Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Healing Tao Books, Revised Edition, 1st Print, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages plus The International Healing Tao System Catalog, in soft cover. Blue covers are lightly bumped, but still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book details an ancient Taoist system for detoxifying and rejuvenating the internal organs. Master Chia teaches readers how to avoid absorbing negative energies from others and take full charge of their health through the self-healing techniques of Chi Nei Tsang. Previous owner's inscription is present on the title page in blue pen, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34034
Softcover. Singapore, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages, soft cover. Exterior corners have some minor wear, interior binding and pages are in very good condition. 'Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775) is one of Japan's most unusual and renowned haiku poets, and this volume, the first major translation of her work in English, contains over 100 haiku, reproduced in Japanese script, Romaji, and in English. Chiyo-ni was one of the very few great female poets from an age when haiku was dominated by men. Her verses embody Zen-like simplicity and female sensuality, and reflect her life as a Buddhist nun, painter and poet who lived a life of supreme independence and aesthetic sensibility.' B&W illustrations throughout. Previous owner marked copy with occasional interior green highlighting, underlining, and front end page inscription. Record # 33603
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd Pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some mild discoloration, but are otherwise in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book collects important Chinese writings about painting, from the earliest examples through the fourteenth century, allowing us to look at the art of this rich era as it was seen and understood in the artists' own times. Clean copy. Record # 34123
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt lettering. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Very good color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 40244
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, pictorial boards, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book describes the fighting techniques of the armies of East Asia, from the age of the Mongol expansion in the thirteenth century to the Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century. Contains sections on the roles of infantry, mounted warfare, command and control, siege warfare, and naval warfare. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34526
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Riveting memoir, a triumph of hope over despair. Black and white photographs. Nice copy. Record # 803012
Honolulu, East-West Center Press, 2nd, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 551 pages Ex-lib with light stamping, stickers on dust jacket spine, light residue to rear end papers. Record # 66660
Paperback. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Root-Room for Delight' by Vrinda Kumble, 'Roosevelt Grady and the Children of Asia' by Louisa R. Shotwell, 'Speaking to the Imagination' by Samuel French Morse, 'The Codex Pithoeanus of Phaedrus' by F.B. Adams, Jr., and more. Light marking or library stamp/subscription label on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright. Record # 604723
Hardcover. US, Timber Press, 1st, 2005-05-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462871
Hardcover. Seoul, Korea, Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, in conjuction with Taewon Publishing Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 396 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is significantly ripped and worn. Covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a brisk narrative based on the traditional Korean interpretation of history, packed with anecdotes, and enlivened by perceptive notes about folklore and customs. James Scarth Gale (1863-1937) was a Canadian missionary and a pioneer scholar. He was a prolific writer, an industrious translator, and a major lexicographer. Previous owner signed their name on the inside front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33717
Softcover. Korea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages, 99 b&w plates. Paper covers with light wear, top and bottom of spine with small chunks gone. Still, a sound copy. Record # 804936
Hardcover. Toronto, Ontario, Macmillan Canada, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red paper covers with gilt titles, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Pages have a deckled edge. Binding is solid. This book is the biography of billionaire Li Ka-shing, the ultimate Hong Kong rags-to-riches success story. The book follows his life, from his poor family's flight from the Japanese to Hong Kong in 1940, to his famous takeover of the British hong Hutchison Whampoa in 1979, and expansion of his business empire to become one of the ten richest people in the world. Clean copy. Record # 34129
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 415 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with significant bumping to the top edge. Gray cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this book, Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals--war, economic collapse, famine--transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. Previous owner lightly marked a couple interior pages in pencil throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34140
Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art/Doubleday, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Clean, very good softcover. Record # 407355
Hardcover. US, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 2000-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462700
Softcover. London, UK, Routledge, 1st Paperback Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book describes the attitudes, aspirations and frustrations of key players in Indonesian politics as they struggled to shape the future. It focuses on the role of political Islam, and shows that the state has been remarkably successful in maintaining secular political institutions in a predominantly Muslim society. Clean copy. Record # 34120
Softcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 2nd Pr., 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 783 pages, soft cover. Covers have edge wear and rubbing, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is primarily a study of the administrative apparatus which helped the emperors to assure obedience and forestall rebellions, but it is also an extended study of Chinese society in the nineteenth century. Clean copy. Record # 34480
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801167
Softcover. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial, stapled wrappers. Exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum. 28 pp., b/w illustrations. Documents five basic categories: Asiatic; Ancient Near East and Classic; Western Art; 20th Century & Northwest Art; and Tribal Arts. Clean, tight copy. Record # 805908
hardcover. London, I.B.Tauris, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469627
Hardcover. New York, 6th printing, April 20, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light wear and scratching to dust jacket, slight damp-stain to lower edge of the first few pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 457504
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