London. The Travel Book Club. 1972. 239pp, bibliography, glossary. Prior owner's name front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. This book is a story of the adventures of Elizabeth Balneaves and her second son Stewart Johnston in the northern frontiers of Pakistan, and the people in whose footsteps..... More
London. Macmillan. 1985. Tables and figures, xvi + 237pp, index, remainder mark on lower cover, extremities a little browned, covers a little worn, mark on lower cover, good paperback copy. "Young Chinese couples have been asked by the Chinese government to have no more than one child. The single-child family..... More
London. University of London. 1977. Black and white illustrations, 22pp, ex-library copy in stapled wrappers, covers a little worn, internally sound and clean. 21 x 15cm. From an inaugural lecture delivered on the 19th of March, 1997, by Elisabeth Croll at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London..... More
Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. First Edition. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 287pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, very good dustjacket and hardcover copy. "In 1998, Indonesia exploded with both euphoria and violence after the fall of its longtime authoritarian ruler, Soeharto, and his New Order regime. Hope centered..... More
Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 2004. Map, xiii + 337pp, notes, index, lower corner bumped, stamp upper edge, upper French flap of dustjacket creased, otherwise a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166912. More
Honolulu. Institute of Pacific Relations. January and June 1931. 2 issues. Vol. IV, No. 1 (January 1931): ii + 94pp. Vol IV, No. 6: ii + 471-563pp. Ex-library copies, both stamped with "Graduate School of Business", original wrappers little worn at extremities with spines chipped at head and tail, overall..... More
Honolulu. Institute of Pacific Relations. April, October & December 1931. 3 issues. Vol. IV, No. 4 (March): ii + 283-376pp; No. 10 (October): ii + 863-956pp; No. 12 (December): ii + 1051-1144pp. Ex-library copies, all three journals stamped with "Graduate School of Business", original wrappers little worn at extremities, an..... More
Indonesia. Pajangan RT 03. 2011. First Edition in English. 357pp, book ribbon, very good hardback copy. "1814. Central Java. In the palace of Surakarta, Prince Anom Hamengkunagara III is suffocating under colonial oppression and the fossilized rituals of the court. He challenged his father, the sultan, who had scolded him..... More
Hong Kong. Orientations Magazine Ltd., 2006. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 101pp. 28.5 x 21cm. A very good paperback copy. From the library of Aubrey and Eva Sweet with a label indicating the collection number on the spine. Includes articles on Gustav Jacoby's Japanese art collection, paintings, lacquers..... More
Hong Kong. Orientations Magazine Ltd., 2009. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 99pp. 28.5 x 21cm. A very good paperback copy. From the library of Aubrey and Eva Sweet with a label indicating the collection number on the spine. Includes articles on the Nezu Museum (Japan), National Palace Museum..... More
London. Foulis. 1920. 1st thus. Tipped-in coloured frontispiece illustration by Norman H, Harvey and black & white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated papered boards, lacks the lower half of the back strip and with discolouration of tape residue to the spine. Prior owner name on the the front free endpaper dated..... More
London. Davies. 1926. 12 black and white photographic plates, 126pp, hardback, lacks frontispiece, neat name front free endpaper, pictorial upper cover, corners bumped, covers little soiled, little foxed throughout, still very sound. Letters written by Kwei-li 25 years after those written to her husband (in Love Letters of a Chinese..... More
New York. Columbia University Press. (c. 2021). Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 364pp, notes, bibliography, index. Upper cover corner trifle bumped, excellent paperback copy. This book considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the..... More
United States: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2012. 489pp, index, paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 141595. More
Chicago. John C. Winston. 1938. Illustrations by Virginia Hollinger Stout, calligraphy by Chen Chao-ming, 267pp, glossary. Name of prior owner crossed out on front endpaper, endpapers a little darkened, dustjacket considerably worn with a little loss with neat paper repairs on the reverse. A good copy. A very attractive volume..... More
Westport. Greenwood Press. 1994. 1st Edition. Black & white portrait frontispiece and 6 photographic illustrations. x + 163pp index and bibliography and 1 page of publisher's adverts. 23 x 15cm. Original glazed boards as published. Very good. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 – 1973) also known by her Chinese name Sai..... More
Oxford. RoutledgeCurzon. 2005. xii + 264pp, appendix. glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Edges of hardback lower cover trifle bumped, some corners creased, tiny mark one page, still a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 216465. More
New York. Cornell University Press. 2005. Maps, black and white illustrations, 220pp, glossary, bibliography, very good paperback copy with sunned spine. Southeast Asia Program Series No. 21. When referring to this item please quote stockid 212853. More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1983. Reprint. Maps, xiii + 324pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, edges little foxed, covers slightly shelf worn with sunned spine, a good paperback copy. This work examines three notable rebel movements in one area in China, Huaipei, a region of poor soil and unstable weather bounded..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1993. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 327pp, appendices, notes, index, covers little marked and spine faded, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with the usual labels and stamps on endpapers, text clean, a sound secondhand copy. "A remarkably comprehensive and nuanced picture of Chinese labor emerges..... More
Armonk. M E Sharpe. 1980. viii + 139pp, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 139264. More
New York. W. W. Norton & Company. 2014. Map, 404pp, glossary, resources and further reading, index. As new hardback in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 222384. More
New York. W. W. Norton & Company. 2014. Map, 404pp, glossary, resources and further reading, index. Top edge lightly browned, a very good hardback in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223959. More
London. G.Nicol. April 12, 1796. Copper-plate engraving 30.2 x 47 cms, 36.5 x 49.8 cms (sheet including caption) scattered foxing (affecting the sky of the image only), sheet trimmed, but a very good dark impression. Elegant engraving after the work of William Alexander published in George Staunton's official account of..... More
London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1943. Reprint. Endpaper maps, numerous striking black and white line drawings by Bernard Watkins, xvii + 386pp, index. Red cloth covered boards, lettered and stamped in black, spine slightly faded and frayed at the head, endpapers slightly browned, rough cut fore-edge as published Small prior..... More