Hardcover. Washington, 1st, November 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black boards, illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket has a touch of moisture damage to back. Otherwise clean inside and out.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown, 1st edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 570 pages, some b&w photographs. Foxing to top edge, but otherwise very tight and clean.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Sepia illustrations by author throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on blue on spine and gilt title on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, has some tanning from age, covered in protective plastic. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.
Softcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University, 1977, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Some fading and wear on cover. Small price stickers on front cover. Unidentified signature on front cover.
Hardcover. Seoul, Hongik University Ceramics Research Institute, 1st?, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Primary text in Korean? - 6 pages of text in English. Hardcover. Full color photographs and black & white drawings. Rear cover slightly bowed due to binding error. Dust jacket with sun fade along top 3" of rear, and to title on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 644 pages, b&w photographs, illustrated end paper. Dust jacket in protective mylar. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Asia Society, in association with J. Weatherhill, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Geneva, Skira , Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. Dust jacket with wear along edges, darkening along spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Geneva, SKIRA, Reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 217 pages. Tipped-in, color plates throughout. Chipping to dust jacket covers. Some tanning/staining to rear cover and flaps. Light scratches on rear cover. Minor tape repairs to back of covers. Dust jacket now protected by clear plastic. Light foxing to all edges. Good, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A recreation of the complex and and now forgotten world of cosmological and geographical learning within which Columbus planned his voyage to Asia. Many color illustrations and maps throughout. Slant to spine; binding unaffected. Light soiling to top edge text block. Mild bumping to corners, light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 377 pages. 173 illustrations, with 54 tipped-in colorplates. Large, heavy folio. Edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with chip missing from lower edge of front cover, and small strip missing from rear cover. Faint tanning to pages. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Asia Center, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge, else like new.
Softcover. Athens, OUSF, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages plus ads. Magazine format. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Library date stamp at top right corner of index page. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Middleburg NY, privately printed, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf with his stamp on the same page. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
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
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
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
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
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