Taihoku: Taiwan Governor General's Office, 1940. Second printing, 16mo, pp. [4], 8, 352, [10], [2]; parallel text in Japanese and Chinese with Japanese introduction and furigana aids; one chart plate; modern burgundy library buckram, original printed paper wrappers bound in; wrappers soiled, else near fine. Etsu, or Yue, is a...... More
Taipei: Taiwan Student Bookstore, 1978. Large 8vos, 3 volumes, facsimiles of four Qing dramas and their collations; text in Chinese; green limp cloth covers, fine in fine clamshell box. The dramas represented are "荔鏡記" "荔枝記" "荔枝記" and "金花女" More
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Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1996. 4to, 3 vols, pp. 132; 136; 128; text in Traditional Chinese; color text illustrations thoughout; printed paper wrappers; corners a little bumped, else fine, with vols. 1 and 2 in the original cardboard slipcase and vol. 3 accompanying as issued. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project..... More
Kyoto: Kyoto University, 1953. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 261, xi, [4]; color frontispiece, 29 plates including 8 folding, one folding map; text in Japanese with an English table of contents; errata slip tipped in; original green buckram, gilt title on spine; light bumping, text clean and bright, near fine. With..... More
[Beijing]: China Railway Publishing House, [1993]. First edition, 4to, pp. [10], 177, [5]; text in Chinese with English introduction; illustrated throughout with 420 images of workers and engines; red pictorial paper wrappers; corners bumped, else fine. A photo retrospective of the Mao Zedong locomotive group. More
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, pp. 298; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout; fine in original shrinkwrap. Hansheng Magazine was an award winning project, dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the English magazine ECHO before shifting..... More
[Taipei: Taiwan Governor's Office Culture and Education Bureau, ca. 1938]. Folding map, approx. 13.25 x 12"; top down showing elevation, roads and major buildings. Unattributed but identical in style to similar maps produced by the Japanese colonial government on Taiwan and likely part of a larger set. Some wear at..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Culture University, 1988. Approx 10" x 7.5"; 2 vols; text illustrations throughout; text in Chinese; perfect bound in cream paper wrappers, near fine. A study of the career of early modern architect Lu Yujun. More
Beijing: Ditu Chuban She, 1982. Color folding map, 29 x 20.75"; inset of the city of Fuzhou; showing waterways, roads towns and political boundaries; some creasing and old folds, clean and very good. Stanford, LOC, Georgia and Princeton in OCLC. More
[Hiroshima]: Hiroshima University, 1956. 8vo, pp. 4, 190; text in Chinese, Japanese, English, German and French; printed via duplication process; teal library buckram; touch of soiling to bards and foxing to endpapers, text clean and sound, very good. A short title list of references. More
[n.p. c. 1980s?]. Square 12mo, pp. [1]. 10-176; text consisting of Minnan dialog in romanized transliteration with instruction in grammar and pronunciation in Chinese; staple bound in printed paper wrappers; wrappers soiled, a couple pen annotations in the text, otherwise clean, very good. Minnan is spoken in Southeast China, Taiwan..... More
[Aukland: Allen's Enterprises Ltd., 2001]. First edition, folio, pp. 171, [5]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
[Stockholm]: Amaryllis, [2006]. First and only edition, 8vo, pp. 151, [1]; CD inserted in pocket insde back cover; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. Silenced takes up questions about the media, censorship and human rights in China and Tibet. It tells about how censorship bodies operate in China, about why..... More
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [24], 283, [3]; [10], 269, [23]; 12 lithograph portraits, 1 woodcut; contemporary black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on gilt paneled spines; edges stained blue; very good and sound. Lust, 109 (citing the first edition of 1843 which only had..... More
New York: Charles B. Norton, 1854. First edition, 8vo, pp. 137, [1]; rebacked with original covers laid down, front cover lettered in gilt; cloth soiled, some underlining and marginal ticks, light damp staining to corner, good and sound. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1989]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 220; 16 pages of Chinese facsimile; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Princeton Library of Asian Translation series. More
San Francisco: Desiderata Press, [1999]. First edition, folio, pp. 239, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page and with a brief autograph note from Lauren Arnold to a professor anticipating her "talk in February." More
Princeton & Seattle: Princeton University Press / Seattle Art Museum, [2001]. First edition, folio, pp. 359, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; first several leavesw dog-eared, else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This book "accompanies a major traveling exhibition of bronze, jade, and clay objects dating..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2000. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], xxxvii, [1], 430 [i.e. 429], [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang (Hsuan-tsang 600-664) ranks among the greatest Chinese travelers of all times. He left China for India in 629..... More
Taipei: SMC Publishers, 1996. First edition, folio, pp. xxxii, 545, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in at the back. This survey covers a group of 28 inscribed bronze ritualk vessels and bells. In English with some text and one article in Chinese. More
London: printed by A. Strahan for T.Cadell and W. Davis, 1804. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [3], 632; 3 engraved plates (2 double-p.), 5 hand-colored aquatints after William Alexander, a little light foxing to text and plain plates, frontispiece slightly offset; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. 4to, pp. [8], 201, [1]; typescript text, gray still card backed in red cloth, owner's signature of Mark Selden on title page, near fine. Originally published as a dissertation in 1948, it was republished as "the farthest point of progress in the Western study of..... More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], v-xiii, [1], 248; pictorial endpapers, 58 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 25 plates; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt. More
[Washington, D.C. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Joint Publications Research Service, 1968]. Thick 4to, pp. [8], 845, [1]; photocopied from typescript; text in double column; original printed wrappers (with U.S. Dept. of Commerce imprint) bound in black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. "This..... More
