No place of publication. No details of publisher. Circa [ 1935]. Colour folded map, inset chart, minor wear, light even browning, good copy. 37 x 27cm. Map showing the railway network in Manchuria and surrounding areas. Also shows the locations of minerals and agricultural activities. The main focus of the..... More

Boston. Little, Brown & Company. 1918. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 illustrations throughout. xi + 271pp. Light foxing to preliminary leaves and tissue guard. Knowledgable pencilled notes on a last blank. Original cloth covered boards decorated in aqua and lettered in gilt. Spine a trifle faded..... More

London. Murray. 1926. 5th Edition. iv + 766pp, index, title page evenly browned, lower corners of two leaves torn with loss, not affecting the text, two small holes in cloth upper joint, small scratch spine, inscription front free endpaper, edges lightly foxed. A good clean and sound copy. Encyclopaedia-style entries..... More

London. The China Inland Mission/The Religious Tract Society, 1926. A coloured foldout with 2 maps showing the stations of the C.M.S. and B.C.M.S. West China Diocese together with a Sketch map of China showing position of the Province of Szechwan. Frontispiece photographic portrait, and 18 plates, including portraits and a...... More

London. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1924. Second Edition. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 23 photographic plates throughout the text. Bright yellow cloth covered boards, stamped with a Chinese Snake Catcher device on front board, slight sunning to the spine, some spotting to fore-edge, and endpapers, but a very..... More

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1919. vii + 380pp, appendices, index, 19.7 x 13.6cm. Some pages little soiled and browned, dustjacket worn with head of spine chipped with little loss, protected by a previous owner, otherwise a good copy. Histories of the Nations series. "This book is an attempt to deal with..... More

Portland, OR. China Society. No date. (Circa 1937). 19pp, bound in a library binding with a cloth tape spine lettered in white ink and paper covered boards, library title label upper cover, Withdrawn stamped lower section of front free endpaper, lower paste down damaged where library pocket has been removed..... More

[天津].[Tianjin]. 富華印刷局.[Fu hua yin shua ju]. (circa 1930). Attractive Chinese Minguo poster in colour, laid down on paper backing, featuring four beautifully dressed fairies on the right, one Chinese immortal floating on a piece of cloud and another immortal [?] standing in the front. Loss upper left corner not affect..... More

United States. George H. Doran Company. [ 1919]. 1st edition. Black & white frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations. Original orange covered boards decorated and lettered in dark gray. Spine faded cloth lightly marked , offsetting to endpapers, yet a firm and pleasing binding. Published by the Missionary Education Movement. The..... More

Paris. Ernest Leroux. 1932. 414pp, original wrappers a little browned in places, spine darkened and varnished (?). Wrappers showing a little light wear and a few occasional chips but generally a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 118085. More

New York. Chinese Studies Press. 1937. 1st Edition. Numerous pen & ink drawings by Arthur G. Learned. 143pp. Original yellow cloth covered boards lettered in black. Hand lettered author name on the spine. The author offers glimpses of China's secret soul as he recounts some of her alluring legends and..... More

Shanghai. Commercial Press Limited. 1936. iv + 281pp, original blue cloth worn with minor loss at corners and head and tail of spine. 22 x 14cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165738. More

London. Cambridge. 1933. Maps, illustrations, xv + 252pp, appendices, index, neat signature upper edge of title page, 2 obituaries and a review of C.P. Fitzgerald's book on The Empress Wu are taped to the front endpapers. Cellotape considerably browned. few tiny tears cloth head and tail of spine otherwise a...... More