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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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48178More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. 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
Book ID: 52972More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
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.; Octavo
Book ID: 6053More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. ; Octavo 0771022417
Book ID: 47994More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
GATEWAY TO THE CHINESE CLASSICS: a practical guide to literary Chinese
Edition: Second Printing
San Francisco: China Books, 1997. Chinese language instruction.; Quarto; (2), xviii, (124) pages
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54769More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
GOD'S CHINESE SON: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Edition: First printing
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
Book ID: 54443More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47937More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
I CHING: book of changes
Edition: Fourth Printing
New York: Gramercy, 1996. Octavo
Book ID: 54742More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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
Book ID: 54532More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 41881More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
INTERMEDIATE CHINESE
Edition: First
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
Book ID: 54249More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
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.
Book ID: 12626More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
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.; Octavo
Book ID: 51293More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50656More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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.
Book ID: 15585More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
McCLURE: the China Years of Dr. Bob McClure
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 45734More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. 0066211328
Book ID: 15981More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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.
Book ID: 45303More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
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.; Octavo.
Book ID: 41602More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
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.; Octavo
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 40999More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65