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INDISCRETIONS OF LADY SUSAN
Edition: First printing
London: Butterworth, 1922. Light brown cloth. pp 314 + plates. Index. Ink owner name at front, vertical crease to rear free endpaper, else a VG jacketless copy. Lady Susan was the wife of British diplomat Walter Townley Chapters on Lisbon, Berlin, Peking, Constantinople, Argentina, Bucharest, Persia, Netherlands and Belgium near the end of WWI, and more.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44525More details Price: USD $25.00 -
IU-KIAO-LI; or, The Two Fair Cousins. A Chinese novel. From the French of M. Abel-Remusat
Edition: First edition in English
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47069More details Price: USD $450.00 -
JOURNAL OF THE BIGANTINE HOPE ON A VOYAGE TO THENORTHWEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 1790-92. Illustrated with Charts and Drawings by the Author
Edition: First of this edition
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. Quarter bound in mustard cloth with paper spine label and grey boards illustrated in green and gold on front cover. pp [4], (xxx), (250) + 10 double-sided plates. Very nearly fine, no owner names, lacking slipcase. Falkland Islands, around the Horn, Marquesas, Sandwich Islands, China, Nootka Sound, crusing the Northwest Coast. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25959More details Price: USD $40.00 -
KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT
Edition: First US printing
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 12626More details Price: USD $50.00 -
KNIGHTS WHO FOUGHT THE DRAGON
Edition: First Canadian edition.
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51293More details Price: USD $85.00 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50656More details Price: USD $24.95 -
LADY OF THE YELLOW RIVER.
Edition: First Canadian edition
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15585More details Price: USD $19.50 -
McCLURE: the China Years of Dr. Bob McClure
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45734More details Price: USD $19.95 -
ONE MAN'S BIBLE. A Novel. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee (ARC)
Edition: First American edition
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 15981More details Price: USD $15.00 -
ORIENTALS IN CANADA: the story of the work of the United Church of Canada with Asiatics in Canada
Edition: First Edition
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45303More details Price: USD $75.00 -
POETS AND MURDER. A Chinese Detective Story. With Eight Illustrations by the Author in Chinese Style.
Edition: First US printing
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41602More details Price: USD $39.95 -
REFLECTIONS AT EIGHTY
Edition: First Edition
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.
Condition: Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40999More details Price: USD $18.50 -
SCRIBNER’S Magazine Vol. LXXXI, No. 1, January 1927
New York: Scribner's, 1927. Small quarto, illustrated paper covers. Nicks and creases to yapp edges of covers, else fine. Contains “The Young Cowboy” a story, with his illustrations, by Will James. Also “Captured by Chinese Bandits”, an article by Thomas Jeffries Betts, Capt., U.S. Army, which involves opium use.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 32771More details Price: USD $25.00 -
SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS LA TARTARIE, LE THIBET ET LA CHINE Pendant les annees 1844, 1845 et 1846. Deuxième édition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44115More details Price: USD $150.00 -
THE BIG CHARIOT
Edition: First US edition
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. Red cloth, endpaper maps. Yellowing to page edges, else fine and bright, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has nicks and rubbing at spine ends, small tear to front panel, VG otherwise. An historical novel about the fall of China's Ming Dynasty n 1643.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39996More details Price: USD $19.95 -
The Blackbird's Song
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1987. Cream boards. Fine in fine jacket. Review copy for William French with slip laid in. Author's first novel, set against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49250More details Price: USD $14.95 -
THE BOXER UPRISING: a study
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Second printing. Green cloth. pp xiv, 349. Index, bibliography, map. Two ink names at front, spine sunned to tan, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44488More details Price: USD $19.00 -
THE BREEZE IN THE MOONLIGHT. "The Second Book of Genius". Translated from the Chinese by George Soulie de Morant and Done Into English by H. Bedford-Jones.
Edition: First edition of this translation
New York: Putnam, 1926. Octavo. Blue linen grain pictorial cloth stamped in silver (also noted in blue ribbed cloth stamped in black and in orange cloth). Blue topstain. Green on cream pictorial endpapers. xviii, 371, (3) pp. Illustrations in text. In addition to the translation, Bedford-Jones adds a 3 page postscript to the Soulie de Morant preface. Ink name and two rubber stamps to front endpapers; rubber stamp to verso of front free endpaper; hairline crack to front inner hinge neatly reglued; VG otherwise. A scarce edition. Watters p. 245. One of the most famous novels of China, written toward the end of the 14th century by an author who used the pen name Ming-tsiao Chong-jen.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 5483More details Price: USD $45.00 -
THE DR. MARCOS C.O. TANG COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOXES
Edition: First Edition
Hong Kong: Han Mo Xuan Company, 1991. Large quarto, black cloth. pp (256). Colour reproductions. Text in Chinese and English. Fine in VG, lightly rubbed, dust jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41936More details Price: USD $95.00 -
THE DRAGON'S JAWS. A Million-Dollar Ransom in Diamonds.
Edition: First printing
Garden City, New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1937. Orange cloth, spine stamped in black, top edges orange, cream endpapers. [2], (viii), 310 pp. Soft crease at head of spine, light browning to inner margins of endpapers, else a VG, jacketless copy, no owner names. A tale of intrigue set in China, featuring "the evil, mysterious Lan Chao-tao, a Chinese star bandit whom few have ever seen but whose appalling activities have spreak octopuslike throughout the world."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21529More details Price: USD $19.00