London. Allen Lane. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 370pp, bibliography, notes, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Details of the event in Hong Kong organised by the Royal Asiatic Society at which this copy 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

No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa 2010). Photographic illustrations in colour, 61pp, front free endpaper and upper pastedown little rubbed, good. Text in Chinese and English. 16.1 x 24.6cm. Snapshots of life on the streets of Beijing with three wheeled bicycles highlighted. Photographs by Thomas Deighton, Murray..... More

London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Reprint. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 176pp, portions of dustjacket laid down front free endpaper, spine faded, neat date handwritten on front free endpaper. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two Gentlemen of China. When referring to..... More

London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. [Reprint]. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 175pp, carelessly opened pages have left 2 leaves torn at lower corners, binding patchily faded, gilt lettering upper cover, hardback, contents clean and sound. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two..... More

Beijing. Panda Books. 1982. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 141pp, 12mo, a good copy in paperback. These folk-tales by Jin Shoushen, an old manchu gentleman living in Beijing, were based on the tales told by generations of Beijing story-tellers. First published by the Beijing Publishing House in 1957. When..... More

Beijing: Foreign Language and Teaching Press. 2008. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 255pp, introduction in Chinese, very good paperback copy with French flaps. Peking Revisited：Introductory Chapters include: ;In a Peking Garden: How the Court Came back to Peking; Official and Rank Distinctions; Imperial Funeral; Pekingese Dogs and..... More

San Diego. Thunder Bay Press. 2007. Black and white historical images face modern colour photographic images of the same view, 144pp, index, very good copy in dustjacket. 25 x 28cm. Explore the unique city of Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. Regarded as a political, educational, and..... More

Beijing. Beijing Yanshan Publishing House. 1990. Maps, plans, profuse colour photographic illustrations, 181pp, list of museums in Beijing, a brief Beijing chronology, front free endpaper creased, chop at foot of titlepage, very good copy in slightly worn dustjacket. Text in English and Chinese. Art and architecture from Beijing from the..... More

Beijing: Foreign Language Press. 2001. First edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 223pp, editor's note, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Contents include: Houses in the City; Signs and Signboards; The Missing Couplet; Passion for Paintings. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168427. More

[Beijing]. 中国书局.[Zhongguo shu ju]. 2008. Illustrated in colour and black white with reproductions of old postcards dated from the mid 19th century Beijing, 255pp, a prior owner's signature and chop title page, spine lightly sunned, very good in paperback. Text in Chinese and English. 28 x 21.1cm. When referring to..... More