book ID: 22013More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
China Tide: The Revealing Story of the Hong Kong Exodus to Canada
Edition: First Printing
Toronto: Harper & Collins, 1989. Fine in fine jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 54195More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CHINA'S IMPERIAL PAST: an introduction to Chinese history and cultures
Edition: First Printing
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975. Black cloth. Includes 7 maps and an index. Private bookplate at front, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. 1.1 kg parcel; B&W Illustrations; Octavo; (xviii), 474 pages
Book ID: 54676More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
CHINESE RELIGIONS
Edition: First Edition
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1968. Green boards. pp (xiv), (222) + plates. Index. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has short tears, VG generally. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54622More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
COMPANION TO CHINESE HISTORY.
Edition: First printing
New York: Facts On File, 1987. Cloth and boards. Nearly 1000 entries. ; Octavo; 397 pages
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 54515More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
DAILY LIFE IN CHINA ON THE EVE OF THE MONGOL INVASIO N 1250-1276. Translated from the French by H.M. Wright
Edition: Later Printing
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970. Octavo; 254 pages
Condition: Very Good+
Book ID: 54683More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
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,; Quarto.
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 21429More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50