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![Image for A Book of Famous and Beautiful Chinese Ladies from all Antiquities [Accordion Book with Hand-Painted Portraits on Silk]](/assets/images/product/1854595.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $200.00
Publisher: S.N.:
Seller ID: 1854595
Condition: Near Fine
Minor loss from edges of title label on front board. Wooden boards, carved Chinese character within a circle on front board, along with paper title label. A collection of ten color portraits of Chinese ladies handpainted on silk, mounted on sturdier backing paper, and bound in the accordion style popular for such publications of Eastern art. Each portrait captioned with a brief biographical sketch in both Chinese and English. Subjects include: Chang Li Hua; Mu-Lan; Wu Chiang-Hsien; Yang Yu-Huan; Ch'eng I-Nin; An Honorable Maid of the Tang Dynasty; Su Hui; Hua Jui Fu Jen; Hsi Shih; Li-Chuan. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bartholomew: 1992
Seller ID: 2280309
ISBN: 0702821349
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine condition. 1992 Soft Cover. Folded map. This publication covers the Roof of the World on a single large sheet at the scale of 1:3,000,000. Printed in eight colours, it allows subtle depiction of relief and landscape variety in this one of the most remote and sparsely populated mountain regions of the world. It is a detailed map for general reference, student research, and for those with an interest in mountaineering or travel to exotic destinations. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1988
Seller ID: 2280315
Condition: Very Good
Light stain along edges. 1988 Soft Cover. Folded map. Two-sided map. Close-up of mountain and perspective within local area of Himalayan mountain range. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $250.00
Publisher: The Kokka Publishing Company:
Seller ID: 2291186
Condition: Good
Former library copy - usual marks. Rear board partially broken away from binding. Light stain along edge of softcover supplement. Oblong. 88 prints, hand-numbered in pencil in top right margin, Japanese text introduction, softcover supplement with English intro and table of contents laid in. A collection of artwork by Hokusai, a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He is especially known for his work, The Great Wave. View more info
By: Allan, Tony; Phillips, Charles
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205626
Condition: Near Fine
A very nice copy.Jacket lightly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.China is among the world's oldest civilizations and home to many of the earliest achievements in the history of humankind. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese emperor ruled by Heavenly Mandate as the divinely appointed Son of Heaven, intermediary between the world of gods and mortals--Heaven and Earth--... View more info
By: Allchin, Bridget and Raymond
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1968
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2289291
ISBN: 0140209506
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Spine creased, pages lightly toned. 1968 Mass Market Paperback. 365 pp. Uniquely isolated by mountains and oceans, the Indian sub-continent exhibits in its archaeology a fascinating variety within an overall unity. This comprehensive survey of the foundations of Indian culture has been written by two authors with first-hand experience of digging in India: in their later chapters they are able to draw new conclusions about ancient Indian patterns of settlement, agriculture and economy, technology, religion, and art, and these are based on the finds of the last century and a half... View more info
By: Allen, Thomas Gaskell, Jr.; Sachtleben, William Lewis
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Century Co.: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288761
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Ink mark on spine, bookplate remains on front and rear paste-down endpapers, ink note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1894 Hard Cover. xii, 234 pp. Gilt titles on spine and on front board, top page ridge gilt. Deckled edges. Published during the Golden Age of Bicycles, with photographs showing cycle designs only recently invented. Describes a three year journey of over 15,000 miles. View more info
By: Ayscough, Florence; Lowell, Amy
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2291545
Condition: Very Good
Third printing. No jacket. Spine faintly toned, ink name and date in front free endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. xcv, 227 pp. Red boards with Asian characters on front board. Poems translated from the Chinese by Florence Ayscough. Includes fold-out map of China showing in black the present divisions and names and in red the ancient districts referred to in the poems. View more info
By: Beilenson, Peter; Behn, Harry
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1962
Seller ID: 2260187
Condition: Very Good
Small chip to jacket spine-head, jacket lightly toned. Ink name on front endpaper, minor pencil marginalia. 1962 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Translators Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn approached this volume with the twofold goal of crafting a book of haiku accessible to anyone and rendering their best guess at what the poets would have written in English. Their translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions in spare words. Haiku... View more info
By: Berlitz, Charles
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Wynwood Press: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2296325
ISBN: 0922066191
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1989 Hard Cover. 208 pp. The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it 70 miles from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast, 300 miles from the coast, and even near Iwo Jima, 750 miles from the coast. The story is apparently based on a few articles published in Japanese newspapers in January 1955 o... View more info
