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Coesistenza e rivoluzione - Documenti della disputa cino-sovietica


Calzini, Paolo & Enrica Collotti Pischel

Softcover. Italy, Einaudi, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Presumed 1st paperback. 494 p. Cover and edges a little shop worn and has a small bump to the front edge but still a very good copy, text block clean and tight. Italian language.

Record # 400972


Price: $15.00 

 

Collection of Chinese Ethnological Studies: A Dream of Ethnic Unity, Equality and Prosperity


Chen, Yong-ling

Hardcover. Beijing China, Central University of Nationalities, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages with glazed boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 403603


Price: $30.00 

Confucianism and Human RightsDe Bary (Editor), Wm. Theodore/Tu Weiming
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Confucianism and Human Rights


De Bary (Editor), Wm. Theodore/Tu Weiming

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket designed by Chang Jae Lee, light shelf wear to dj. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750215


Price: $19.00 

 

Devil Soldier, The - The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the Most Honored and Controversial American in Chinese History


Carr, Caleb

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 58107


Price: $50.00 

 

Discovering History in China


Cohen, Paul A.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Foxing to top edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454732


Price: $50.00 

 

Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China


Seagrave, Sterling

Hardcover. New York, 1st, May 5, 1992, Book: Very Good, 601 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to edges and covers of pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 451710


Price: $18.00 

 

Empire of the Steppes, The: A History of Central Asia


Grousset, Rene

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press , 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 687 pages,end paper map, map illustrations.Translated by Naomi Walford. Ink marking to about 25 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 611010


Price: $19.00 

 

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China


Chang, Jung

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st U.S.A., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In nearly new condition. In this ground-breaking biography, Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumenal obstacles to change China.

Record # 32157


Price: $15.00 

 

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Dowager Who Launched Modern China


Chang, Jung

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story the most important woman in Chinese history; who ruled for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight fading to dust jacket spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951949


Price: $25.00 

 

Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories From the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, The


Jo-hsi, Chen

Bloomington, Indiana Univ., 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Dust jacket with spine fade.

Record # 65901


Price: $19.00 

 

Fall of Hong Kong, The: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal


Roberti, Mark

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Very good dust jacket with minor shelf wear.

Record # 803773


Price: $10.00 

 

Fall of Imperial China, The


Wakeman, Jr., Frederic

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 3rd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 54734


Price: $18.00 

 

First Emperor, The: China's Terracotta Army


Portal, Jane (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press/British Museum Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, extremely good condition. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 9/13/07-4/6/08. The tomb of the first emperor of China, which the Terracotta Warriors protect, has become the most important ongoing excavation in China and possibly the world.

Record # 32302


Price: $31.00 

 

Fragrant Harbour: Early Photographs of Hong Kong


Warner, John

Hardcover. Hong Kong , John Warner Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout, with two pages of b&w maps. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Gilt titles on spine. Faint odor, foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857407


Price: $25.00 

 

Generation of Giants - The Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty


Dunne, George H.

Notre Dame, Ind., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages.

Record # 58496


Price: $15.00 

 

George Washington's Chinaware


Detweiler, Susan Gray & Christine Meadows

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hard cover with dust jacket in near fine state. 161 illustrations, 55 plates in full color, 244 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index.

Record # 804607


Price: $26.00 

Government and Politics of Hong Kong, The: With Updated Additions for the mid-1990sMiners, Norman
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Government and Politics of Hong Kong, The: With Updated Additions for the mid-1990s


Miners, Norman

Softcover. Oxford UK , Oxford University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Illustrated end papers. Some rubbing to corners, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468268


Price: $15.00 

 

Guardians of the Treasure House: How a Group of Individuals Helped Turn a Rough-Edged Factory Town into One of the Richest Cities on Earth


Vittachi, Nury

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Society of Accountants, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A financial history of Hong Kong from the early 1970s through 1998. Published to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants.

Record # 402956


Price: $50.00 

 

Head of the Dragon, The


Clayre, Alasdair

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 281 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Previous owner's small sticker to front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 302198


Price: $18.00 

Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in AsiaHerzstein, Robert E.
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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia


Herzstein, Robert E.

Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, July 18, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages, b&w photographs. Remainder mark on top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454440


Price: $18.00 

Hindus in the Himalayas Berreman, Gerald D.
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Hindus in the Himalayas


Berreman, Gerald D.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some wear to edges of spine, residue on the cover, blemish on spine, dent in lower edge of front cover.

Record # 2230618


Price: $19.00 

 

Historians' History of the World - Volume XXIV - Poland, The Balkans, Turkey, Minor Eastern States, China, Japan


Williams, LL.D., Henry Smith

Hardcover. New York, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. Hardcover. Volume XXIV only. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613136


Price: $63.00 

 

History of the Chinese Secret Service, A


Deacon, Richard

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 523 pages, hardcover. Original orange cloth, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Heavily researched history of espionage in China, from the past to modern times. Fading, soiling, and bumping to spine. Age-soiling and rubbing to text block. Edgewear, light soiling, and rubbing to boards. Mild warp to front panel. Binding slightly precarious. Unmarked. A nice reading copy.

Record # 951412


Price: $31.00 

 

Hongkong: The Island Between


Rand McNally, Christopher

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Patterned purple boards, no dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607676


Price: $12.00 


  
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