Edinburgh. NMS Publishing. 2001. Black and white photographic illustrations, 104pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Ex-library copy with withdrawn stamp and sections of labels on title page, covers a little worn. Sound and otherwise clean. Scots' Lives series. Biography of the tutor to the young Puyi and the only foreigner working in..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1979. Second Edition. 2 volumes, translated, black and white photographic illustrations. Volume 1: 247pp, Qing House genealogical table. Volume 2: 253-496pp, index. Some light browning, good set in worn dustjackets. Pu Yi was the last Chinese Emperor. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177011..... More
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Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1979. Second Edition. Two volumes. Volume One: 247pp; boards trifle bumped at corners. Volume Two: 253-496pp, index. Both volumes: Black & white photographic plates; upper edges little marked, dustjackets slightly worn, a good set; 21 x 15cm. From the library of Professor Anthony Reid, with his..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1979. Second Edition. Two volumes. Volume One: 247pp. Volume Two: 253-496pp, index; dustjacket spine somewhat sunned. Both volumes: Black & white photographic plates; dustjackets somewhat worn and marked, a very good set; 21 x 15cm. Aisin-Gioro Puyi's seminal autobiography, penned following his rehabilitation as a loyal..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1983. Reprint, Second Edition. Two volumes. Volume One: 247pp. Volume Two: 253-496pp, index. Both volumes: Black & white photographic plates; red ribbon bookmarks; edges slightly foxed, dustjackets little worn at extremities, otherwise a very good set; 21 x 15cm. Aisin-Gioro Puyi's seminal autobiography, penned following his..... More
United Kingdom. Fourth Estate. 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, vii + 278pp, dustjacket. Very good copy. 'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration..... More
New York. Reynal & Hitchcock. 1936. 302pp,foxing endpapers, a prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket chipped with loss and repaired on reverse with paper, good hardback copy. Biography of Pearl Buck's missionary father and his life in China. "Companion volume to 'The Exile', a biography of the author's mother..... More
New York. John Day. 1954. 407pp, prior owner's details front paste down, minor wear binding, small stain lower edge. Good secondhand copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165930. More
New York. Random House. 1992. Endpaper and in-text maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 366pp, notes, index, dustjacket spine trifle sunned, edges lightly foxed, a very good hardback copy. A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of..... More
London. Hutchinson. 1990. Translated byJeffery C. Kinkley. Black and white photographic plates, 276pp, index, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. "Biography of well known journalist, novelist and translator. Of Mongolian origin, he was born in a Peking slum in 1910, orphaned by the time he was 10, started work in..... More
London. Thames & Hudson. 1984. Black and white photographic plates, 246pp, bibliography, decorative endpapers, hardback, quarto, dustjacket little marked, very good copy. "This volume, published on the occasion of Sir Harold Acton's eightieth birthday, includes contributions on a variety of subjects, some relating directly to Sir Harold's life and writings..... More
New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. First Printing. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xl + 666 pages, index, chronology, dustjacket neatly repaired in a few places on reverse and dustjacket a little creased at head of spine, a little rubbing on extremities, a good copy. The publication of Wild..... More
London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. Cloth covered boards, viii+414pp and 2 pages adverts, marked and worn especially on the spine, endpapers browned, text block edges toned, still a good firm copy of the first edition. 23x15cm. Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh Review' includes "Cornwallis and the Indian Services" and..... More
London. Harrap. 1988. Endpaper maps, illustrations, 528pp, index, very good copy in protected dustjacket taped to pastedown. Frank Ching traces his family back 34 generations to the poet Qin Guan, the founder of the Ching clan and the common forebear of both the father and mother of the author -..... More
London. Pandora. 1989. xii + 265pp, bibliography. Remainder mark along upper edge, otherwise in excellent condition. Short biographies of six European women in China - the women are Mrs Archibald Little, Sarah Pike Conger, Grace Seton Thompson, Alice Tisdale Hobart, Nora Waln and Pearl S. Buck. When referring to this..... More
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北京.[Beijing]. 生活・讀書・新知三联书店.[Sheng huo, du shu, xin zhi san lian shu dian]. 1984. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 370pp, paperback covers lightly soiled and faded, still a good sound copy. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173855... More
United States. Simon & Schuster. 1999. Map, black and white illustrations, viii + 280pp, sources, note, indices, glossary, paperback copy in good condition. "'China Through the Sliding Door' offers a different insight into this most complex and unpredictable society. Understanding its recent history, John Gittings sheds light on its present..... More
London. Cape. 1954. Reprint. Map, ix + 7-287pp, price-clipped dustjacket a little browned, cloth boards foxed, edges browned, good hardback copy. Autobiographical account of China in the 1930s. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172839. More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1988. 272pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Some foxing to outer edge, fading to dustjacket spine and upper edge, otherwise in very good condition. Li Yu, 1610 - 1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work -..... More
Australia. Melbourne University Press. 1990. 12 black and white plates, xiv + 181pp, index, small mark on fore edge, spine little faded, a good paperback copy. A teacher from the scholar-gentry families of old Peking, Wang Hsin-ping was investigated during the Cultural Revolution as a "counter-revolutionary". Onlookers of China's recent..... More
Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1990. 12 black and white plates, xiv + 181pp, index, spine little faded, a very good paperback copy. A teacher from the scholar-gentry families of old Peking, Wang Hsin-ping was investigated during the Cultural Revolution as a "counter-revolutionary". Onlookers of China's recent political crisis will note..... More
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臺北.[Taipei]. 正中書局.[Zheng zhong shu ju]. 民國 46 [ 1957]. 617+ 2pp, errata, some foxing particularly at first and last leaves and on covers, lightly browned throughout, a sound copy in original wrappers. Text in traditional Chinese. Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), military leader in Qing Court, was in charge of suppressing Taiping..... More
Hong Kong. FormAsia. 2006. Black and white photographic illustrations, 111pp, very good hardback in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166044. More
London. Paul Hamlyn. 1969. Black and white photographic illustrations, v + 192pp, appendices, index, a prior owner's details obscured by black ink front free endpaper, occasional foxing, opening between gatherings in one place, author's name neatly inked on spine, hardback in dustjacket. Account of the author's experiences and observations of..... More
London. The Cresset Press. 1957. Translated from the Swedish by Naomi Walford. Map, black and white plates, xii + 216pp, worn and insect damaged cloth binding, boards lifting slightly, lettered spine dulled, pale foxing edges and endpapers, blurbs from dustjacket loosely inserted, contents sound. Author's account of his experiences buying..... More