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Lost Cities of Asia: Ceylon, Pagan, Angkor


Swaan, Wim

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856747


Price: $19.00 

 

Malaya-Gaya Hidup Antara 1900-1930: Malaya-Lifestyles 1900-1930 (Malasian text)


Ng (Rtd.), Major David , Mazaffar D.J. Tate

Softcover. Malasia, Petaling Jaya, 1st, 1989, 135 pages. Softcover. In Malaysian text with English translations. Sepia and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Some slight tanning to pages and edges, but otherwise very clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Using picture postcards, our authors seek to give us an idea of what life was like in Malaysia between 1900 and 1930.

Record # 31788


Price: $44.00 

 

Mao Against Khrushchev - A Short History of the Sino-Soviet Conflict


Floyd, David

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 57759


Price: $18.00 

Matter of Rats, A: A Short Biography of Patna Kumar , Amitava
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Matter of Rats, A: A Short Biography of Patna


Kumar , Amitava

Hardcover. Durham NC , Duke University Press , 1st , 2014 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 116 pages. Light edge wear to bottom edge, otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857339


Price: $19.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIX January - June 1921 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes fold-out of a square-rigged sailing ship in tinted color: The Argosy of Geography, a color folding map of The New Asia (28 x 36"), and a Map of Europe with the new boundaries post-WW1. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415546


Price: $50.00 

 

Night of Purnama, The


Mathews, Anna

Softcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Wrapper has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Edges also have some tanning, pages clean. Binding tight. The tale of the six months of eruption of Gunung Agung, Bali's long-extinct volcano, in 1963. Authors give first-hand account.

Record # 31665


Price: $31.00 

 

Old Hong Kong - Volume One 1860-1900


Wiltshire, Trea(Ed.)

Hardcover. Hong Kong, FormAsia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Historical photos reproduced in sepia tone. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 176543


Price: $42.00 

 

On Wings of Eagles: The Plight, Exodus, and Homecoming of Oriental Jewry


Schechtman, Joseph B.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Some agewear to cover boards at edges (see image). Some tanning to edges from age. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape for its age. Starting in 1948 over half a million Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Aden, Syria, Egypt, Libya to their homeland of Israel voluntarily relocated. This history of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East describes in detail their mass exodus, how it was done and the impact on the countries left behind.

Record # 32247


Price: $19.00 

 

Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka


McGowan, William

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spine slightly slanted, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458774


Price: $25.00 

 

Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake


Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."

Record # 32165


Price: $25.00 

Poetics of Gardens, TheMoore, Charles W.
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Poetics of Gardens, The


Moore, Charles W.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA , The MIT Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468460


Price: $44.00 

Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive HistoryHefner, Robert W.
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Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive History


Hefner, Robert W.

Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, May 12, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, b&w photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454582


Price: $12.00 

 

Red Randall on New Guinea


Bowen, R. Sidney

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Tinting to pages. Remainder spray to top edge. Dust jacket has some spotting on front flap and stamps to underside. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855719


Price: $19.00 

 

Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia


Ishwaran, K.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1st, 1976, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages, edited by Bardwell L. Smith, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Light wear to dust jacket; overall, book in great condition.

Record # 803271


Price: $19.00 

Religion and Societies: Asia and the Middle East Carlo Caldarola (ed.)
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Religion and Societies: Asia and the Middle East


Carlo Caldarola (ed.)

Hardcover. Berlin, Mouton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 696 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230609


Price: $25.00 

 

Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function


Ekvall, Robert B.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Light pencil underlining throughout. Some slight tanning to pages and light foxing to edges. Binding good. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear (see images). Ekvall's many years in Tibet and his command of its language eminently qualify him to recapture the essence of this religion-centered country.

Record # 33459


Price: $19.00 

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold WarMandler, Peter
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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War


Mandler, Peter

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230580


Price: $19.00 

 

Revolt in Tibet, The


Morris, Frank

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 223 pages. Water marks to front and back boards. Tinting around pages. Tinting to end papers. Several stamps on back side of dust jacket. Dust jacket is also tinting. Tight copy.

Record # 855718


Price: $15.00 

 

River's Tale, The: A Year on the Mekong


Gargan, Edward A.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A deeply informed personal chronicle of a remarkable journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China.

Record # 32046


Price: $19.00 

 

Royal Ceremonies for the Rattanakosin Bicentennial


Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary to Commemorate the Rattanakosin Bicentennial

Hardcover. Thailand, Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary to Commemorate the Rattanakosin Bicentennial, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paginated in Thai, printed in Thai and English. Front cover illustrated in full color, gold spine with white embossed titles, gilt titles to front, red glossy textured endpapers, profusely illustrated with gorgeous full-color photographs, laid-in Thai insert. Previous owner's short inscription to preface page printed in Thai, slight edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; a lovely copy in great condition.

Record # 807293


Price: $40.00 

 

Royal Photograph Gallery


Ridpath, John Clark (Introduction)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Manufacturers Book Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front (slightly faded). A faint moisture stain to front cover but no warping. A bump or two to edges of covers and a touch of fraying to corners. Binding tight, spine straight. Some tanning from age to edges and pages. Incredible old photographs of the royalty of the world in the mid 1800's. In amazing shape for its age.

Record # 31726


Price: $50.00 

 

Russia and Japan, and a Complete History of the War in the Far East


Unger, Frederic William

Hardcover. W. E. Scull, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages, profusely illustrated with half-tone engravings and artists' drawings throughout, illustrated cover on red cloth board. previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, light corner and edge wear, minor foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854516


Price: $25.00 

 

Russia and Nationalism in Central Asia: The Case of Tadzhikistan


Rakowska-Harmstone, Teresa

Hardcover. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages. Light soiling on rear dust jacket cover. Dust jacket price clipped. Small crease on top edge of front dust jacket flap. Minor tanning along edges of rear dust jacket flap. Slight foxing on top edge. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856231


Price: $23.00 

 

Shanghai Conspiracy: The Sorge Spy Ring


Willoughby, Charles A.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. B&W illustrations. Missing dust jacket. Gilt title to spine with slight wear. Slight wear to corners and slight foxing to all edges. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850102


Price: $15.00 


  
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