Friends, guests and colleagues. The Mu-fu system in the late Ch'ing period
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 234; frontispiece map; fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 234; frontispiece map; fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. More
New York: John B. Alden, 1884. First American edition, 12mo. pp. 215; black & white frontispiece portrait, ownership inscription and stamp on front blank; original green cloth with a dragon stamped in gilt on front cover; fine. Major-General Charles George Gordon, also know as Chinese Gordon, was a British Army..... More
Paris: Éditions J. Susse, n.d., [1943]. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies (this no. 5); 8vo, pp. 130, [8]; illustrated frontispiece, 46 full-page photographs by the author and 85 illustrations from drawings by "LEP"; this copy contains 12 of the original drawings tipped onto sheets and inserted next to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. 8vo, pp. xvii, 291, [20] pages of black and white photographic illustrations; black buckram in tri-color printed price-clipped dust jacket, small tear to top of dj spine, otherwise very good. Personal narrative on the Sino-Japanese War. More
Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1987. Third edition, folio, pp. xvi, 375, [1]; text in double column, colored frontispiece and numerous black & white illustrations; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Shanghai: Shanghai University Press, [2008]. 8vo, pp. [6], 512; text in Chinese with pinyin for each entry, definitions also in Chinese; pictorial paper covered boards; light soiling to fore-edge, else fine. More
Hong Kong: Ta Chia Publishers, 1977. 24mo, pp. [8], 7, [1], 6, 806; text in double column; 16 leaves of color illustrations; blue cloth gilt; light creasing to spine, text clean and sound, near fine. More
Moscow: Nauka, 1967. 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; printed paper wrappers; call label on spine; light toning, near fine. Part of the Fifty Years of Soviet Oriental Studies series. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1954]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 472; frontispiece and 26 figures in the text, 28 illustrations, mostly from photographs, on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. "The first comprehensive study of a Chinesae rtural community" (jacket..... More
London: Faber & Faber, [1970]. Second edition (first published in 1962); 8vo, pp. [6], 120; 8 color plates and numerous black & white illustrations on rectos and vers of 48 plates at the back; near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. More
Oakland: Mills College [printed at the Gillick Press], [1945]. Small 4to, pp. [24] plus 26 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 14 plates (including title-p.); original black wrappers printed in red, spiral bound; some foxing, largely confined to the margins, all else very good. More
London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai, Hongkong [et al]: Kelly and Walsh, 1912. 2 volumes, very large, thick 4to, pp. xviii, 84, 840; [2], 841- 1711, [1]; later black cloth, gilt lettering direct on spine; title page in volume I neatly remargined, 2 old tape stains at the bottom, blue pencil lines..... More
[Taipei: Literature House, 1964]. First reprinting of the second edition, 2 volumes in 1, thick 4to, pp. xviii, 84, 1711, [1]; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. The work took eighteen years to compile and another two years just to print it. "The..... More
London: printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, sold at the British Museum and by Longman and Co. [et al.], 1911. 4to, pp. xx, 100, [2]; text in English and Chinese, lexicon in double column; original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; about fine. An index to the "great..... More
[Woodbridge, Suffolk]: ACC Art Books, [2015]. First edition, folio, pp. 172; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "A mysterious group of carpets and tapestries, created along the Silk Route over 500 years ago, is the topic of this richly illustrated book. The carpets and..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, [1990]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 230; map; fine in dust wrapper. More
London: Downey & Co., 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. 161, [3]; final leaf containing a book list with canceled prices; portrait frontispiece, text illustrations, tables, and examples of Murray's type; original yellow cloth, brown lettering and decoration; tipped in is the 12th Annual Report of the Mission to the Chinese..... More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 600; fine copy in original printed laminate boards. Issued as volume VII in the publisher's Handbook of Oriental Studies series. A comprehensive grammar of Manchu, the official language in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), covering the writing system, morphology..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1904. 8vo, pp. 74; some soiling, else very good in orig. maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-MHS. Issued under the auspices of the Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography. More
Saigon: Société des études indochinoises, [1960-63]. 3 volumes, large 8vo, folding map, illustrations in the text; nice set in original printed wrappers. Bulletin de la Société des études indochinoises, Nouvelle série 35, 36, and 38; Collection Unesco d'oeuvres représentatives. The Three Kingdoms, originally published in 1522, is a Chinese historical..... More
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1999. Square 8vo, pp. 216; text in Traditional Chinese; 167 pages of color diagrams illustrating dance patterns; printed paper wrappers, fine. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1985. 8vo, pp. [6], 226; printed red and white paper wrappers; gutter split but leaves still secure, very good or better. Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series Volume 148. A history through primary documents. More
New York: Columbia University Press, [2004]. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 285, [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as volume 2 in the publisher's Masters of Chinese Studies series. "The eleven research essays in this volume, although written as independent pieces, share a common subject, Chinese..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, [2001]. First edition, folio, pp. [12], 417, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Berkeley and Toronto: Ten Speed Press, [2004]. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], 233, [1]; color illustrations throughout, most full-page; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in fine dust jacket. More