New Haven . Yale University Press. 1994. Reprint. Maps, black and white illustrations, 448pp, notes, bibliography, index, minor creasing on covers, overall very good in paperback. First published in 1987 by Penguin Books. This is a 1994 impression by Yale Unversity Press. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More

Enomoto Shoten].* 榎本書店, Taisho 6 [1917]. Colour woodblock printed children's book in original pictorial wrappers, [7]pp, 14.2 x 20.8cm. Very good copy. This charming little picture book introduced Japanese children to a very wide variety of forms of transport including airships, planes, battle ships, trams, cars etc. Interesting example of..... More

北京. [Beijing]. 商务印書館.[Shang wu yin shu guan]. 1955. Reprint of revised and enlarged edition. 23 tables of food ingredients, 123pp, appendices, original paper covered boards browned and worn at corners and edges, some light even browning text, endpapers browned in places, overall a good hardback cpy. Text in Chinese. 26.5..... More

Peking. Foreign Language Press. 1983. Second printing. Volume 1: black and white illustrations, 247pp, good hardback copy in dustjacket with a little rubbing on extremities. Volume 2: black and white illustrations, 496pp, good hardback copy in dustjacket with a little rubbing on extremities, small amount of foxing on endpapers and..... More

New York. Hill and Wang. 1988. Black and white photographic and other illustrations, 491pppp, appendices, list of further reading, dustjacket a very good hardback copy. "Seeds of Fire provides a critical selection of the original works of controversial writers and artists whose ideas inspired the events of 1989. It is..... More

Oxford. Phaidon. 1983. Reprint. Colour and black and white illustrations, maps and plans, 237pp, music, bibliography, gazetteer, index. Endpapers and dustjacket foxed, some tears on dustjacket now in protective covers, overall good in hardback. 31 x 24cm. "China is the world's oldest living civilization, in terms of a continuity of..... More

London. Aldus Books. 1977. Many colour illustrations, 144pp, light wear and foxing dustjacket, small quarto, good copy. Traces the cultural heritage of the crafts of China, including lacquerware, ceramics and basketwork, and explains the symbols and folktales that are such an important part of the craft vocabulary in China. Also..... More

Taipei. Southern Materials Center, Inc., 1988. Third printing. Black and white maps, black and white as well as coloured line and photographic illustrations, xv + 424pp, bibliography, foxing just starting on endpapers and reverse of dustjacket, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 19.5 x 27.5 cm. "Here, in one volume..... More

London. Pimlico. 2007. Maps, black and white illustrations, 16 pages of plates, xxvii + 304pp, trifle tears and rubbing dustjacket, otherwise very good hardback copy. 24 x 16cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 164279). More

上海.[Shanghai]. 上海人民出版社.[Shanghai ren min chu ban she]. 1976. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 86 black and white illustrations accompanied by Chinese text lower section of each page, three pin-holes along spine with minor chipping on fore-edge, light ink stain lower cover to spine, very good internally, in wrappers. Text in Chinese..... More

Calcutta. Indian Museum. 1985. Colour and black and white plates, 36pp + 26 plates, bibliography, glossary, hardback, dustjacket laid down endpapers, chipped with loss, 25 x 18.5cm, (When referring to this item please quote stockid 165350). More

隆都沙溪僑刊社.[Longdu Shaxi qiao kan she]. 1984. Issue no. 2 of a Chinese periodical reporting on the development of Shaxi (an ancestral hometown for many overseas Chinese. Map, black and white illustrations, 47pp. Light damp stain upper cover, small closed tear lower cover, very good. Text in Chinese. 25.8 x 19cm..... More

United Kingdom. Penguin Books. 2007. 464pp, paperback. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai with a foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the..... More