London. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1899. 1st Edition. 2 large folding maps and a folding table - a comparison of imports of cotton goods and yarns into all China, 1887 and 1897. xviii + 509pp, appendix, index. 2 pages of adverts. Navy blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt, an..... More
London. J.M. Dent. 1975. Adapted from the English translation of Hari Prasad Shastri. xix + 244pp, 24 x 16.5cm. Boards lightly faded along upper edge, dustjacket worn with little loss, otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171803). More
United States: Tuttle Publishing, 2020. 40 watercolor illustrations, hardback. Age range 5 to 9 Set in tropical rainforests, on balmy beaches, and in the remote highlands of the Indonesian islands, this multicultural children's book offers a taste of how universal values of bravery, cleverness, true love, kindness and loyalty are..... More
New Delhi. Rupa & Co., 2007. Reprint. Fold out map in rear, iv + 375pp, 22 x 15cm. Some staining on upper edge, dustjacket lightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171801). More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 2003. 3rd revised edition. xvii + 386pp, index, 24.5 x 19cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171800). More
Australia: Hale & Iremonger,Pty.Ltd, 1992. Black and white illustrations, 388pp, appendices, bibliography, index, a good paperback copy with slight rubbing on extremities. "Australia was divided about Charles Sousens. Was he a traitor who collaborated with the Japanese, broadcasting and writing treasonable scripts for Radio Tokyo, or was he, as he..... More
New York. McGraw-Hill. 1984. Reprint. Black and white illustrations, map, xviii + 595pp, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, dustjacket extremities rubbed and spine lightly sunned, good hardback copy. "Richard Sorge was possibly the most successful spy to have lived. Born in Russia and educated in Germany, Sorge posed as a Nazi..... More
Rangoon. Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma. 1961. The Talaing Plaques on the Ananda Text. Volume two, part one only. xv + 209pp, appendices, 28 x 21.5cm. Browning to first and last leaves, paper cover worn with loss and few closed tears, a fair copy. Archaeological Survey of Burma. (When referring to..... More
Tokyo: LTCB International Library Foundation. 2015. 231pp, index, notes, very good hardbck copy with dustjacket. "Japan's relations with its closes neighbours, China and Korea, are tense - exacerbated by disputes over territorial issues and the unresolved trauma of a tumultuous twentieth-century history. In this book, the author, a veteran Japanese..... More
London. Routledge. 2003. [Reprint]. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xxxvi + 532pp, index, bibliography, appendices, tables, a little rubbing on extremities, good paperback copy. "This comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations, The book offers a clear and concise introduction..... More
Rangoon. Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma. 1972. Reprint. Volume one, part one only. Black and white illustrations, v + 68pp, 27.5 x 21.7cm. Browning to paper covers and first and last leaves, in fair condition. Archaeological Survey of Burma. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171791). More
Clayton. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies. Monash University. 1983. 45pp, notes, bibliography, 29.6 x 21cm. A very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171790). More
New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (c.1975). Maps, black and white illustrations, xxiii + 500pp, index, front free pastedown slight mark, covers a touch worn, otherwise good hardback copy. "Long recognized as a core book in any study of Japanese culture and literature, The Nobility of Failure examines the lives..... More
New Delhi. Aleph. 2016. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, xxvi + 333pp, notes, bibliography, index, 22.1 x 15cm. Light wear to dustjacket, otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171787). More
Australia. Random House Australia. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxviii + 548pp, index, bibliography, notes and references, very good hardback copy with dustjacket. How Australia and her allies defeated the Japanese. Pearl Harbor; The Fall of Singapore; Curtin's Fight With Churchill; The Bombing Of Darwin; POW Camps; The..... More
New York. Viking. 1980. Prolific colour illustrations, 217pp, index, 25 x 20cm. Slight indentations to rear cover and dustjacket, otherwise a very good copy. "Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Metcalfe, was born at Meerut in the North West Provinces, India, in 1830. Her earliest recollections..... More
(Vietnam). Son Ta. Circa (2002). Text in Vietnamese and English. Prolific colour illustrations, 37pp, timeline, 25.7 x 19cm. Light sunning to spine, otherwise a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171781). More
USA. University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2004. xvii + 328pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket extremities a little rubbed and spine faded, corners lightly bumped, sticker front paste-down, inscription by author, good hardback copy. "Reasonable Men, Powerful Words "traces the development of political culture in twentieth-century Japan through a...... More
Germany. Nippon Shuppan. 1983. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 153pp, publisher's stamp front-free endpaper, dustjacket spine faded and extremities a little rubbed, good paperback copy. "Historical Nagasaki tells the history of the city, the way it grew and the human encounters which took place there. Nagasaki is..... More
United Kingdom. Simon & Schuster Ltd., 2000. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 262pp, extremities rubbed, good paperback copy. Roy Whitecross served as a Private in the 8th Division AIF from 1941 to 1945. He was incarcerated as a Japanese POW during World War II, he worked on..... More
London. Harrap. 1988. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 493, index, bibliography, notes, signature front free endpaper, price clipped dustjacket upper section of spine a little shelf-worn, good hardback copy. "December 7, 1941 is the culmination of Gordon Prange's monumental Pearl Harbor trilogy, which has been hailed as..... More
Chiang Mai. Silkworm Books. 2009. Fold out colour plates, vii + 79pp, bibliography, index, 23 x 15cm. Small sticker mark on rear paperback cover, otherwise a very good copy. "Murder and Mayhem in Seventeenth-Century Cambodia tells the fascinating story of the origins, course, and consequences of the conflict in the..... More
Bangkok. Thai Watana Panich. 1986. 5th edition. Preface in Thai, with English translation on reverse. 12 colour plates, 73pp, 26 x 18.5cm. Little foxing to upper edge, spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171762). More
United States. University of Hawai'i Press. 2014. 18 maps, 29 colour illustrations, 9 black & white illustrations, xxv + 229pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century..... More
St Lucia, Queensland. University of Queensland Press. 1983. Paperback edition. Maps, x + 379pp, glossary, bibliography, index, 21.5 x 14.2cm. Few leaves lightly pencilled, little wear and fading to paperback covers, otherwise a very good copy. Histories of Southeast Asia Series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171760)..... More
