Category: Asian History

An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul; Being the Substance of Observations Made Durnig a Mission to That Country in the Year 1793.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India: Manjusri Publishing House, [1969].

Seller ID: 70261s

Reprint of the 1811 Edition. Bibliotheca Himalayica, Series 1, Volume 3. Of an Edition of 1,000, This is No. 179. Quarto, cloth (hardcover), xix, 386 pp. Fold-out map, plates. Near-Fine.
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Japanese Architecture. [Tourist Library Vol. 6].

By: Kishida, Prof. Hideto.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, (1953).

Seller ID: els2849

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 140 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges.
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Surely the Gods Live Here: An Incredible Journey to the Himalayas and Sikkim. Illustrated by the Author.

By: Lank, David.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto: The Brownstone Press, 1982.

Seller ID: 28364

1st edition. Oblong octavo, cloth, 126 pp. Illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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The Coming Decline of the Chinese Empire. With a Dissenting Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury.

By: Louis, Victor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Times Books, [1979]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70263s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xxii, 198 pp. Map. Fine, in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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The People of the Leaves.

By: Meik, Vivian.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1931. First Edition.

Seller ID: 51198bd

Octavo, green blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 194 pp. Near-Fine+, with former-owner bookplate and light foxing to page edges; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: In the jungles of Bengal, to the south of Rairakhol, Vivian Meik discovered an aboriginal race hitherto unknown to man. Knowing nothing of fire, cooking or clothing and finding their only shelter in the roots of trees, these small people are the most primitive race known to sicence. Mr. Meik, the first white man they had ever seen, was able to...
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Ethno-Sociological Reports of Three Korean Villages.

By: Mills, Dr. John E.; Community Development Division.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA: United Nations Command, Office of the Economic Coordinator for Korea, 1958.

Seller ID: 2557qms

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, stapled, illus. wrappers), 43 pp + 25 pp + 19 pp. Very Good+, with light wear to spine and light foxing (age darkened spotting). Village Surveys: Nopunto (Nam, Kyu Back); Hasin (Park, Joon); Naejonja (Yoon, Eul Byong). rom Introduction: The data on the three surveyed villages were collected in 1957 by Korean staff members of the Community Development Division, Office of the Economic Coordinator for Korea. The surveys were directed by Mrs. Lucy Adams, Chief, Community Development Division, OEC, and suprevised by Mr. Preziosi, Resettlement Officer seconded from U...
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Twentieth Century India.

By: Mitchell, Kate and Kumar Goshal. [Maxwell S. Stewart; Editor]/

Price: $20.00

Publisher: St. Louis: A Cooperative Project between American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations and Webster Publishing Company, [1944].

Seller ID: 17280scs

Octavo, paperbound (stapled illus. grey wrappers), 94 pp. Illus. with b&w photos, maps. Very Good+, with former owner info. Contents: Inida Old and New; The Peoples of India; Village Life in India; Wealth and Poverty; How India is Governed; Growth of Indian Nationalism; India and the War.
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China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality.

By: Mosher, Steven W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: New Republic/Basic Books, [1990]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70266s

Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 260 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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Korean Folk Songs.

By: n.l.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: n.l.

Seller ID: 2855qs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled, illus. wrappers), 47 pp. Near-Fine.
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Ohara's Guide to the Game of Shogi. With a Preface by Lindesay Parrott.

By: Ohara. [Parrott, Lindesay; Preface].

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., 1954. First Edition.

Seller ID: 2515qms

Octavo, boards (hardcover), 182 pp. Very Good, with inked notes to rear endpapers and darkening to spine and edges.
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Japanese Architecture. [Tourist Library Vol. 21].

By: Okada, Yuzuru.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, (1956).

Seller ID: els2855

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 220 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges.
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Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party.

By: Onate, Andres D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago: Nelson-Hall, (1979). First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5516

Octavo, burgundy textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 289 pp. Very Good+ in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear and price sticker. From dust jacket: Despite China's emergence as a global super-power, it remains a world apart in the minds of many Westerners, a nation whose culture is so foreign as to be beyond our ready understanding. In reality, however, the historical forces which have shaped modern China are no more mystifying or incomprehensible than those of other societies. And as China's impact on world affairs increases, a general appreciation of its makeup...
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Beijing: Glipses of History.

By: Pin, Liao; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Beijing: Foreign Language Press, [1993].

Seller ID: 17528scs

Large, square octavo, softbound (full-color photo illus. wrappers), 115 pp. Fine. Translated in English and Chinese characters. A pictorial guide to the historical sites in and around Beijing.
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The Voyage of the New Hazard, To the Northwest Coast, Hawaii and China, 1810-1813. Edited by Judge F. W. Howay.

By: Reynolds, Stephen.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Salem: Peabody Museum, 1938.

Seller ID: 3282qsl

First Edition. One of 100 on Sterling antique paper and printed by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Octavo, cloth-backed marbled paper, top edge gilt, uncut, xxii, 158 pp. Plates. Fine; much unopened.
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Industrial Society in Communist China: A Firsthand Study of Chinese Economic Development and Management -- with Significant Comparisons with Industry in India, the U.S.S.R., Japan, and the United States.

By: Richman, Barry M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, [1969]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70269s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xiii, 968 pp. Map endpapers. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India: and the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to It by the Cape of Good Hope. With an Appendix.

By: Robertson, William.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Published by John Bioren & Tho. L. Plowman, 1812. First American Edition, from the Fifth London Edition.

Seller ID: 3194qsl

Octavo, original mottled calf (hardcover, leather), calf label, vi + [ii] + 384 + [xix] pp. Two large fold-out maps. Very Good, with some cover scuffing.
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A Pictorial History of Kinjo Gakuin, 1889-1989. [Text in Japanese Characters with English Translation].

By: Sasa, Sho; Editor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Kinjo Gakuin, 1989. First Edition.

Seller ID: mfs206

Quarto, hardcover (rose cloth), gilt letters, 111 pp. Chancellor's letter taped to ffep.; otherwise, Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges, in protective mylar wrapper. From Chancellor's note: This year Kinjo Gakuin celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding. This book was compiled by Sho Sasa of the high school to give the reader a visual record of the various changes which have taken place throughout the school's history. One century ago in the Chubu District of Japan the social position of women was regrettably low with women's education in a very underdeve...
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The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966.

By: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70214s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 126 pp. Near-Fine, in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Selected Photographic Works of Shi Le-yan.

By: Shi Le-yan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ?, China: ?, [2003].

Seller ID: 800068m

1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the translator, Veserlee-Ge. Quarto, softbound, text in Chinese and English, [viii], [120], [ii] pp. Color photos of Yandang Mountain throughout.
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Chushingura, An Exposition. Illustrated with Hiroshige's Coloured Plates.

By: Shioya, Sakae.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1956. Second Edition.

Seller ID: 9072gcs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), red letters, white illus. to upper cover, full-color tissue protected folding frontis., xii, 236 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From Preface: Considering the great importance attached to the play Chushingura and the historical fact on which it was founded, the vendetta of the Ako retainers, as indispensable material to students of Japanese thought and spirit, old and yet still surviving in part, it is surprising to find that only a few Egnlish books on them have appeared and those quite incomplete or misleading for the right un...
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Category: Asian History