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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.