Meeting with the XIV Dalai Lama. Environment and Different Cultures with the same Objective of Peace.
Rome: Palazzo Giustiniani. 1993. 23pp, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 159557. More
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Memoranda. Angkatan Sasterawan '50 dengan lampiran rumusan Kongres Bahasa dan Persuratan Melayu Ketiga.
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1962. xiii + 281pp, paperback. Covers shelfworn, ink annotations a few leaves, ink signature of previous owner title. Good copy from the library of Professor C. Skinner. Malay language conference publication. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 150673). More
A Survey of Tibet.
Lhasa. Tibet People's Publishing House. 1987. Colour illustrations, 196pp, text in Tibetan and English, bookplate tipped in paste down endpaper, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156694. More
Ueda's Daijiten. A Japanese Dictionary of Chinese Characters and Compounds.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1942. American Edition. Profuse hanzi/kanji diagrams, over 1,500 pages, 23.5 x 16cm, 3.15kg. Dull cloth binding little rubbed, stamp of department library one endpaper, edges and few leaves marked, nonetheless a good sound copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 67002... More
オックスフォードピクチャーディクショナリー. [Okkusufōdo pikuchā dikushonarī]. The Oxford Picture Dictionary. English/Japanese.
New York. Oxford University Press, No date. (circa2010). Reprint. xi + 227pp, paperback, corners and edges a little bumped and worn but overall very good. 28 x 21.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 164540. More
古文字學初階 [Gǔ wén zì xué chū jiē Rudimentary Paleography].
中華書局 Zhonghua shu ju. 87pp, line illustrations, paperback, trifle faded on spine, 文史知識叢書 wen shi zhi shi cong chu series. Chinese paleography with a focus on oracle bone/tortoise inscriptions, copper inscriptions, etc. Text in Chinese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 150367. More
容易用混的詞 [Róng yì yòng hún de cí. Words that are easily muddled up].
北京出版社 Beijing chu ban she. 1980. 148pp, paperback little faded along upper edge, good copy. Text in Chinese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 150366. More
文字 [Wén zì Chinese Characters].
Beijing: 北京語言學院 Beijing Language University. 1983. 228pp, paperback, some pencilled annotations, corners bumped, small closed tear upper wrapper, endpapers sellotape stained. A Chinese textbook with English vocabulary lists. When referring to this item please quote stockid 150370. More
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1996. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 304pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Remainder mark upper edge, paperback covers trifle marked, otherwise a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174019. More
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薩迦寺. [Sajia si]. [Sakya Monastery].
北京. [Beijing]. 文物出版社.[Wen wu chu ban she]. 1985. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Map of the Sakya Monastery, 109 coloured plates with captions in Chinese and Tibetan, upper cover showing one of the halls in the Sakya Monastery, generally very good with light rubbings on covers, paperback. Text in Tibetan and..... More
Sejarah Kesusasteraan Melayu Vols I, II and III.
Kuala Lumpur. Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. 1957. [Reprint]. 3 volumes. Volume:. I: iv + 89pp. Stiff boards. Volume:. II: 74pp. Paperback. Small hole half title. Volume:. III: 77pp. Paperback. All in dustjackets, volume I dustjacket chipped with a little loss. All a little shelfworn but generally good..... More
Sastera Melayu Baru.
Malaysia. Saudara Sinaran Berhad. 1964. Black and white photographic illustration, iii + 172pp, bibliography, author's inscription front free endpaper, signature on title page, good paperback copy with fading at spine and edges. From the library of Professor C. Skinner. Text in Malay. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Imbohan Sastera.
Singapore. Pustaka Melayu. 1963. 184pp, from the library of Professor Skinner whose name is written in red ink on front free endpaper, very good in little worn paperback. Text in Malay. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154447). More
Raja Gagak.
Kuala Lumpur. Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka. 1963. One black and white photographic illustration, ix + 57pp, lower corner little bumped, otherwise still a good copy in little worn paperback, from the library of Professor Skinner whose name is inscribed on front free endpaper, 12mo. Text in Malay. (When referring to..... More
Perintis Bahasa.
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1963. xviii + 201pp, covers patchily browned and marked, upper corner cover and first few pages little creased, otherwise a good paperback copy. Malay textbook for schools. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 69679). More
Indonesian Language and Literature. Two Essays.
New Haven: Yale University Press. 1962. 40pp, library stamp copyright page, original wrappers some wear, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161403). More
Pembina Bahasa Indonesia. Madjalah Bulanan untuk Memadjukan Bahasa Indonesia.
Jakarta. Pustaka Rakjat. Vol. 1, no. 2 1948- vol. 5, no. 7, 1953. Broken run of 41 issues, including: vol. 1, no. 2 - no. 12 (1948/49); vol. 2, no. 1 - no. 4, no. 7 - no. 9, no. 11 - no. 12 (1949/50); vol. 3, no. 1 -..... More
Bahana Rasa.
Brunei Darussalam. Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka. 1979. xvii + 202pp, stamp title page, paperback with minor fading. Text in Malay. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 61828). More
In Exile from the Land of Shadows.
London. Joseph. 1984. Endpaper maps, 383pp, index, foxed edges and endpapers, dustjacket little worn, a good hardback copy toherwise. This book is the product of four years travelling through the Tibetan communities of India. When referring to this item please quote stockid 161252. More
Three Tibetan Mysteries. Tchrimekundan, Nansal, Djroazanmo. As performed in the Tibetan Monasteries.
Taipei. SMC Publishing. (circa 2004). [Reprint]. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for..... More
Hindi Semantics
Allahabad. Bharati Press. 1959. xx + 536pp, indices, bibliographies, appendix, prior owner's stamp front free endpaper, dustjacket torn in places and with loss on spine, otherwise a sound copy. Thesis submitted and approved by the Allabahad University for the degree of Doctor of Letters. Covers sound and meaning, evolution of..... More
Sang Boma.
Djakarta. Balai Pustaka. 1953. [Reprint]. 327pp, paperback. Spine amateurly repaired with sellotape, small chip with loss lower cover, light pencilling some leaves. Sound copy from the library of Professor C. Skinner. Indonesian language literature. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 69474). More
The Mummies of Urumchi.
New York. Norton. (c. 1999). Maps, including colour map lower dustjacket cover, black and white illustrations, frontispiece, 16 colour photographic plates, 240pp, notes, bibliography, index, front free endpaper little marked, very good hardback copy. 24 x 18cm. "In the museums of Urumchi, the wind-swept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous..... More
Resistance and Reform in Tibet.
United Kingdom: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 1994. 20 illustrations, maps, 314pp, appendix, index, small split head of spine, otherwise a good paperback copy. Much writing about Tibet and especially on Tibetan responses to Chinese communist rule has been sentimental and highly polemical. Also, many publications on recent development..... More
Perintis Sastera.
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1965. New Edition. 477pp, corners little worn. From the library of Professor C. Skinner with his annotations in pencil (mainly) and occasionally in ink throughout. Text in Malay. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170952). More