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
Rome: Palazzo Giustiniani. 1993. 23pp, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159557). More
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
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
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
Beijing: 北京語言å¸é™¢ 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
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
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
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
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
New Delhi. American Institute of Indian Studies. 1976. 2 volumes: Advanced Hindi Reader by AIDS Staff. Hindi Language Program. 81pp. Workbook for Advance Hindi Students by Santwana Nigam. 77pp. Both in original card covers showing some minor wear, upper corners bumped. Good secondhand copies. 24.6 x 18.5cm. (When referring to..... More
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
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
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
Jakarta. Pustaka Rakjat. Vol. 1, no. 21948- 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 - no..... More
United Kingdom. Little, Brown & Company. 1999. Endpaper maps, colour illustrations, 305pp, glossary, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word "Shangri-La"..... More
Rutland, Vermont. Charles E. Tuttle. 1990. 21st printing, 1st edition. xiii + 105pp, 21.2 x 15cm. Sticker remnants on, and light wear to paperback covers, otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171758). More
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
Yogyakarta. Gadjah Mada U.P., 1990. Third printing. 205pp, paperback, name and notes front endpaper, good copy. Chapters include: The Significance of the New Name Indonesian; The Japanese Occupation; The National Language and the Revolution; The Treatment of Language Problems; The Cultivattion of Indonesian; Problems of Language Use. (When referring to..... More
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
Taipei. SMC Publishing. (circa2004). [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 each..... More
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
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
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 Region..... More
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
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