[Bloomington]: Indiana University, 1964-5. 5 vols., 11 x 8½", text duplicated from typescript; staple-bound in green paper covers; some sunning to covers, else fine. Fascicles cover Han Chinese, Mandarin and Chinese linguistic diversity, Kham-Thai languages, Miao-Yao, Chinese topolects such as Wu, Cantonese, Min, Hakka, Hsiang, Etc., Tibetan languages, Karen, and..... More
Beijing: Surveying and Mapping Pub. House, 1994. Folio, pp. [8], 271, [5]; color maps, diagrams, and photographs on geography, history, culture, urban development, etc.; text in Chinese; maroon patterned cloth with gilt title on spine and cover, in pictorial paper dust jacket, both fine, in a slip case with a...... More
Peking: [no publisher], 1940. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 1, [1], 2, 150, [2]; original printed paper wrappers; starting to tone, owner's chop on title page and one inner page, near fine. Also known as the Simla Convention, this meeting ultimately failed to settle the "Tibet question" as China refused..... More
Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1966. Small folio (11" x 7½"), pp. [4], 309, [3]; largely unopened; 42 plates, 11 figures in the text; original printed drab wrappers; very good, sound, and clean. Numerous articles of interest including: J. Filliozat. "Notice nécrologique: Jeanne Cuisinier (1890-1964)." - L. Berthe. "Bibliographie des œuvres..... More
[Tokyo]: Radiopress Inc., [1990]. 8vo, pp. [6], 24, 559, [1], 92, [2]; limp brown cloth; owner's stamp on top edge, musty, good. A directory of CCP department heads across the entire government, from the central committee and National People's Congress, to each ministry. major committees, military, unions and academic institutions..... More
[London]: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944-1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 542; xii, 370; xiv, 653, [1]; text illustrations, 61 maps and diagrams (one folding), 367 plates, large color folding map in back pocket; original green cloth; spines sunned and foxed, ownership signature of a "Parry-Williams" on endpapers; good and sound..... More
Taipei: China Publishing Co., [1964]. 8vo, pp. [6], xvi, 1007, [1]; text in double column; 2 large folding color maps (China and Taiwan); graphs, tables and a few illustrations in the text; very good, sound and clean in original brown pebble-grain cloth, gilt titling on spine. Major events, general information..... More
Nanking: International Relations Committee, 1933. 11.5 x 8.75 in., including vol. V, no. 2, 4-21 and vol. VI, no. 1-11, bound in 2 volumes, each issue 16 pages; library board backed in cloth; ex-Seattle library, with call numbers, bookplate and stamps, corner of one endpaper excised, one article with critical..... More
Beijing: Chinese Literature, 1983-1987. 8vo, 14 issues, including Oct. 1983, Spring/Summer/Fall 1984, Spring/Fall/Winter 1985, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 1986 and Spring/Summer/Fall 1987; color plates, pictorial paper wrappers; some toning to paper and some spines creased, overall near fine. A collection of Chinese literature and essays in translation, founded by Sidney Shapiro (one of..... More
Mount Vernon: the Peter Pauper Press, [1954]. Second edition, thin 8vo, pp. 85, [5]; woodcut vignettes, about fine in original light blue and yellow decorated boards, publisher's slipcase with printed paper label. More
[n.p. ca 1980]. 11 figures cut into colored paper, fine, laid into tissue paper folders and further laid into a pictorial envelope. Paper cutting is a sophisticated and long-lived artform in China. More
[Washington, D.C. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, Joint Publications Research Service, 1963]. 4to, pp. a-h, [1], 845, [1]; printed from typescript; lexicon in double column; later black cloth, gilt-stamped spine; generally fine. With the ownership signature on the first leaf of Dale Johnson / Ann Arbor, Mich..... More
n.p. ca. 1976. 26 photographs, 24 about 8" x 6", one 3" x 10.25" and one 4" x 10", all photographs of Zhou Enlai, from a young adult to his death and funeral; 21 photos part of an incomplete numbered run lacking nos. 5, 12 and 22, the others apparantly..... More
Various places: publishers as below, ca. 1900-1915. Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, mounted on heavy card stock, and paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, when viewed through a stereoscope. Such a stereoscope is included here. Many of them were published with..... More
V.p., v.d. [as below]. These were all copied and (mostly) bound in the last 25 years. The dates given below are of the original editions. These have not been collated, and the photocopies, while on the whole are perfectly legible, are very occasionally marred by blurriness and tight bindings. The..... More
Washington, D.C. Department of the Army, 1971. 4to, pp. [2], x, 253, [1]; text in double column; 17 folding charts, tables, and maps of military, political, economic, and sociological nature, including 2 large ones in rear cover pocket; original pictorial yellow wrappers, side-stapled. Text block is bulky and the binding..... More
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1959. First edition, 12mo, pp. [8], 275, [1]; a very good, sound, and clean copy in original printed yellow wrappers. "This collection of documents, speeches, news dispatches, editorials, commentaries and background materials concerning the Tibetan question is published to help readers abroad acquire a full understanding..... More
London: printed by Harrison and Sons. To be purchased either directly or through any bookseller, from any of the following Agents, viz., Messrs. Hansard ... Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode ... Messrs. Adam and Charles Black [et al.], 1885. Folio, pp. [2], 17, [1]; self-wrappers; generally fine. Contains correspondence among Marquis..... More
Toronto: The United Church of Canada, [ca. 1940]. 7.25 x 5 in., pp. 32; portrait frontispiece and illustration of Cheeloo University Chapel; yellow printed paper wrappers, fine. Also with: A bifolium programme for using the pamphlet in the use of worship services, with guidance to leadership on preparation, readings, and..... More
Paris: Librairie des arts décoratifs, n.d., [1927]. Portfolio, approx. 13½" tall, pp. [12] plus 42 plates, 6 colored; loose, as issued, in string-tied portfolio of printed brown paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; very good. Includes masks, screens, jewelry, sculptures, bookbindings, embroideries, paintings, etc. More
London & New York: Eskenazi Ltd., [2000]. First edition, folio, pp. 71, [1]l illustrated in color throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Introductory essay in English by Wang Tao with a foreword by Giuseppe Eskenazi. Catalog entries in English and Chinese. More
Peiping [i.e. Beijing]: The Peiping Chronicle, 1933. 7½" x 5", pp. [4], v, [5], 88, [2]; folding map of the city and 31 full-page illustrations from photographs; original tan pictorial wrappers, red cloth shelfback; very good copy. With numerous illustrated advertisements, a history of Chinese festivals by Dr. Y. C...... More
Peiping [i.e., Beijing]: The Peking Bookshop, 1946. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], viii, 144, [2] ads; 26 illustrations from photographs printed in blue on rectos and versos of 8 plates (numbered I-XVI); original pictorial yellow wrappers; textblock toned, vertical crease an evidence of a small sticker removal on the upper..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Yenching Institute, 1965. 8vo, pp. 307, [1]; frontispiece portrait, the occasional illustration; near fine copy in original gray printed wrappers. This copy inscribed at the top of the front wrapper: "To Ptrofessor Romeyn Taylor with the compliments of A. K'Aiming Ch'iu, 1 December 1965." With contributions by Max..... More
