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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 -
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM THE T.T. TSUI GALLERIES OF CHINESE ART
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1996. Card covers. pp 127. Colour reproductions. Fine copy. .97 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 54136More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS LA TARTARIE, LE THIBET ET LA CHINE Pendant les annees 1844, 1845 et 1846. Deuxième édition
Book ID: 44115More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00
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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.
Book ID: 39996More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. ; Octavo 0889241910
Book ID: 49250More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE BOOK OF SONGS. Translated from the Chinese
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Grove Press, 1960. Evergreen Original E-209. "one of the Five Confucian Classics and one of the most important collections of poetry in the world. It is the most ancient and finest treasury of traditional songs which antiquity has left us."; Octavo; 358 pages
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54635More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
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.
Book ID: 44488More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
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.
Book ID: 5483More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE CONFUCIAN WAY: a new and systematic study of "The Four Books". Translated from the Chinese by Shih Shun Liu. Foreword by Joseph Needham
London: KPI, 1987. Octavo; (8), (xxvi), 614 pages
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54664More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
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.
Book ID: 41936More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
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."; Octavo.
Book ID: 21529More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
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.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 20153More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE FLOWERING PLUM AND THE PALACE LADY: interpretations of Chinese poetry
Edition: Second Printing
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Octavo; (xiv), 276 pages
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54624More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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; Octavo
Book ID: 51144More details Price: USD $135.00 USD $121.50 -
THE GREAT PLATEAU: being an account of exploration in central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 47714More details Price: USD $850.00 USD $765.00 -
THE LECHEROUS ACADEMICIAN & other tales by Master Ling Mengchu. Translated from the Chinese by John Scott.
Edition: First Edition
London: Andre Deutsch / Rapp + Whiting, 1973. Brown boards. Fine in VG jacket, no owner marks. "This complete and unexpurgated rendering of some of the tales of Ling Mengchu is the first into any European language (with the exception of one of the stories)" - jacket.; Small octavo.; 176 pages
Book ID: 54793More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE ORIGINAL ANALECTS: sayings of Confucius and his successors
Edition: First printing
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. B&W Illustrations; Octavo; x, 342 pages
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 54602More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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
Book ID: 43075More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
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. ; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 36216More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50