[Beijing]: March, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 12, [2], 793, [1]; tables and diagrams throughout, some in color, 2 folding; stiff card wrappers with original red plastic dust jacket lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine. A selection of production guidelines and labor practices enacted from..... More

[1932- 1940]. 23 offprint pamphlets, most with original wrappers, all bound in red cloth, with a presentation inscription from the author to "Dr. Leo Alexander, my teacher in neuropathology." Leo Alexander was an American psychiatrist best known as a key medical advisor of the Nuremberg Trials and the author of..... More

Aldershot, etc. Ashgate Variorum, [1999]. 8vo, pp. x, 340; full blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; textblock just starting to tone, else fine. The Variorum Collected Studies Series reprints papers published elsewhere to create topic-based references. More

New York, New Haven, London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, [2008]. First edition, folio, pp. xii, 236; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past..... More

Lanham, Oxford, New York: University Press of America, 1998. 8vo, pp.xxxi, [1], 549, [1]; original blue cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; labelremoved from base of spine and old library rubberstamp on p. [iii]; all else near fine. More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 415, [1]; 2 maps (1 double-page), tables in the text; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. "This book presents twenty-six essays by one of the great Chinese linguists of our time. They cover over a half-century of..... More

Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, 2 issues in one, pp. 215; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout; pictorial paper covered boards; fine in original shrink wrap. Hansheng Magazine is an award winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded..... More

Tainan: Lan Ki Bookstore, 1947. First edition, 16mo, pp. [2], 772; lexicon in double column; text in Chinese with Mandarin pronunciation in bopomofo and Taiwanese pronunciation in Romanized characters; original front wrapper bound in; a few early leaves with ragged margins (no loss of text), occasional stains, some toning, but..... More

Singapore: NUS Press, [2015]. 8vo, pp.xxix, [1], 309, [1]; 2 plates, 9 maps, 5 tables and figures in the text; fine copy in oiriginal pictorial wrappers. More

Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 288, [6] ads; 32 pages of facsimiles, several illustrations in the text; fine copy in original green cloth printed in white. Without a dust jacket, as issued. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XXVI. "The German philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and..... More

Taiwan: Council for Cultural Planning and Development, 1987. First edition, 11.5" x 8.25", pp. 208; building plans and color photos throughout; perfect bound in stiff pictorial paper covers, label residue on upper flyleaf, else fine. An excellent survey of 18 important historical sites. More

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1959. 12mo, pp. 44; black and white photographs, covers lightly soiled, else very good in original pictorial wrappers. Chen Ching-Kai, China's famous Olympic bantam-weight lifter, held the record (at the time of publication) lifting 140.5 kg. More

Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. 186, [4] ads; fine copy in original printed green wrappers. More