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100 Years Ago: A Picture-Story of Hong Kong in 1870


Warner, John, Wucius Wong

Softcover. Hong Kong, Urban Council, 8th printing, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. English text by John Warner. Translation into Chinese by Wucius Wong. Bilingual edition. Black-and-white photos throughout. Light sun-fade to spine. Very minor soiling on covers. Small crease on spine. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856358


Price: $15.00 

 

Air War in Indochina, The


Littauer, Raphael & Norman Uphoff

Softcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, Revised ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 854821


Price: $25.00 

 

Eyes of Asia, The


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st US, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth boards. Four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army during World War I. Mild rubbing to boards, corners slightly bumped. Light bumping to spine upper edge. Fading to label on spine. Age toning to text block edges. Cracked hinge on half title page. Unmarked. A clean and bright copy.

Record # 952140


Price: $31.00 

 

Fragrant Harbour: Early Photographs of Hong Kong


Warner, John

Hardcover. Hong Kong , John Warner Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout, with two pages of b&w maps. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Gilt titles on spine. Faint odor, foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857407


Price: $25.00 

 

Invincible Warrior: A Pictorial Biography of Morihei Ueshiba, The Founder of Aikido


Stevens, John

Hardcover. Boston, Shambhala, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Blue boards, dark blue cloth binding with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807348


Price: $20.00 

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

 

Royal Photograph Gallery


Ridpath, John Clark (Introduction)

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.

Record # 31726


Price: $50.00 

 

Russia and Japan, and a Complete History of the War in the Far East


Unger, Frederic William

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.

Record # 854516


Price: $25.00 

 

Studio: Asia: A Famous Artist-Correspondent Reports on the Korean War and the Turbulent East.


Groth, John, Illust. by: John Groth

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.

Record # 32156


Price: $19.00 

 

Studio: Asia


Groth, John

Hardcover. Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout by the author. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on illustrated front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with small cut trough middle of front cover.

Record # 856993


Price: $38.00 

 

Terracotta Warriors and Horses at the Tomb of Qin Shi Huang


Hongik University Ceramics Research Institute

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.

Record # 612224


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

Tibetan Carpet, The


Denwood, Philip

Hardcover. Warminster UK, Aris and Phillips Ltd., reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, tipped-in color frontispiece. Terra-cotta cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Small bump to top corner, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405874


Price: $63.00 

 

To Bear Any Burden - The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians


Santoli, Al

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105971


Price: $8.00 

Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam WarMo
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Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War


Mo

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.

Record # 471790


Price: $23.00 

Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR by: Khalid, Adeeb
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Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR by: Khalid, Adeeb

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
Price: $25.00 

Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoir by: Kozhina, Elena Fedorovna
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Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoir by: 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: $12.00 

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