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Burmese Family


Khaing, Mi Mi

Bloomington, Indiana Univeraity Press, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Black & white sketches. Dust jacket is soiled and chipping at edges.

Record # 204409


Price: $18.00 

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the CaucasusKaplan, Robert D.

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus


Kaplan, Robert D.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd printing, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471808


Price: $15.00 

 

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey


Thwe, Pascal Khoo

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Riveting memoir, a triumph of hope over despair. Black and white photographs. Nice copy.

Record # 803012


Price: $8.00 

 

Journey to Java


Nicolson, Harold

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Heavy wear and creases, rubbing, fraying and small tears on dust jacket. Eight half-tone plates.

Record # 2233682


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters From the Asiatic Station 1881-1883


Bunts, Frank Emory

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Alexander T. Bunts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Limited first edition copy. Minor fading on blue cloth cover. Faded sticker mark on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852334


Price: $35.00 

 

Naked Before the Mountain


Mazeaud, Pierre

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st English, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Translated by Geoffrey Sutton. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Green endpapers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in pen on front flyleaf. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light tanning and a few drops of soil to edges. Pages clean. In great shape. This book covers Mazeaud's mountaineering memories up to and covering the unfortunate and tragic 1971 Everest Expedition.

Record # 31754


Price: $44.00 

 

Night of Purnama, The


Mathews, Anna

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.

Record # 31665


Price: $31.00 

 

Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake


Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

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."

Record # 32165


Price: $25.00 

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold WarMandler, Peter

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War


Mandler, Peter

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.

Record # 2230580


Price: $19.00 

Sacred Horses: Memoirs of a Turkmen CowboyMaslow, Jonathan

Sacred Horses: Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy


Maslow, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468548


Price: $25.00 

Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoirKozhina, Elena Fedorovna

Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoir


Kozhina, Elena Fedorovna

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468991


Price: $10.00 

 

Through the Jungle of Death: A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma


Brookes, Stephen

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2001-04-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462670


Price: $13.00 

 

Wings from Burma to the Himalayas


Gordon, John W.

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.

Record # 407229


Price: $25.00 

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