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Maps for Lost Lovers

By: Aslam, Nadeem

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 2004

Seller ID: 2269607

ISBN: 0571221807

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A bit smoky. 2004 Hard Cover. 369, [5] pp. 8vo. The second novel by the award-winning British Pakistani author. In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared - and Chanda's brothers have been arrested for their murder. What follows is an unravelling of all that is sacred to the family, as the pious Kaukab tries desperately to square the traditional justice of her culture with the more personal consequences of their murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion and expresses their pa...
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Image for The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne

The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne

By: Burton, Sir Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1955

Seller ID: 2306243

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert Number X-XI: 20. Slipcase edges rubbed with splits beginning at top and bottom seams. 1955 Large Hardcover. xiv, 330, vi, 136; ix, 331-674, v, 137-262 pp. Translated by Sir Richard Burton, with color plates by Arthur Szyk and extensive notes by Henry Torrens, Edward Lane, and John Payne. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within...
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Wang Kuei and Li Hsiang-Hsiang: A Narrative Poem

By: Chi, Li; Hsien-yi, Yang; Yang, Gladys

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press: 1964

Seller ID: 2025590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Includes original jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. Good. 1964 Hard Cover. 33 pp. 8vo. A volume of poetry by a soldier in the War of Resistance Against Japan and an instructor in the People's Liberation Army.
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The Ethics of Confucius: The Sayings of the Master and His Disciples upon the Conduct of 'The Superior Man' Arranged According to the Plan of Confucius with Running Commentary

By: Confucius; Dawson, Miles Menander; Fang, Wu Ting

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1915

Seller ID: 2303922

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, minimal loss of gilt from spine and front board titles. 1915 Hard Cover. xxi, 323 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Confucius. One of the early American missionaries to China tells us that when he had finally convinced a Chinese scholar that there were schools in America the immediate assumption was: 'Then the people of your honorable nation are also acquainted with the books of Confucius.' It was a false assumption, and yet it is a great pity that more Americans are not familiar with the teachings which have moulded the lives of cou...
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The Analects of Confucius

By: Confucius; Giles, Lionel

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Limited Editions Club / Plantin Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2304381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's box, with monthly letter and prospectus sheet laid in. Onion skin jacket included. #753 of 1500, signed by illustrator Tseng Yu-Ho on limitation page. Laid in is a bookseller's slip, owner bookplate of Walter Norwood Thompson on front paste-down endpaper, seams of box corners along spine split but box still sturdy and square. 1970 Hard Cover. xxvii, [5], 131 pp. Decorative cloth boards, paper spine label mirrored on box. Illustrated with twelve double-spread paintings by Tseng Yu-Ho. A distillation of Confucius's thought, presented in a series of aphorisms, translated with...
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The Chinese Decameron, Now First Rendered into English

By: De Fornaro, Carlo

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Lotus Society: 1929

Seller ID: 2305953

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #156 of 500 copies, hand-numbered on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, slipcase rubbed with two nickel-sized surface tears on rear panel, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. 205 pp. A collection of classic Chinese stories, translated into English here for the first time. From the translator's preface: Most of the stories appearing in 'The Chinese Decameron' were translated into French several generations ago, from the original Chinese, by George Soulie De Morant. He culled them from the old classic novels of the 16th century, which we...
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The Lost Flute and Other Chinese Lyrics

By: Joerissen, Gertrude Laughlin; Toussaint, Franz

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York City, The Elf, Publishers: 1929

Seller ID: 2308111

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #1531 of 1950. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. xiv, 185 pp. Being a translation from the French by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen. A collection of Chinese poetry and literature.
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The Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori's Sanboe (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 2)

By: Kamens, Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan: 1988

Seller ID: 2262791

ISBN: 0939512343

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink name stamp on front endpaper. 1988 Hard Cover. xii, 446 pp. 8vo. The Three Jewels is a crucial text for understanding lay attitudes toward tenth-century Japanese Buddhism, especially toward the influential Tendai tradition. Through Kamens's carefully annotated translation of the text, the reader gains insight into how many members at court must have viewed the complex ceremonies and traditions of a religious tradition which was often exotic and alien because of its origins in India and China. A reading of The Three Jewels suggests some of the ways in which Buddhism was adapt...
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A History of Sanskrit Literature

By: Keith, A. Berriedale

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2200494

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages toned, ink stamp to title page. Large sections missing from top and bottom edges of jacket spine, ink notation to jacket front, jacket edges rubbed. 1961 Hard Cover. xxxvi, 575 pp. ...this work covers the field of Classical Sanskrit Literature, as opposed to the Vedic Literature, the epics and the Puranas. The book is divided into three parts: Part I is general, and covers the Language; Part II, Belles-Lettres and Poetics; and Part III, Scientific Literature.
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The Mahabharata

By: Rao, Shanta Rameshwar

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hyderabad, Orient Longmans: 1987

Seller ID: 2305672

ISBN: 086131607X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover reprint. Faint edge wear. 1987 Hard Cover. Selections from the Indian epic told in an easy-to-understand format.
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Short Stories

By: Saki; Letts, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1979

Seller ID: 2305623

ISBN: 0850670918

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. Lacks slipcase. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1979 Hard Cover. 244 pp. Drawings by Sir Osbert Lancaster. CONTENTS: Reginald in Russia (1910); The Chronicles of Clovis (1911); Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914); The Toys of Peace (1923); The Square Egg (1924).
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The Tale of Genji, in Two Volumes

By: Shikibu, Murasaki; Seidensticker, Edward G.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977

Seller ID: 2303910

ISBN: 0394483286

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spines a bit faded. 1977 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 1090 pp. The Tale of Genji is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel to still be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of debate.
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Takao and Grandfather's Sword

By: Uchida, Yoshiko

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 2306698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Chips along bottom edge of front jacket panel, jacket spine lightly toned. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 127 pp. Illustrated by William M. Hutchinson. Takao longed to be allowed to help his father work at the potter's wheel and to fire the kiln. When his chance came, however, his thoughtless boasting and a quarrel with his little sister lead to a disastrous fire
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories

By: Xingjian, Gao

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 2305069

ISBN: 0060575557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2004 Hard Cover. Novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer Gao Xingjian is that rare breed of artist able to express himself with equal grace in almost any form of literature. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his astonishing talents. The collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather offers this author's own selection and arrangement of his shorter fiction.
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Six Four: A Novel

By: Yokoyama, Hideo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 2017

Seller ID: 2305345

ISBN: 0374265518

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2017 Hard Cover. An award-winning phenomenon in its native Japan?more than a million copies sold, and the winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year award?and already a critically celebrated top-ten bestseller in the U.K., Hideo Yokoyamas Six Four is an unforgettable novel by a literary master at the top of his form. It is a dark and riveting plunge into a crime, an investigation, and a culture like no other.
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