Softcover. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Color and b/w photographs throughout. slight fraying to top spine, bumping to edges and corners of covers. Light scratching to back cover. Clean and bright inside.
Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages, b&w illustrations. Sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, illustrated in color and b&w with 600 plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Facts on File, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color/ black and white pictures throughout.
Paperback. Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages, paperback. Part of the Smithsonian Series, "Photographers at Work." Black-and-white panoramic photography of far eastern locales. Light edgewear, rubbing, and fading to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Paperback. Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages, paperback. Part of the Smithsonian Series, "Photographers at Work." Black-and-white panoramic photography of far eastern locales. Light edgewear and fading to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Paperback. New York, Doubleday, 1st wraps, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Paperback. Black & white illustrations by Earl Thollander. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.
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."
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout, including frontispiece. Former library book with appropriate stamps/markings, although no labeling on spine. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Spine has some fraying, but binding is good. Some light tanning to pages from age.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, Publishers, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 358 pages. Maroon cloth. Light wear to dust jacket with slight soiling to rear cover. Faint foxing to top edge, else a very net, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's Publishers, 1st, 1923, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Fair, 288 pages, hardcover. A look at the architecture and landscapes of pre-industrialized China. Cloth boards with front panel gilt titling intact. Fading to spine titling. Bowing to front panel. Bumping and fraying to corners and spine. Gutter cracked. Preliminary pages present but detached. Age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Many black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. A scarce copy.
hardcover. North Digthon MA, JG Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs and illustrations by various artists throughout. Includes appendix of pirate terms.
NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy in dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover. French flaps, unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition, clean inside and out. Published to accompany traveling exhibition March 22, 1987-April 10, 1988.
Softcover. New York, NY, Viking Penguin, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Red boards with red metallic titles to ivory cloth spine. Light foxing to edges. Crisp, clean & unmarked dust jacket. Clean & unmarked pages throughout.
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.