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. ; Octavo

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. Inscribed by Author; 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.; 12mo; Signed by Author

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.; Octavo

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. ; Octavo 0771022417

San Francisco: China Books, 1997. Chinese language instruction.; Quarto; (2), xviii, (124) pages

New York: Norton, 1996. Yellow cloth. Illustrations, maps, index. Fine in fine jacket. The bloody Taiping Rebellion of 1845-64. At least 20 million Chinese died. 1.1 kg parcel; Octavo; (xx), (400) pages

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

New York: Gramercy, 1996. Octavo

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. ; Octavo

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Green cloth. Index. VG clean and unworn jacketless copy, no owner marks. "This text is the second in a series of three closely integrated volumes of spoken Chinese for use at the high-school and college levels. Intermediate Chinese presents dialogues on everyday topics together with analysis of anticipated points of difficulty for the student and numerous sentences illustrating the usage of all new words and grammar." 1.4 kg parcel.; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; xii, 542 pages

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Octavo, blue cloth spine with paper label and pictorial boards boldly illustrated in colour. Light rubbing to edges of boards; a VG bright, tight jacketless copy otherwise, no previous owner names. The third Kai Lung book. Not actually crime fiction.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. Variant in blue non-pictorial wrappers with cover imprint of The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Toronto. pp 297. Spine tanned, covers a bit faded, Sunday school rubber stamp on half-title page, yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise. A novel of Canadian missionaries in China. Watters p. 328.; Octavo

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

Toronto: Ryerson, 1954. Yellow cloth. Bit of darkening to front gutter, else fine, no names. Red dust jacket has nicks and a little rubbing to spine tips; short tears to rear panel; VG and bright. A novel set in China.

New York: HarperCollins (Harper Collins), 2002. ADVANCE READING COPY. Octavo, 450 pp. Glossy pictorial card covers. Fine copy. "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of SOUL MOUNTAIN comes a deeply moving and surprisingly candid novel about one man's experience of China's Cultural Revolution - offering readers a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, and on the effects of political oppression on the human psyche." - rear cover. 0066211328

Toronto: Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada, 1929. The paper issue in grey card covers, endpaper maps. pp [2], xiv, 222, [2] + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and 7 double-sided plates. Spine faintly yellowed; a fine copy. Chinese, Japanese, and East Indian immigrants in Canada, all in need of Christianity, obviously. Size: Small octavo.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. Cloth & boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. "A Chinese Detective Story", the last full-length Judge Dee novel.; Octavo.

London: Luzon, 1966. Octavo, pale grey boards. pp x, 77 + frontispiece portrait and plates at rear. Errata slip tipped in. Small light tan spot on rear cover, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a small brown spot on rear panel and very lightly yellowed spine, else fine. Cheng was a great authority on Confucianism, a justice for the UN, and the Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United Kingdom. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Octavo