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By: Allen, Clement Francis Romilly
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.: 1891
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1980711
Binding shaken, front hinge repaired, endpapers lightly stained, owner bookplate on front endpaper, base of one section of pages bumped causing minor tear to bottom margin, some pages unopened. 1891 Hard Cover. xxviii, 528 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt & orange titles. An English translation of the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, known as the Shih Ching, which consists of 305 works from the 11th to 7th centuries B.C. It is one of the five classics... View more info
By: Aslam, Nadeem
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269607
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... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: John Day Company: 1956
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2276063
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 know... View more info
By: Chi, Li; Hsien-yi, Yang; Yang, Gladys
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press: 1964
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2025590
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. View more info
By: Hope, Laurence
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.: 1938
Seller ID: 2202416
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. View more info
By: Houying, Dai; Wood, Frances (Editor)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: St Martin's Press: 1985
Seller ID: 1310610
Article laid in. Jacket price clipped, jacket edge wear.Good. 1985 Hard Cover. One comes to care very much for the characters in this novel of modern China by a former Red Guard who now teaches literature at the University of Shanghai. As students and intellectuals during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 and the ensuing Cultural Revolution, Sun Yue, her husband, their friends and teachers fell into different political factions that attacked each other in ideological fo... View more info
By: Kamens, Edward
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262791
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 b... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Kodansha: 1978
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2263064
1st printing. Faintly rubbed. 1978 Mass Market Paperback. The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream--the... View more info
By: Keene, Donald
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1955
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2206084
1st printing. Wrappers and pages toned. 1955 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x, 114 pp. A brief history of Japanese literature and a small number of works that illustrate its mechanisms.KEYWORDS: DONALD KEENE JAPANESE LITERATURE ASIAN LITERARY CRITICISM View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1961
Seller ID: 2200494
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.Keyword... View more info
By: Misimas, Yukio
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262958
First edition. Two minor tears along top edge of jacket rear. Ink name on front endpaper. 1973 Hard Cover. 421 pp. Set between June 1932 and December 1933, it tells the story of young Isao Iinuma, a rightist reactionary trained in the samurai code by his father. Isao becomes the instigator of a plot to topple the zaibatsu that he feels have corrupted the Yamato-damashii and betrayed the will of the Emperor. He is assured of the army's assistance by the young Lieutenant H... View more info
By: Mizumura, Minae; Carpenter, Juliet Winters
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Other Press: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262839
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 immigran... View more info
Price: $115.00
Publisher: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center: 1977
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2278895
Very good in good jackets, except for volume 1 jacket which is fair (several chips, panels heavily rubbed and toned, two large repaired tears). Minimal ink marks in first volume. 1977 Hard Cover. x, [4], 319, [3]; pp. The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme r... View more info
By: Sackheim, Eric
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.: 1965
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2263751
Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor abrasion to paper along cloth spine on front board, boards and slipcase lightly rubbed, small ink number on slipcase label. 1965 Hard Cover. 203, [1] pp. A collection of English translations of Japanese poems, paired with reproductions of woodblock illustrations by Kitao Masami (Keisai), originally published in Ryakuga-shiki (The Way of Sketch) in 1795. View more info
By: Senryu; Oye, George M. [Koshyu, Oye]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: George M. Oye: 1981
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2123394
1983 2nd printing. Minor sticker remnant on front corner. 1981 Stapled Binding. 44 pp. Original Japanese with English transliteration and translation. View more info
By: Shikibu, Murasaki; Seidensticker, Edward G.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1977
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273490
Reprint. 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. View more info
By: Shikibu, Murasaki; Tyler, Royall
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Penguin: 2002
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2281341
Page base lightly stained, a few faint spots on top page edge. 2002 Trade Paperback. xxix, [3], 1182 pp. Translated by Royall Tyler. Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core... View more info
By: Stewart, Harold
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company: 1960
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2178404
14th printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase a bit rubbed, ink gift note & name on endpapers. 1960 Hard Cover. 180 pp. Original red & beige cloth, silver & black titles, gilt Japanese fan on front board. A collection of 320 Japanese haiku, with accompanying paintings. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Vintage: 2004
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269242
1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselves or each other becomes the question. Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi’s discovery tha... View more info
By: Tzu, Lao; Mair, Victor H.; Smith, Huston
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club: 1998
Seller ID: 2268456
A fine copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. xxii, 168 pp. Translated by Victor H. Mair. Introduction by Huston Smith. The classic collection of spiritual insights and observations called the Tao Te Ching embodies the search for a way to live based not on arbitrary rules of morality but on achieving harmony with all things. Here can be found an understanding of the essential oneness of the universe, that cosmic energy--chi'i--flows within and around us without ceasing, and that wi... View more info
By: Werner, E.T.C. [Edward Theodore Chalmers]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Brentano's: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266384
First American edition. Frontispiece repaired at binding, boards a bit soiled. 1922 Hard Cover. 453, [3] pp. A survey of Chinese mythology by the sinologist specializing in the myths, magic, and superstitions of China throughout history. In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E.T.C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and ... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2135214
First paperback printing. Two corners lightly stained, ink name & date inside. 1960 Mass Market Paperback. viii, 140, [2] pp. A translation of Issa's Oraga Haru, an autobiography in haibun - a mixed form of haiku and prose. View more info
