Category: Asian History

Shimoda Story.

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. ÒShimoda 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 setti...
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A History of the Orient.

By: Steiger, G. Nye; Beyer, H. Otley; Benitez, Conrado.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: Ginn and Company, (1929).

Seller ID: vita5517

Octavo, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), 469 pp. Very Good. Contents: Part I - The Beginnings of Oriental Civilizations (Down to the Fourth Century B.C.): Peopling of Eastern and Southern Asia, China from the Earliest Times to the Ch'in Dynasty, India before the Invasion of Alexander the Great, Population of Indo-China and Malaysia in Pre-Historic Times; Part II -- Development of Culture and Growth of Empires (From the Fourth Century B.C. to the End of the Twelfth Century of the Christian Era): India from the Time of Alexander to the Mohammedan Invasions, China from the Ch'ins to the M...
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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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The Samurai and the Sacred.

By: Turnbull, Stephen.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2006. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas581

Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), 224 pp. Color photographs, illustrations throughout. Fin in a Fine dust jakcet.
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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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The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi. Translated by Eiichi Kiyooka. With an Introduction by Shinzo Koizumi.

By: Yukichi, Fukuzawa.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, (1960). New Translation.

Seller ID: 4926fd

Inscribed and signed by the translator. Octavo, gilt-stamped black cloth, xx + [ii] + 401 pp. Photographs. Yukichi was the founder of Keio University. Fine.
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Faces of Japan.

By: Zeisloft, Norman; MSgt., USAF.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1958.

Seller ID: 2530qms

Quarto, softbound (stiff, stapled, b&w photo. illus. wrappers), unpaginated. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature.
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Category: Asian History