Kabul. Government Press. 1987. Black and white photographic illustrations, 47pp, 19.5 x 14.5cm. Lower free endpaper browned, barely visible staining affecting stapled wrappers and first pages, little worn and soiled, lower corner upper cover creased. Published by the government press of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, this book..... More
Shanghai. Commercial Press Limited. 1920. Revised, Sixteenth Edition. Black & white illustrations. ii, 1124pp + 1 pp advert. Rebound at some stage with the original pictorial cloth cover laid down on the front board and new endpapers. Some foxing throughout but a very good firm copy of the revised edition..... More
London. The Sunday School Union. (nd. c1904.). Fourth Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page engravings. Attractive red cloth covered pictorial boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, endpapers browned and with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1904. A handsome copy. 144pp. 18.2..... More
Shanghai. Commercial Press Limited. 1922. Seventh Edition. 173 line drawings, wood-block illustrations and photographic illustrations in black & white. xii, 186, 39 pages, In the original flexible pictorial yellow cloth. Some pencil markings on the front free endpaper, with prior owner name and dated 1925. Covers lightly soiled, corners a...... More
London. Elm Tree Books. 1985. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, 184pp, glossary, index, dustjacket, nice copy. 24.5 x 19cm. British reminiscences of life in China in the period between the two World Wars. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170936). More
Hong Kong. University Book Store. 1961. Second revised edition. viii + 191pp, bilingual indice, notes. Endpapers browned, cream cloth boards marked, edges browned but text sound and clean. "I have used a term of very wide application for the title of this book: 'Sayings' could include anything from proverbs, quotations..... More
New York. Schocken. 1985. Black and white photographic illustrations, 196pp, references, glossary, little sunning to spine of dustjacket, a good clean copy. Describes Chinese music in a simple, informative and entertaining manner, with the aid of poems, anecdotes and illustrations. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170931). More
London. Athlone. 1962. Map, black and white plate, plan, diagram, viii + 178pp, bibliography, character index, general index, hardback, dustjacket worn, spine faded, rubbed and front edge torn, a good sound secondhand copy. Inscribed by the author title page. Mrs van der Sprenkel was led to undertake this journey by..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2014. Colour photographic illustrations, black and white line illustrations, 203pp, paperback, very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170928). More
London. Review. 2003. 333pp, little light browning, light water stain lower margin last leaves, good paperback copy. Eye-witness account of the Tiananmen Square protests. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170925). More
London. Bloomsbury. 2006. 1st Edition. Pictorial endpapers, map, colour photographic and black and white line illustrations, xvi + 316pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket 23.2 x 14.8cm. In excellent, near-new condition, no signs of damage. In 1774 the head of the East India Company in Bengal determined to open trade relations..... More
New York. Morrow. 2000. Plans, black and white photographic plates and illustrations, xi + 318pp, index, 23.3 x 15.5cm. Very good copy in dustjacket. Traces the history of Shanghai from the 1840s to post revolution days. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170916). More
D. Appleton. and Company. 1932. 1st American edition. Sepia endpaper maps of the journey, black & white photographic frontispiece and numerous full-page photo montages with black & white line decorations by Willard Bonte. Original red cloth covered boards (simulated watered silk covered boards.), spine and lower front board slightly discoloured..... More
London. Horace Marshall & Son. 1897. First edition. Two maps of which one is folding, folding facsimile of Sir Stamford Raffles' handwriting, 15 full page black and white plates, xv + 403pp, index, some browning and foxing first and last leaves, the text is generally clean. Original burgundy cloth with..... More
London. John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. 1923. 1st English edition. Black and white photographic frontispiece and 40 photographic illustrations in the text. Green cloth covered boards ruled in dark blue, spine sunned, head & tail of spine tender, large inscription dated 1924 on the title page, corners bumped, endpapers..... More
Hong Kong. Government Printer. August,1961. 22 large coloured folding plans, 6 full-page black and white photographic plates and five black & white full-page design sketches 33pp. Blueprint design papered boards, rubbed at the edges and corner, spine creased with hand lettering in white, some cracking to the spine, Ministry of..... More
London. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1900. 1st Edition. Large coloured folding map of China showing Railway concessions, coalfields, iron mines, navigable waterways, &c. xii + 319pp, index. Half title and last blank lightly foxed, closed tears in folding map neatly repaired with archival tape with evidence of a previous..... More
New York. American Tract Society. c1848. 8 title-page vignettes and 8 full-page engravings. Small book containing 8 stories from the American Tract Society's issued previously and issued here as a bound collection. One issue has 12pp and the remaining seven issues contain 16pp each. Blind stamped publisher's brown cloth worn..... More
A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911c. 1st American edition. Black & white frontispiece and 31 illustrations from photographs. xx + 298pp. Striking original black cloth covered boards with a decorative motif of a paifang - a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure stamped in red and gilt..... More
New York. MacMillan and Company. 1894. 1st Edition. 12 full page colour plates with tissue-guards, prior owner bookplate on the front free endpaper, endpapers browned, prior owner inscription dated 1921, and another on the rear of the frontispiece, blue cloth covered boards, rubbed at the corner and edges, head and..... More
London. The Religious Tract Society. c1880s. London Missionary Society Edition. Black and white frontispiece with a total of 50 engraved illustrations throughout. Green cloth covered boards stamped in black - 'A Presentation Copy London Missionary Society' with gilt background and raised lettering on the upper right hand corner, gilt lettered..... More
New York. Simon & Schuster. 2010. Reprint. Map, black and white photographic illustrations. xii + 304pp, index, bibliography, notes. 23.2 x 16cm. Very good in dustjacket. Hilary Spurling recounts the events of Pearl Buck's life, with particular attention given to her writing of her best-selling novel 'The Good Earth', first..... More
New Beach, Maine. Samuel Weiser. 1998. Reprint. Black and white photographic plates, 311pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. Very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170910). More
Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治四十三1910. Bilingual (French and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Minister of State for Communications of Empire of Japan, S. Gotō, and the Communication Minister of the United Mexican States, Leandro Fernandez. 26 + 14pp, an errata tipped in upper pastedown, in wrappers..... More
Ann Arbor. Association of Teachers of Japanese. 1991. Black and white illustrations, 162pp, light foxing upper edge, a good paperback copy. The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. Volume 25, Number 1 April 1991. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 156874). More
