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The Invisible China: The Overseas Chinese and the Politics of Southeast Asia.

By: Alexander, Garth.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Macmillan, [1974]. First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 70253s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xiv, 264 pp. Photos. Former-owner signature; otherwise, Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Across Mongolain Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's Great Northwest. Photographs by Yvette Borup Andrews.

By: Andrews, Roy Chapman.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1921).:

Seller ID: 51281fd

Octavo, illustrated gray cloth (hardcover), xxiv, 276 pp. Photographs throughout. Second Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. Good; light shelfwear, former-owner inscription, bookplate.
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Religious Attitudes of Japanese Men: A New Sociological Survey Concerned with the Religiosity of the Japanese Man-in-the-Street. By Fernando M. Basabe, Ph.D., Professor of Social Psychology, Sophia University and Co-Director of the Sophia University Socio-Economic Institute, in Collaboration with Anzai Shin, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology of Relgion, Sophia University and Federico Lanzaco, M. A., Professor of Religion, Sophia University.

By: Basabe, Fernando M., Ph.D.; Shin, Anzai, Ph.D.; Lanzaco, Federico, M.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan: Sophia University, Tokyo, in Co-Operation with Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1968). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 2693qs

Royal octavo, cloth backed boards (hardcover), black spine label, gilt letters, vii + 135 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear.
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The Background of Asia.

By: Battistini, Lawrence H.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Tokyo: International Division, Sophia University Press, 1951. First Edition.:

Seller ID: els2870

Octavo, burgundy leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi + 250 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear; in a poor dust jacket with edgewear that includes large chips. From dust jacket: A concise, objective and readable account of the background of Asia. Japan, China and India, the three principal countries of Asia, are stressed. While essential ancient history background is included in summary form, the text concentrates on the modern and contemporary period. Included are chapters dealing with the occupation of Japan and the war in Korea. Although compact, the volume sheds light on a numbe...
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Tray Landscapes. [Tourist Library Vol. 19].

By: Bonkei and Bonseki.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: els2856

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, plates, 218 pp. Fine, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping.
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At Home in India.

By: Bowles, Cynthia.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1956].:

Seller ID: 28072

1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, cloth, viii, 180 pp. Photos. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Land and Polity in Tibet.

By: Carrasco, Pedro.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1959. First Edition. A publication of of the American Ethnological Society.:

Seller ID: 17680scs

Octavo, boards (cream spine, green letters & covers), hardcover, vii, 307, [iii] pp. Very Good, with edgewear. Illustrated with maps. Contents: Introduction: The Basic Economy of Tibet; Political Units; Historical Review; The Peasantry: Western Tibet: Spiti, Ladak, and Lahul; Central Tibet; Sikkim; Bhutan; Eastern Tibet: Khams; Property Relations among Herders: The Nomads of A-mdo; The Realm of the Dalai Lama: Political Organization; The Land System [Appendix I. Estates of the Noble Families of Lhasa; Appendix II. Holdings of Some Relgious Entities; Appendix III. Treasury Estates ...
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Thai Fok Tales.

By: Chalermnit.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bangkok: Chalermnit Press, 1967.:

Seller ID: 2885qs

Octavo, color-illus. boards (hardcover), 113 pp. Good+, with edgewear.
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Sian: A Coup D'Etat. A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts from a Diary by Chiang Kai-Shek.

By: Chiang, Mayling Soong. (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek) and Chiang Kai-Shek.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Shanghai: The China Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 165fdi

Octavo, string bound silk wrapped boards (hardcover), x + 119 pp. Good+, with wear to spine and sunning to edges, slight foxing (age darkened spotting). From Foreword: For the sheer thrill of danger, romance, calm courage and dramatic climax, these two documents have all the fascinating interest of a historical novel. But this is immensely intensified when it is realized that they are the authoritative records of actual happenings only a few months ago while the fate of a great nation was literally trembling in the balance and the whole world was awaiting the outcome with puzzled bewilderm...
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Through the Land of Living Gods: My Pilgrimage at the Wish of the Master.

By: Cross, Gladys.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Published by the author, 1930.:

Seller ID: es4172

Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), 172 pp. From Foreword: Lines drawn from Yea Keang to the Yu Men and from Draus to Sining-Fu, have for years marked the North and South boundaries of my adopted country into which, in every way, I have penetrated deeper than any other white. In this land of mystery or, for the moment, occultism, and beyond; I have tried to alleviate the distress brought to huge members of my sex by a fearful disease. That the lamas of the districts on and off the routes about my places are rich, is proof of the widely known efficacy of treatments which are unfortunately limit...
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He Opened the Door of Japan: Townsend Harris and the Story of His Amazing Adventures in Establishing American Relations with the Far East.

