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. Tokyo, NY, Japan Publications, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A memoir of a physicist's wife at Los Alamos during the development of the A-Bomb. Black & white photos. 266 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Record # 61159
Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, Cocked spine, old price-sticker to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453733
Softcover. US, Henry Holt & Co (P), 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 534 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrapper and light tanning to pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462338
Hardcover. Berkely, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 760 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a clean knife cut through the center front, which has been closed with tape. That cut went cleanly through, and marked the red cloth covers underneath. Despite this one very shallow scar, the covers are generally in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright, and the binding is solid. This book is a complete translation of an ancient Chinese medical classic, the Nan-ching, combined with selected commentaries by Chinese and Japanese authors. The Nan-ching was compiled in China during the first century C.E., marking both an apex and a conclusion to the initial developmental stages of Chinese medicine. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34042
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
Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454161
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 4th printing, 2008-03-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 615 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463923
Hardcover. Honolulu, HI, East-West Center Press, 1st thus, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 56 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition after repairs, due to multiple open and closed tears, with light staining. Brown cloth cover boards with embossed black Japanese text are significantly warped, but are otherwise in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color illustrations throughout. This book presents Hiroshige's renowned woodblock prints of 53 small stations along the Tokaido, the national highway connecting Tokyo with Kyoto. It is a beautiful retrospective of Utagawa Hiroshige's artistry. Clean copy. Record # 34319
Hardcover. NY, Weatherhill, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing, but is still in good condition overall. Gray paper cover boards with a black cloth spine are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. While drawing freely from personal experiences, literature and popular sources, he also turns to such traditional materials as medieval Japanese social and legal documents, the Talmud, and the Torah in his search for the forces that have shaped the Japanese and the Jew as we know them today. Some of the previous owner's notes and musings are present in black pen on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34507
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 3rd Print, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 479 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a price sticker scar on the front, which interferes with the end of the author's last name. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. To a place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancee back in Holland. Clean copy. Record # 33825
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 6th Print, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 479 pages, hardcover. Light bumping to corners and front of dust jacket. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. To a place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancee back in Holland. Clean copy. Record # 33824
Hardcover. Geneva / NY, SKIRA / Crown Publishers, Inc., Reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, hardcover. Covers have some minor soiling. Interior pages are clean and bright. Previous owner's label pasted on front end page. Tipped-in, gorgeous full color plates throughout. This book explores the history and development of Japanese painting, covering a broad timeline. This is an oversize book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 33874
Hardcover. New York , McGraw-Hill Book Company, reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 649 pges, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket worn with light soil. Light foxing to edges. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Record # 809781
Softcover. Winchester VA, Red Moon Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite some minor wrinkling near the top of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright, and the binding is also in good shape. This copy is a 1st printing, 1 of only 1,000 copies. Collection features 44 haibun and 20 haiga, and includes a historical overview of the genre in English through 1999. Previous owner highlighted a small portion of the Historical Preface, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33654
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