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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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Japanese Fine Arts. [Tourist Library Vol. 9].

By: Sagara, Prof. Tokuzo.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: els2853

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 249 pp. Near-Fine, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi: A Descriptive Biliography. Book One and Two.

By: Sharma, Jagdish Saran.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1968. Second Edition.:

Seller ID: 05320scs

Octavo, lavender illus. cloth (hardcover), 650 pp. Very Good, with slightly faded spine, former-owner stamp, lightly soiled half-title page
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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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Philippine Freedom 1946 - 1958.

By: Smith, Robert Aura.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.:

Seller ID: m2690

1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, [ix], 375 pp. Map. Very Good in a chipped dust jacket.
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Trip to Hanoi.

By: Sontag, Susan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1968). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 6553fd

Octavo, paperbound (slick white wrappers), 91 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkening) and lightly rubbed edges, crease to upper corner of lower cover. From lower cover: In May of 1968, Susan Sontag visited Hanoi. The report on her trip is neither a political treatise nor a travelogue, but a sensitve observer's response to a world totally foreign to the Western mind. During her trip, Susan Sontag discovered her preconception of North Vietnam and its people had little relevance to the actual situation. By reassessing her own point of view, Miss Sontag creates a startling picture of life...
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Shimoda Story.

By: Statler, Oliver.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 70526s

Octavo, black & tan illustrated cloth, (hardcover), gilt letters, xv, 627 pp. Illus. with maps, photos, figures. Near-Fine, with bumped corners, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. Shimoda Story is much more than a chronicle of negotiations [between the U.S. and Japan]. It is both a political and a social history of Japan in the 1850s. It gives a warm and intimate picture of Shimoda, a town of spirited inhabitants -- merchants and innkeepers, fishermen and farmers, girls who enticed and entertained the crews of coastal vessels; a town which was, for a few exciting months, the settin...
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Zayed Din Sultan Al-Nahayyan: The Leader and the March.

By: Tammam, Hamdi.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi, n.d.:

Seller ID: 005428scs

Folio, gold textured cloth (hardcover), 329 pp + [v] pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket and a Fine (As New) slipcase. Illustrated with full-color photos. From jacket: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, is one of those great personalities who have been brought up by the traditional culture of the desert. Since he took over the mantle of Abu Dhabi's leadership in 1966, Zayed has led his people on the most glorious march of a people toward their destiny....**The large size of this volume will necessitate increased shipping fees for Int...
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Japanese Gardens. [Tourist Library Vol. 5].

By: Tatsui, Prof. Matsunosuke.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: els2848

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 106 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges.
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Summer Palace. Le Palais D'Ete.

By: Weibiano, Hu; Chief Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: China Travel & Tourism Press, [1993].:

Seller ID: 17532scs

Octavo, softbound (glossy, full-color illus wrappers), 96 pp. Fine. Full-color photographic guide to the Summer Palace in China. Translated in French, English, and Chinese.
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Thunder Out of China.

By: White, Theodore H. and Annalee Jacoby.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., [1946].:

Seller ID: 4081s

Octavo, grey cloth, gilt letters, xvi, 331 pp. Maps. Very Good. Contents: Chungking, a Point in Time; The Peasant; The Rise of the Kuomintang; War; Stalemate; Campaign in the South Seas; Government by Trustee; Chiang K'ai-sheck, The People's Choice?; Doomed Men, The Chinese Army; Stilwell's War; The Honan Famine; Disaster in the East; The Chinese Communists; The Stilwell Crisis; Politics in Yenan; Patrick J. Hurley; 1945, The Year of the Great Promise; Utopia Stillborn; Victory and Civil War; China and the Future; Tentatively, Then...; Index; Maps.
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A History of Siam: From the Earliest Times to the Year A.D. 1781, with a Supplement Dealing with More Recent Events.

By: Wood, W.A.R., C.M.G., C.I.E., Lat H.B.M. Consul-General, Chiengmai.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bangkok: Chalermnit Bookshop, (1959).:

Seller ID: 173fdi

Octavo, white cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 300 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear.
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The Sui Dynasty.

By: Wright, Arthur F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Knopf, 1978. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 70275s

Octavo, cloth & boards, 237 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China.

By: Xiaoneng, Yang; Editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington: National Gallery of Art, (1999). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 3589bd

Folio, softbound, 584 pp. Color photos., illustrations. Fine. International orders will require additional postage.
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Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China. Edited by W. J. F. Jenner and Delia Davin. Translated by the Editors and Cheng Lingfang, Gladys Yang, Judy Burrows, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Carole Murray, Geremie Barme.

By: Xinxin, Zhang and Ye, Sand.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, [1987]. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 70276s

Octavo, cloth & boards, (hardcover), xxxii, 367 pp. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Japanese Dolls. [Tourist Library Vol. 17].

By: Yamada, Tokubei.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, (1955). First Edition.:

Seller ID: els2858

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 204 pp. Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping.
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