By: Crow, Carl.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Harper, 1939. First Edition, A-O.:

Seller ID: 51287fd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), zvii + 275 pp. Plates, illustrated endpapers. Near-Fine in a badly chipped, mylar protected dust jacket.
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Island-India.

By: De Wit, Augusta.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 3618bd

Octavo, illustrated cloth (hardcover), xv, 105 pp. Color plates. Near-Fine.
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Flower of Joy.

By: DeLeeuw, Hendrik.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: Lee Furman, (1939). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51289fd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), [viii] + 241 pp. Near-Fine in a a clean, but spine-faded dust jacket.
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History of India. Edited by A. V. Williams Jackson. [9 volume set].

By: Dutt, Romesh Chunder, et al.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London: The Grolier Society, (1906). Of an edition of 1,000, this is No. 790 of The Edition Nationale.:

Seller ID: 51623bd

Nine volumes. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), paper labels, top edges gilt, uncut. Color frontis. for each volume, black & white plates, illustrations, maps. Near-Fine; minor scuffing here and there. This large and heavy set will require additional shipping fees.
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Forbidden Road -- Kabul to Samarkand.

By: Forbes, Rosita.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Dutton, (1937). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51293fd

Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), xi, 289 pp. Photographs, map. Very Good, with bookplate, in a chipped, mylar protected dust jacket.
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Historical Relics Unearthed in New China.

By: Foreign Languages Press.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.:

Seller ID: 17335scs

Folio, white cloth (hardcover), red chinese characters, 217 pp. Fold-out chart, enclosed Foreword. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting), in a Fine dust jacket, in slipcase. With full-color plates of artifacts unearthed dating from the Palaeolithic Age (around 500,00-10,000 years ago) through the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644AD).
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Technical Lecture No. 12: Progress and Problems in Korean Education. Education Division, Office of Technical Cooperation, October 21, 1958, Seoul Chamber of Commerce Building.

By: Goslin, Dr. Willard E.; Director, Peabody College Contract Group.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: ess2920

Quarto, paperbound (stapled self wrappers), 17 pp. Near-Fine with light edgewear.
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A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer Educator in China, America, and Japan. The Story of his Life and Work.

By: Griffis, William Elliot.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (September, 1902).:

Seller ID: 6598fd

Octavo, red illustrated cloth (hardcover), silver illus. to upper cover, gilt letters, tissue-protected frontis., 332 pp. Good+, with minor speckling to lower cover and spine. Illustrated. Contents: A Missionary Mother; In Monson - A Yankee Boyhood; School-Teaching - Grit and Grace; North and South -- Elms and Violets; Trade and the Gospel - A Call to China; Pioneer Educator in the Middle Kingdom; Under the British Flag; Professor Brown at Rome Academy; The Dutch Domine at Owasco Lake; A Pioneer in Woman's Higher Education; Ho for Japan!; Life in a Buddhist Temple at Kanagaa; All Things to...
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A German Scholar in the East: Travel Scenes and Reflections. Translated by Daisie Rommel. With 21 Illustrations from the Author's Photographs.

By: Hackmann, H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1914. First Edition.:

Seller ID: mfs10

Octavo, professionally rebound in mauve cloth with original upper cover preserved, xi + 223 pp. Near-Fine, with original (preserved) upper cover showing heavy signs of wear. Contents: From the White-Walled City; Twilight Hours on the Siberian Railway; A Drive in a Troika; From the World Apart; The Seat of the Hutuktu; Crossing the Gobi Desert; The Spiritual and Religious Side of the Mongols; Old Friends with New Faces; The Inward Life; Springtime in the Land of China; A Rising Metropolis in the East; In the Heart of China; The Wutaishan; Sketches by the Way; Thoughts by the Wayside; The Old...
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Men & Gods in Mongolia (Zayagan). Translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. With 57 Illustrations and a Map.

By: Haslund, Henning.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1935. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51196bd

Octavo, purple buckram (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, uncut, xvi + 358 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner bookplate and light foxing to edges and endpapers; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Here are further adventures in Mongolia even more exciting than those made famous in the author's Tents in Mongolia -- (one of the best-reviewed books of last year, a National Best-Seller and considered by the book-trade to be one of the most beautiful travel books of all time. Haslund hears of a mysterious Mongolian tribe, the T...
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Category: Asian History