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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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Mount Everest (Folded Map)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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: 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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Ikebana International Magazine: Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, Spring-Summer 1968, Issue No. 23

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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: 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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Ikebana Sogetsu, 56

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sogetsu-School:

Seller ID: 2298609

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

JAPANESE TEXT. Very minor general wear. 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 found that the strict rules of traditional ikebana did not allow individual expression. He broke away from traditional ikebana and formed his school in 1926. In the beginning, he promoted the school through radio. As of 2016...
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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: 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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Singapore, 1941-1942 (The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

By: Allen, Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: mph: 1977

Seller ID: 2303056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1977 Trade Paperback. 343 pp. Winston Churchill described the loss of Singapore as the greatest disaster ever to befall British arms. Louis Allen analyzes the remote political causes of the Japanese campaign, gives an account of the events of the campaign, and then attempts to apportion responsibility for the defeat.
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Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese

By: Ayscough, Florence; Lowell, Amy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 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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Haiku Harvest (Japanese Haiku, Series IV)

By: Beilenson, Peter; Behn, Harry

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1962

Seller ID: 2260187

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Dragon's Triangle

By: Berlitz, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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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The Good Earth (International Collectors Library)

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: International Collectors Library: 1949

Seller ID: 2300976

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front joint broken, top edge of board lightly bumped. 1949 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. Original Black leatherette hardcover binding with gold lettering & design, gilt top page ridge, purple ribbon marker. This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. Hard times come upon Wang Lu...
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When Iron Gates Yield

By: Bull, Geoffrey T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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Chinese Bronzes

By: Bussagli, Mario

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Paul Hamlyn: 1969

Seller ID: 2278847

ISBN: 1199076325

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Gobi Desert (Virago/Beacon Travelers)

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

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Chinese Brush Painting

By: Cherrett, Pauline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc: 2005

Seller ID: 2199955

ISBN: 1402729936

Binding: Large Softcover

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.
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A Handbook of Modern Japan

By: Clement, Ernest W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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Les Etats Hindouises D'Indochine Et D'Indonesie [The Hindu States of Indochina and Indonesia] [French Text]

By: Coedes, G.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1964

Seller ID: 2300402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1964 Hard Cover. 494. French text. Fold-out maps follow text. A history of the Hindu States of Indochina and Indonesia.
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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: 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: 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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Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

By: David-Neel, Alexandra; Rothwell, Fred (Translator)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Shambala: 1971

Seller ID: 2289107

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Chingis Khan [Genghis]

By: Demi

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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 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...
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Color Schemes of Japanese Aircrafts in World War II, Feb. 1964

By: Flanagan, Dale Norman; Oishi, Yasuo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oishi and Company: 1964

Seller ID: 2299110

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Minor general wear, ink name on page one. 1964 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. A miscellany of drawings with useful data and authoritative articles reflecting modellers' interest regarding to Japanese aircrafts of the World War II.
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Children of Hachiman

By: Guest, Lynn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bodley Head: 1980

Seller ID: 2199936

ISBN: 0370303113

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages lightly toned. Jacket toned, jacket flaps foxed. 1980 Hard Cover. 309 pp. Dramatizes the life of 12th-century Samurai warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune, a renowned hero from Japanese history. ...the story of three Minamoto brothers whose outstanding talents combined to make the eldest the ruler of Japan, but whose mutual antagonisms and rivalries eventually led in personal terms to death and ruin. Above all, it is the story of the meteoric career of the youngest, Yoshitsune, a military genius raised secretly by warlike Buddhist monks to be the brilliant leader of the Minamoto ar...
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