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THE FAR EAST UNVEILED. An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the Year 1916.
Edition: First Edition
London: Cassell, 1918. Dark green cloth. (xiv), 304 pp, index. Bit of wear to tips of bit darkened spine and to outer corners of covers; text paper lightly yellowed; pencil owner name; a VG, tight copy otherwise.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 20153More details Price: USD $35.00 -
THE FLOWERY REPUBLIC
Edition: First printing
London: Murray, 1913. Red cloth gilt. pp xiv, 489 + 18 plates (some double-sided) and 2 plates (complete). Spine lightly sunned, small bump to one corner of front cover, yellowing to endpapers and page edges, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Publisher's complimentary slip laid in. China in revolution. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51144More details Price: USD $135.00 -
THE GREAT PLATEAU: being an account of exploration in central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47714More details Price: USD $850.00 -
THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIR PATRICK MANSON
Edition: First US issue
New York: William Wood. Octavo, green cloth. pp [2], (xii), (274), [2] pp + 12 plates. 1927 ink owner name at front, else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy. Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), a Scottish physician, is known as the father of tropical medicine. He was the one who proposed the link between mosquitos and malaria. He practiced in Hong Kong for many years, where he founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, which later became the University of Hong Kong.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40552More details Price: USD $40.00 -
THE NEW FAR WEST AND THE OLD FAR EAST: Being notes on a tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc
Edition: First edition.
London: Edward Stanford, 1889. Octavo, green pictorial cloth gilt, black endpapers. pp (xii), 316, (4, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard + 7 other plates + 3 colour folding maps. Book a bit leaned, some foxing early and late, yellowing and foxing to the page edges, else a fine, bright copy, no owner names, inner hinges not cracked. The first 11 chapters deal with his journey from Toronto to Vancouver Island.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36645More details Price: USD $195.00 -
The Opening of Tibet. An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4. With an Introduction by Francis Younghusband.
Edition: First US edition
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905. Dark green stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered, top edges gilt, title page in red & black. pp (xvi), 484, (1, ad), [3] + mounted colour frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous b&w photos. Mild wear to spine tips and outer corners, short tear at bottom of title leaf neatly mended; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG clean, bright and tight copy, no owner names. Landon was the Special Correspondent of "The Times" who went with Younghusband's British military operation to open Tibet to British and Indian trade. An important Tibet book. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30108More details Price: USD $125.00 -
THE SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT[bound with ] THE AMERICAN COMMISSION ON CONDITIONS IN IRELAND: INTERIM REPORT [bound with] reports and history of The Catholic Sailors' Club of Montreal. [5 works bound together]
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43075More details Price: USD $75.00 -
THE STORY OF TOPSY: Little Lonely of Central Asia
Edition: First printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in white, endpaper maps. pp viii, 9-212 + plates. Illustrations in text. Light rubbing to spine ends, tidy ink owner name at top margin of half-title page; else fine. The dust jacket has a chip at head of lightly yellowed white spine, with loss of one letter and part of another affected; VG+ otherwise, flap price intact. Missionaries in China at the western extremity of the Great Wall, Mongolia to the north, Tibet to the south.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36216More details Price: USD $35.00 -
THE THREE BLOSSOMS OF CHANG-AN
Edition: First printing
London: Cresset Press, 1942. Octavo, beige cloth. pp (x), 249. Ink gift inscription at front, page edges yellowed, light yellowing to endpapers, else a VG+ copy. The thin wartime jacket (art by Roger Furse) has a bit darkend spine, with a chip at head and near centre, but no lettering lost; slightly foxed and yellowed; just good, but still respectable in appearance. Chinese man at his writing table on front panel. A novel set in 8th century Ming China, a story on a scroll uncovered in an old tomb. Prequel to his novel PEONY.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40711More details Price: USD $20.00 -
THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG
New York: Doran, no date, 1900. Early printing (no Doran monogram to verso of title leaf) of the 2nd (and nicest) US edition. Orange cloth with blue paper spine label, colorful pictorial boards, orange cloth corner tips. Rubbing and tiny chips to top edge of spine label; page edge s yellowed; else a fine copy, no previous owner marks, covers clean and unrubbed. First Kai Lung book, it was first published London and Boston in 1900, with the first Doran printing in 1923.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11656More details Price: USD $29.95 -
THE WEST IN THE EAST from an American Point of View.
Edition: First Canadian issue.
Toronto: McClelland & Goodchild, 1911. Dark green cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp [2], (xii), 534. Bookplate on front free endpaper, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Of the 11 chapters (plus a Conclusion), the first 8 are about his experiences in India. Chapter 9 is on China, 10 on Japan, and 11 on "Things Japanese, Korean, and Manchurian.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11073More details Price: USD $40.00 -
THE WEST IN THE EAST FROM AND AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW
Edition: First UK edition
London: Duckworth, 1913. pp [2], (xii), 534, [2]. In a nice full red calf school prize binding (St. John’s College, Rupert’s Land), spine with two labels, elaborate gilt decoration, sides with decorative gilt borders, gilt arms of school on front cover, marbled endpapers and page edges, bound-in ribbong marker. 1914 ink prize inscription at front; a fine copy. Of the 11 chapters (plus a Conclusion), the first 8 are about his experiences in India. Chapter 9 is on China, 10 on Japan, and 11 on "Things Japanese, Korean, and Manchurian.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27598More details Price: USD $75.00 -
THINGS CHINESE, or notes connected with China.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41960More details Price: USD $125.00 -
TOBIT TRANSPLANTED
Edition: First printing
London: Macmillan, 1931. Octavo, green cloth. Yellowing and some foxing to page edges and endpapers, else a near fine jacketless copy, no owner names. A novel of exiled White Russians in Manchuria.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39335More details Price: USD $20.00 -
WARRIORS OF CRIME: Chinese Secret Societies-The New Mafia
Edition: First edition.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. Octavo, cloth & boards. Pp xviii, 289, (5) + plates, indexed. Fine in price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31568More details Price: USD $18.50 -
WILLIAM ROBERT BROUGHTON'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC 1795-1798. With an Introduction by Barry Gough
Edition: First edition
London: Ashgate, for The Hakluyt Society, 2010. Blue cloth. pp lxxxii, 315. Index. 12 maps and 9 figures. Errata sheet tipped in at p lxx. Series III, Volume 22. Fine in fine jacket. Survey of the east coast of Asia. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51642More details Price: USD $45.00