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A Book of Famous and Beautiful Chinese Ladies from all Antiquities [Accordion Book with Hand-Painted Portraits on Silk]

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: ., S.N.:

Seller ID: 1854595

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Yangliuqing New Year Pictures in China

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: .,

Seller ID: 2165572

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A few minor scuff marks to slipcase. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Paintings depicting Chinese New Year, printed on thick cardstock. Includes publisher's clamshell case.
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Mount Everest (Folded Map)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1988

Seller ID: 2280315

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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On Hokusai's Daily Exorcisms

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Tokyo, The Kokka Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 2291186

Binding: Large Hardcover

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.
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A Handbook of Current Americanisms (ASIAN CHARACTERS)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., 1981

Seller ID: 2297558

Binding: Small Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light crease on front wrapper, ink stamp on rear wrapper, top page ridge very lightly foxed. 1981 Small Softcover. 515 pp. 5 x 3 1/2. Asian characters. A Handbook of Current Americanisms.
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Japanese Drama (Tourist Library: 6)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Japan, Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways: 1936

Seller ID: 2309320

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Binding has been repaired. Light general wear to onion-skin wrapper. 1936 Soft Cover. 84 pp. CONTENTS: Earliest Period of the Japanese Drama; Final Form of the Ancient Drama; Development of the Kabuki Drama; First Creative Period; Puppet Drama; Second Creative Period; Music of the Theatre; Age of Full Development; From the Meiji Era; New Movements in the Japanese Drama; The Stage Today; Most Important Theatres; Bibliography.
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Ikebana International Magazine: Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, Spring-Summer 1968, Issue No. 23

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan, Ikebana International: 1968

Seller ID: 2298604

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Light smudge on front wrapper, minor general wear. 1968 Magazine. CONTENTS: From the Editor's Desk; President's Message; On the Cover; Perennial Favorite; Ikenobo School; The Artist Potter in Australia; Ichiyo School; Ohara School; Misho-ryu; Queen of Flowers; Enshu School; Sogetsu School; Ryuseiha; Bonsai in America; Make Your Own Bamboo Containers; Wild Flowers of France; Old Roses of Luxembourg. Sogetsu-ry? is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art. Sogetsu was founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1927. Sofu's father was an Ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sofu wanted to be...
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Ikebana International Magazine: Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, Fall-Winter 1966, Issue No. 19

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan, Ikebana International: 1966

Seller ID: 2298605

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Top corner bumped. 1966 Magazine. CONTENTS: From the Editor's Desk; 10 Years of Ikebana International Leadership; Akahada Pottery; President's Message; On the Cover; In Search of the Unusual; Japan, Land of Ivory and Ikebana; Sogetsu School; Hosokawa Bonseki School; Ohara School; Three Temples of Nara; Chiko School; Ikenobo School; Kofu School; Suika School; Seika Koryu; Ichiyo School; Hanagatami. Sogetsu-ry? is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art. Sogetsu was founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1927. Sofu's father was an Ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sofu wanted to bec...
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Ikebana International Magazine: Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, Exhibition 1967, Issue No. 20

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan, Ikebana International: 1967

Seller ID: 2298606

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

Bottom corner of rear wrapper lightly bumped. 1967 Magazine. CONTENTS: Chapter List; From the Editor's Desk; President's Message; On the Cover; Ikenobo in the Louvre; Latin American Tour and Exhibitions; How Ohara Produces an Exhibition; A Paramount Production. Sogetsu-ry? is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art. Sogetsu was founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1927. Sofu's father was an Ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sofu wanted to become a painter, but he found that the possibilities for creative expression in using green materials are endless, just as in painting. He fo...
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Ikebana International Magazine: Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, Spring-Summer 1967, Issue No. 21

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan, Ikebana International: 1967