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section / Orient Longmans / Job Press Private Limited: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204371
Condition: Very Good
First editions. Two volumes are former library copies with a few associated marks, three volumes include original jackets. Volume 6 jacket toned. 1960 Hard Cover. Complete in six volumes. 8vo. A history of the Indian forces on the Eastern front during World War II, including information on Southeast Asia, Burma, Arakan operations, and Japan. Illustrated with fold-out maps. View more info
By: Blair, Clay, Jr.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1976
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2281647
ISBN: 0553010506
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Pages lightly toned. 1976 Trade Paperback. 1072 pp. A reconstruction of United States submarine activity in the Pacific during World War II assesses the submarine's role in the overall War. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd.: 1914
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1849188
Condition: Good
First edition. Page ridges and front & end matter lightly foxed, spine faded, corners rubbed, light stain on corner of first several pages. 1914 Hard Cover. xvi, 222 pp. 1-page terminal publisher ad. A history of the presence of the Dutch East Company in Southeast Asia, illustrated with photographs. View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: John Day Company: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269486
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, spine very slightly cocked, spine head and spine base lightly rubbed. 1956 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. When Pearl S. Buck finished writing her autobiographical work, My Several Worlds, she found that the most vivid character memory of her childhood life was Tzu Hsi, the last Empress of China. This is the woman usually known to Westerners as the Empress Dowager, or Old Buddha. But how little the West really knows of her! She has figured in an occasional book, but never before in English, nor indeed in any language so far as we know... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: John Day Company: 1956
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2276063
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned with minor loss from spine head and foot. 1956 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. When Pearl S. Buck finished writing her autobiographical work, My Several Worlds, she found that the most vivid character memory of her childhood life was Tzu Hsi, the last Empress of China. This is the woman usually known to Westerners as the Empress Dowager, or Old Buddha. But how little the West really knows of her! She has figured in an occasional book, but never before in English, nor indeed in any language so far as we know, h... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Moody Press: 1955
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2195264
Condition: Good
First paperback printing. Cover and pages heavily toned, two creases on spine, edges rubbed. 1955 Trade Paperback. 254 pp. The dauntless story of the British Missionary in Tibet, captive in Chinese Communist hands for three years. View more info
By: Burke, O. M.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: E. P. Dutton: 1975
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2296363
ISBN: 0525473866
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Very minor general wear. 1975 Trade Paperback. 203 pp. The First-Hand Account of a Westerner's Travels through the Land of the Sufis. View more info
By: Bussagli, Mario
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn: 1969
Seller ID: 2278847
ISBN: 1199076325
Condition: Very Good
Lightly rubbed. 1969 Hard Cover. The book discusses the alloy and mining processes, the casting techniques, and the evolving historical and social background over a two-thousand year period during which the tools, weapons, vessels, and musical instruments were made in China. View more info
By: Cable, Mildred; French, Francesca; Warner, Marina
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1987
Seller ID: 2295280
ISBN: 0807070335
Condition: Good
Former copy of St. John's Home - call number taped to spine, pocket and ink stamp. Marginalia throughout, pages lightly toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. xxi, 303 pp. Fold-out maps follows text. The author describes her experiences crossing the Gobi Desert in 1926 with her two fellow English missionaries, and shares her observations on the people and land of the region. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: The Citadel Press: 1974
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288089
ISBN: 0806504609
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Light general wear. 1974 Trade Paperback. 128 pp. This book is an extremely concentrated introduction to the mental, physical, and spiritual exercises of Tibetan Buddhism. Emphasizing the practice of Yoga exercises, the key to its understanding is the learning of Dumo--the generating of internal heat in one's body. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc: 2005
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2199955
ISBN: 1402729936
Condition: Very Good
1st printing. Light shelf wear. 2005 Large Softcover. 80 pp. By learning Chinese brush painting, you'll capture the essence of a subject, rather than all the details, in your work. It's the interplay of brush strokes and the space surrounding them that is the focus of this ancient art. Chinese Brush Painting will introduce you to both beginning and advanced techniques, enabling you to experiment with a variety of papers, inks, and brushes. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bay View Reading Group: 1904
