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Maps for Lost Lovers

By: Aslam, Nadeem

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 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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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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Wang Kuei and Li Hsiang-Hsiang: A Narrative Poem

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

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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India's Love Lyrics: De Luxe Edition

By: Hope, Laurence

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Garden City, Garden City Publishing Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 2202416

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners exposed, light stain on rear board. 1938 Hard Cover. 182 pp. Pictorial endpapers, full color plates by Byam Shaw throughout text. A compilation of poetry containing more than 75 different pieces.
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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: 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: 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 Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen: Two Novellas (Japanese Literature Series)

By: Mizukami, Tsutomu; Washburn, Dennis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Champaign, Dalkey Archive Press: 2008

Seller ID: 2305565

ISBN: 1564784908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2008 Hard Cover. 203 pp. Two novels, translated into English with a postscript by Dennis Washburn. The Temple of the Wild Geese, a semi-autobiographical account of Mizukami's childhood, tells the tale of Jinen, a Buddhist monk raised by villagers after his mother, a beggar, abandoned him. Sent to live at a temple at the age of ten, his resentment smolders for years until it explodes in a shocking climax. In Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, no woman is willing to marry the diminutive Kisuke, a bamboo artisan, until Tamae, a prostitute, comes to pay...
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A True Novel

By: Mizumura, Minae; Carpenter, Juliet Winters

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Other Press: 2013

Seller ID: 2262839

ISBN: 1590512030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First American edition - a paperback original. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spines lightly creased. 2013 Trade Paperback. 454, [1]; 457-854, [1] pp. Pictorial wrappers. The first English translation of Honkaku Shosetsu, originally published in 2002. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A remaking of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan. A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, h...
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Killing Commendatore

By: Murakami, Haruki; Gabriel, Philip; Goossen, Ted

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Vintage International: 2013

Seller ID: 2291693

ISBN: 052552004X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2013 Hard Cover. 681, [15] pp. 8vo. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a ...
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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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Translations from the Chinese

By: Waley, Arthur

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1941

Seller ID: 2303907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded with minor loss from black of title panel, owner bookplate on front endpaper, some smudges on slipcase. 1941 Hard Cover. 325 pp. Beautiful illustrations by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge throughout text accent the works of Chinese authors such as Ch'u Yuan, Sung Yu, Hsi-chun, Wu-ti, Mei Sheng & Fu I, Cho Wen-chun, General Su Wu, Ch'in Chia, Sung Tzu-hou, Ch'eng Hsiao, Wei Wen-ti, Ts'ao Chih, Yuan Chi, Liu Hsun's Wife, Chi K'ang, Fu Hsuan, Tso Ssu, Chang Tsai, Miu Hsi, Lu Yun, Ch'eng-kung Sui, T'ao Ch'ien, Taoyun, Chan Fang-sheng, Pao Chao, Hsieh T'iao, Tsang ...
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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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