Seller ID: 2298607

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Spine bumped. 1967 Magazine. CONTENTS: From the Editor's Desk; President's Message; On the Cover; Enshu; Ohara School; Ichiyo School; Saga; Sogetsu School; Shogetsudo-Koryu; Seasons and Reasons; Legend of a Japanese Home Garden; Ryuseiha; Ikenobo Institute; Wafu; Misho-Ryu Nakayama Bunpo-Kai; Soami; Nisshin; Beneath the Surface. Sogetsu-ry? is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art. Sogetsu was founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1927. Sofu's father was an Ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sofu wanted to become a painter, but he found that the possibilities for creative expres...
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Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales

By: Akinari, Uyed; Hamada, Kengi

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2308810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine jacket covered in a very good onionskin jacket. Pencil initials on front free endpaper, ink name on title page. 1971 Hard Cover. xxix, 150 pp. Ugetsu Monogatari (????, Tales of Moonlight and Rain) is a collection of nine supernatural tales by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari, first published in 1776. Largely taken from traditional Japanese and Chinese ghost stories, the collection is among the most important works of Japanese fiction of the 18th century, the middle of the Edo period. Edo literary achievements are normally associated with the fiction of Ihara Saikaku; the drama of C...
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The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan before 500 B.C.

By: Allchin, Bridget and Raymond

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, Penguin Books: 1968

Seller ID: 2289291

ISBN: 0140209506

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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...
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None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam

By: Allen, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ivan R. Dee: 2001

Seller ID: 2307996

ISBN: 1566633877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. xiv, 296 pp. From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to understand the nature of the fierce Communist-led struggle to create a unified, independent Vietnam. American intelligence played a key role in gathering information on the political and military situation in Vietnam and on the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. But as George Allen shows in this eye-popping memoir, intelligence appraisals were consistently ignore...
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Daughters of the Dragon: A Comfort Woman's Story (The Dragon Series, Book 1)

By: Andrews, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Seattle, Lake Union: 2016

Seller ID: 2309582

ISBN: 1503936260

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 351 pp. When twenty-year-old Anna Carlson travels from America to a Korean orphanage to locate her birth mother, she's devastated to learn the woman is already dead. But just when it seems her search is over, a stranger hands her a parcel containing an antique comband an address. That scrap of paper leads Anna to the Seoul apartment of the poor yet elegant Hong Jae-hee. Jae-hee recounts an epic tale that begins with the Japanese occupation of Korea and China during World War II, when more than two h...
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The Dragon Queen (The Dragon Series, Book 2)

By: Andrews, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Seattle, Lake Union: 2018

Seller ID: 2309583

ISBN: 1503900347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula, US diplomat Nate Simon is sent to Seoul to gauge the political situation and advise the president. He also needs to find out why someone sent the president an ancient, intricately carved comb with an ivory inlay of a two-headed dragon. Though familiar with Korea's language and culture, Nate knows little of its troubled history. Beautiful and mysterious embassy aide Anna Carlson believes it's time he learns, starting with the extraordinary story of Ko...
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Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese

By: Ayscough, Florence; Lowell, Amy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926

Seller ID: 2291545

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Indian Diary and Album

By: Beaton, Cecil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Oxford: 1991

Seller ID: 2305454

ISBN: 0192122991

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue with new introduction by Jane Carmichael. Faint edge wear. 1991 Hard Cover. In 1944, in one of its more inspired moments, the British Ministry of Information dispatched Cecil Beaton-- self-dramatizing exquisite, darling of London society, chosen photographer to royalty, and later the world-famous designer of My Fair Lady and Gigi--to the Far East to take pictures of the British Empire and its allies at war. The result was not only a superb collection of photographs but a breathtakingly vivid written portrait of India, Burma, and China at a historic turning-point in their histories. The...
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The Dragon's Triangle

By: Berlitz, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Wynwood Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2296325

ISBN: 0922066191

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Crane Wife

By: Bodkin, Odds

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Florida, Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303011