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2208416
Condition: Very Good
Fourth edition. No jacket, boards lightly rubbed with light stain to rear board, pencil marginalia throughout. 1904 Hard Cover. xiv, 403 pp. CONTENTS: Physiography; Industrial Japan; Travel, Transportation, Commerce; People, Houses, Food, Dress; Manners and Customs; Japanese Traits; History (Old Japan); History (New Japan); Constitutional Imperialism; Local Self-Government; Japan as a World Power; Legal Japan; The New Woman in Japan; Language and Literature; Education; Aesthetic Japan; Disestablishment of Shinto; Confucianism, Bushido, Buddhism; Japanese Christendom; Twentieth Century Japan; T... View more info
By: Cohen, David
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Collins: 1989
Seller ID: 2279063
ISBN: 000215322X
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. An exceptional copy. 1989 Large Hardcover. Ninety of the world's leading photojournalists fanned out across China on a single day to take photographs of the people and places of the varied country. View more info
By: d'Ancona, Jacob; Selbourne, David
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Citadel Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294989
ISBN: 1559725230
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket reverse lightly foxed, remainder mark on page base. 2000 Hard Cover. xv, [5], 538 pp. In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the City of Light (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey until 1990, when David Selbourne was shown d'Ancona's account of his travels, a remarkable manuscript that had been hidden from public view for more than seven centuries. Eventually translat... View more info
By: David-Neel, Alexandra; Rothwell, Fred (Translator)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Shambala: 1971
Seller ID: 2289107
Condition: Very Good
Spine creased. 1971 Trade Paperback. 224 pp. Nestled amid the high peaks and eternal snows of the Himalayas and other mountain ranges, Tibet is home to a centuries-old Buddhist tradition, rich in mystic rites and rituals aimed at helping adherents achieve spiritual bliss. In this fascinating volume, a noted authority delves into the nature and sources of Tibetan mysticism, providing readers with a wealth of information regarding Lamaic rites of initiation and the teachings given to initiates, both during and after the initiation ceremonies. The author first defines Tibetan mysticism and examin... View more info
![Image for Chingis Khan [Genghis]](/assets/images/product/2295713.jpg)
By: Demi
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2295713
ISBN: 0805017089
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A very nice copy. 1991 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. As a boy, Genghis Khan inherited the role of leader after his father’s death. As a man, he earned it—by fiercely protecting his people, no matter the cost, and by demanding total loyalty from those he led. His is a story of courage and survival, sacrifice and death. The boy who became the great Genghis Khan would take his people from the brink of survival to near-world domination—and lead the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man. Based on both history and legend, Demi’s classic story takes readers int... View more info
![Image for The Story of Civilization 11 Volume Hardcover Set: I. Our Oriental Heritage, II. The Life of Greece, III. Caesar and Christ, IV. The Age of Faith, V. The Renaissance, VI. The Reformation, VII. The Age of Reason Begins, VIII. The Age of Louis XIV, IX. The Age of Voltaire, X. Rousseau and Revolution; XI. The Age of Napoleon [with] The Lessons of History](/assets/images/product/2294796.jpg)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1967
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2294796
Condition: Good
Book club editions. All volumes lack jackets. Binding of volume 6 repaired, hinges of a couple other volumes just beginning to weaken. 1967 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in eleven hardcover volumes, with The Lessons of History included as a bonus volume. 9 3/4 x 7. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles. Numerous black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. An exhaustive historical work including approximately 10,000 pages of material. The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is an eleven-volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime, and it ... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291140
ISBN: 0679456570
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1/4 inch jacket tear, jacket flap edges very faintly toned. Ink name on front flyleaf. 1997 Large Hardcover. 336 pp. By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina. Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This book is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases it includes the last photographs they took.--Front jacket flap. View more info
By: Faure, Bernard; Brooks, Phyllis
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 2000
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2150055
Condition: Good
2nd printing. Highlighting & pencil marginalia. 2000 Trade Paperback. xvi, 329 pp. Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual biography, Keizan is portrayed here less as an original thinker than a... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1876
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2119181
Condition: Good
First edition. Edges rubbed with some loss from corners, spine repaired, boards soiled. 1876 Hard Cover. 625, [11] pp. 8vo. Includes engraved plates and illustrations. A study of the Japanese empire that is part history, part travelogue, by a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo. View more info
