Canberra. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, 1982. Black and white map, 30pp, notes on pronunciation, some pages carelessly cut, paperback in good condition with slight sunning on spine and insignificant marks on the cover, a few leaves carelessly trimmed. 15 x 21cm. Good copy. A Guide to Peking published..... More

Hong Kong. Oxford University. 1982. Reprint. 7 folding maps & plans (one in colour), 29 black and white photographic plates, xvi + 571pp, appendices, index, hardback, dustjacket, 22 x 15cm, very light browning edges, a good copy. First published in 1919. Bredon spent most of her life in Peking was..... More

Shanghai. Kelly & Walsh. 1922. Second edition revised and enlarged. 6 folding maps & plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 523pp, appendices, index, delightfully bound in bright orange silk covered boards, final folding map trifle browned on margins with some separation at folds in one or two places..... More

Belmont. Thomson. 2002. Second Edition. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 200, index, bibliography, glossary, prior owner's name partially blocked out with black marker on foredge. rubbed on extremities, slight creasing upper cover, a good secondhand copy. Contents include: The Meeting; Half Moon Village; Growing Up; Family Relations..... More

Berkeley. University of Cairo. 2003. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxiii + 380pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket spine a little sunned, good hardback copy. "Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in China's capital since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every..... More

New York. Doran. 1921). Maps & tables, illustrations, xxiii + 538pp, index, endpapers foxed, neat inscription front free endpaper. Dark green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine faded, head 7 tail of spine and extremities a little rubbed and worn, inner hinges split, text sound and clean. 22 x...... More

Peking. Head Office of China Intourist. 1956. Large coloured foldout pictorial map showing the sites of Peking, colour and black and white illustrations, 32pp, some ink and pencilled comments and marking, original pictorial wrappers rubbed and worn, signature and chop of a prior owner upper wrapper. Complete. This copy was..... More

London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. [Reprint]. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 175pp, neat signature and date of a prior owner slightly creased front free endpaper, binding patchily faded, upper cover a little marked. Good copy. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two..... More

London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Reprint. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 176pp, good copy in original cloth. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two Gentlemen of China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140164). More

Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1956. Maps, black and white photographic illustations, 122pp, index, chop at foot of titlepage, endpapers heavily browned. Neat archival tape repair along spine and upper hinge, some small staple holes in upper covers, card covers in slightly soiled dustjacket. Contents very good and clean. Discusses the..... More

Peking. Art Photo Press. 1957. Photo book of Peking with very attractive colour endpapers showing a plan of Peking, black and white photographic plates throughout, unpaginated, chop lower corner title page, dustjacket a little browned with a few tears, very good copy. Text in Chinese, Russian, English, French, German and..... More

London. Robert Hale Limited. 1958. Black and white photographic plates, 190pp, appendix, glossary, index, dustjacket worn along extremities, a good hardback copy. Eye-witness account of life in Peking in the period 1950 - 1953 where the author lived while accompanying her British foreign service husband. Peter Lum brings to the..... More

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1979. ix + 129pp, very good hardback in worn dustjacket. Biography. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151619). More