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By: Aslam, Nadeem
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269607
ISBN: 0571221807
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... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: John Day Company: 1956
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2276063
Condition: Very Good
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 knows of her! She has figured in an occasional book, but never before in English, nor indeed in any language so far as we know, h... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: International Collectors Library: 1949
Seller ID: 2300976
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... View more info
By: Chi, Li; Hsien-yi, Yang; Yang, Gladys
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press: 1964
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2025590
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. View more info
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1976
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294865
Condition: Very Good
A few minor scuffs, edges of endpapers a bit faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1976 Full-Leather. xxv, [4], 130 pp. 8vo. Original yellow leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Illustrated with paintings by Tseng Yu-Ho. A distillation of Confucius's thought, presented in a series of aphorisms. View more info
By: Hiroshige, Ichiryusai; Chiba, Reiko
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company: 1975
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2300346
ISBN: 0804802467
Condition: Near Fine
Includes slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. 1975 Small Hard Cover. Includes slipcase. The Charles E. Tuttle Company first published this charming souvenir book in slipcase in 1957. It features the 53 woodblock prints made by Ichiryusai Hiroshige in1832 showing the stopping places along the road from Tokyo to Kyoto (the route known as Tokai-do) and accompanying Japanese poetry. The book measures about 4 x 6 inches, bound in Japanese print cloth over flexible covers, and is housed in an illustrated slipcase. The prints are reproduced in miniature, each m... View more info
By: Hope, Laurence
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.: 1938
Seller ID: 2202416
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. View more info
By: Ishiguro, Kazuo
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301328
ISBN: 1400043395
Condition: Fine
First American edition. An exceptional copy. 2005 Hard Cover. 288 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the film of the same name. From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly re-imagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the soci... View more info
By: Kamens, Edward
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262791
ISBN: 0939512343
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... View more info
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1961
Seller ID: 2200494
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. Keywords: HISTORY SANSKRIT LITERATURE LANGUAGE REFERENCE LITERARY CRITICISM View more info
By: Misimas, Yukio
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262958
ISBN: 0394466187
Condition: Very Good
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 Hori. They plan to assassinate many key government figures simultaneously on December 3, 1932. View more info
By: Mizumura, Minae; Carpenter, Juliet Winters
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Other Press: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262839
ISBN: 1590512030
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... View more info
By: Murakami, Haruki; Gabriel, Philip; Goossen, Ted
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: Vintage International: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291693
ISBN: 052552004X
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 ... View more info
Price: $115.00 $92.00
Publisher: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center: 1977
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2278895
Condition: Very Good
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 ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and i... View more info
By: Sackheim, Eric
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.: 1965
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2263751
Condition: Very Good
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: Stewart, Harold
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company: 1960
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2178404
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Werner, E.T.C. [Edward Theodore Chalmers]
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Brentano's: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266384
Condition: Very Good
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 British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily... View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2135214
Condition: Good
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