ISBN: 0152014071

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. When Osamu, a lonely sail maker, nurses an injured crane one blustery night, he never suspects that this simple act of kindness will change his life forever. Weeks later a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep, seeking shelter from a storm. Osamu again offers his help, and soon the sail maker and the stranger fall in love and marry. But when he learns of his wife's gift for making magic sails, ambition replaces compassion--and Osamu risks losing the great happiness he has found. With majestic ...
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The Dutch East: Sketches and Pictures, with Seventy-Eight Illustrations from Photographs

By: Brown, J. Macmillan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd.: 1914

Seller ID: 1849188

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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When Iron Gates Yield

By: Bull, Geoffrey T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Moody Press: 1955

Seller ID: 2195264

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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The Gobi Desert (Virago/Beacon Travelers)

By: Cable, Mildred; French, Francesca; Warner, Marina

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2295280

ISBN: 0807070335

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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Glimpses of Foreign Lands and People

By: Chapin, William Wisner

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock: 1926

Seller ID: 2263617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Special edition limited to 500 copies. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Small abrasion to base of rear board. 1926 Hard Cover. x, [2], [895]-996, 1047-1070, [1]-101, [3] pp. William Wisner Chapin produced 130 hand-colored lantern slides of Korea that are housed in the permanent collection of George Eastman House. These were used to illustrated his National Geographic Magazine article, 'Glimpses of Korea and China,' published in November 1910. Both the lantern slides and the article were products of Chapin's 1909 world tour.
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Carrier Admiral

By: Clark, Admiral J.J. 'Jocko'; Reynolds, Clark G.; Radford, Admiral Arthur W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 2308152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few small tears along top edge of jacket, jacket edges bumped. Spine slightly cocked, some faint spots on page ridges. 1967 Hard Cover. xv, 333 pp. In this book, which is unique to American naval literature, Jocko Clark recounts a story that no one else in naval aviation has ever told. Throughout his career he was involved with the men who developed American naval aviation. He knew them personally, and flew with them in the early days. He tested their planes and theories of combat. He shared their frustrations and their magnificent moments of success in World War II and the Ko...
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A Handbook of Modern Japan

By: Clement, Ernest W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Bay View Reading Group: 1904

Seller ID: 2208416

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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A Day in the Life of China: Photographed By 90 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on One Day, April 15, 1989

By: Cohen, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Collins: 1989

Seller ID: 2279063

ISBN: 000215322X

Binding: Large Hardcover

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.
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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo

By: d'Ancona, Jacob; Selbourne, David

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Citadel Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2294989

ISBN: 1559725230

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants (Volume I)

By: Davis, John Francis

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1845

Seller ID: 2309267

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink name on front paste-down endpaper, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper, some pages lightly foxed. 1845 Small Hard Cover. 383 pp. Volume I of II. Includes fold-out map. Illustrated with woodcuts. CONTENTS: Introduction; Early European Intercourse; English Intercourse; Geographical Sketch of China; Summary of Chinese History; Government and Legislation; Character and Manners; Manners and Customs; Cities--Peking.
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China and Great Britain: The Diplomacy of Commercial Relations, 1860-1864 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 50)

By: Dean, Britten

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 2307097

ISBN: 0674117255

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Ink underlining, some pages dog-eared. 1974 Soft Cover. 223 pp. Based on unpublished as well as published Chinese and British archival materials, this book focuses on the negotiations for the implementation of the commercial provision of the Treaty of Tientsin. Topics studies in detail include the opening of the Yangtze River to trade, problems in the river trade, revisions of the river trade regulations, and the opening of the bean trade at the northern ports to British shipping. A concluding chapter places Sino-British commercial policies within the context of Britain's overall China policy ...
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Chingis Khan [Genghis]

By: Demi

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1991

Seller ID: 2295713

ISBN: 0805017089

Binding: Large Hardcover

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 fathers death. As a man, he earned itby 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 dominationand lead the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man. Based on both history and legend, Demis classic story takes readers into a world of...
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