East Asia
Cambridge:The Technology Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1959. 284pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some moderate wear to the edges with several chips and small tears. Covers are lightly soiled and spine shows some sun-fading. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
406pp. With dust jacket. A very good copy; dust jacket shows marginal wear.
$18.50
Berlin: Verlag von Karl Curtius. (1912). 380 pp +3 folded maps at rear. Wraps. Wraps are worn and lightly soiled with many small chips at the edges. Spine shows some sun-fading. Front cover is almost detached, though still hanging on. Interior is clean, though there is some scattered red underlining throughout. Pages show some age-toning. Overall, a very good copy.
$35.00
New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1943. 466pp. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn at the edges with some mild fading to the spine. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, save for a bookplate pasted onto the inside front board. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$20.00
(Tokyo):Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations). 1936. 42pp. Wraps. Covers are only lightly worn and in very good condition. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is some mild age-toning to the pages. Overall, this is a very good, clean copy.
$25.00
Mockba. 1984. 622pp. Faksimile rukopisi. Izd. teksta, perevod c Kitaiskogo, vvedenie, kommentarii, prilozheniya i slovar' L. N. Men'shikova. With English summary. An excellent copy. Publication of the Lotus Sutra Pienwen, one of the manuscripts found in the cave-temples of Mokao in Tunhuang in the province of Kansu.
$40.00
Boston:Little, Brown and Company. (1986). 254pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly frayed at the edges but otherwise only shows very mild wear. Book itself is in fine condition, with only some very minor shelf-wear to the boards. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
$40.00
London: Brian Harkins. 2000. Pagination absent. Illus. 1st. ed. Hard bound. A fine copy. 43 annotated fine illustrations. Includes an extensive 8pp. annotations of artists.
$15.00
An Imaginative Interpretation of Old China in Stories of Art and History. New York:J.B. Lippincott. (1944). 291pp. Hardcover. Covers is lightly worn and soiled with some sun-fading to the spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
Garden City, New York:Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1957. 256pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges with some fraying and several small chips and tears. Covers also show some soiling. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Binding is slightly cocked. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is some light foxing to the first and last few pages.
$12.50
NY:W. W. Norton & Company. 1996. 400pp. With dust jacket. A fine copy. S010.
$18.50
Berkeley:University of California Press. (1989). 346pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Binding is only lightly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a fine copy.
$15.00
Tokyo:The Fuzambo. 1931. 163pp + 70 plates. Hardcover, lacks dust jacket. Binding shows some wear to the edges, spine, and edge-points. Boards are also lightly bowed. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings, save for a previous owner's signature on the verso of the first free end-paper and light toning to the age edges. Overall, a very good copy.
$30.00
New York:International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations. 1939. 124pp. Wraps. Wraps are lightly worn at the edges with some light sun-fading and mild soiling to the covers. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
265pp. Deals with the historical origins of the peasant movement led by Fang Zhimin that engulfed the Xinjiang region in the late 1920's. A fine copy.
$15.00
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