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EAST GOES WEST (inscribed)
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 50856More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950-53
Edition: First printing
New York: Clarion Books, 2003. Brown boards. pp 136; index, photos. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48736More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SINGULIER CHAMP DE BATAILLE: Les operations en Corée et leurs effets sur la politique de défense du Canada
Edition: First edition in French
Ottawa: Ministre de la Défense nationale, 1966. Tall octavo, red cloth, colour endpaper maps. pp vi, 354 + 7 colour maps (2 folding), colour frontispiece, b&w photos. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has two tears, some creasing at fore margins from the excess surface lamintation, else good. Historie officielle de l'Armée canadienne en Corée. Text is in French. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33178More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
TERRY'S JAPANESE EMPIRE, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan. A guidebook for travellers. With 8 specially drawn maps and 21 plans
Edition: First UK issue
London: Constable, 1914. Thick 16mo, red cloth gilt lettered, endpaper ads, sprinkled page edges and rounded corners. pp (cclxxxiv), 799, (61, ads) + 8 colour maps and 21 plans (all but frontispiece folding). Memorial bookplate of Ross H. Macdonald on verso of front free endpaper, two short tears to first folding map neatly repaired on blank side with clear archival paper tape, light sticker stain to lower spine, else a fine copy. Prof. Macdonald, of Victoria College, University of Toronto, taught the first course on Korean culture (1971-72) at a Canadian university; an undergraduate scholarship in East Asian studies is awarded by the University of Toronto in his memory.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41944More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
The historian’s guide, or, Britains’s remembrancer. For the last century. Being a summary of all the principal actions, exploits, sieges, battels, designs...
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49678More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
THE MARTYRED (ARC)
Edition: First printing
New York: Braziller, 1964. Advance reading copy in non-pictorial printed card covers. Covers creased, page edges yellowed, generally VG otherwise. A novel of the Korean War by a young officer who served with the ROK and US armies for the full duration of this "police action". The novel "is not about the battlefield, it is about the conflict in the souls of men." - cover. This first novel was nominated for the National Book Award and was the basis of a film.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43257More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The Royal Canadian Regiment, Volume Two 1933-1966
Edition: First edition.
London, Ontario: London Printing & Lithographing Co, 1967. Dark blue cloth, endpaper maps. xii, 420 pp + 8 folding maps, many photos (one in colour at front). Fine copy, no owner names. Yellow dust jacket has a few tears and nicks to front and rear panels, VG and bright otherwise . Invasion of Sicily, Italian campaign, the Schelde, Ijssel, Apledoorn to the end of hostilities. On cease fire, the Regiment was tasked to disarm enemy forces. During the Korean War, the Regiment sent three battalions. There are eight appendices, including: Rolls of Honour for the Second World War and United Nations Operations in Korea. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39193More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
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 USD $36.00 -
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 USD $67.50 -
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 USD $40.50