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Barbarians & Mandarins - Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China


Cameron, Nigel

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 443 pages.

Record # 58494


Price: $15.00 

 

Century of Travels in China, A - Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s


Kerr (Editors), Douglas/Julia Kuehn

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1st Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Full color & black & white illustrations following page 74. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 750231


Price: $31.00 

 

China Safari: An American Explorer in the Forbidden Pamirs


Lee, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York , Sporting World Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated with a special section of color photographs by the author. 269 pages. Red cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, no noticeable wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853034


Price: $50.00 

 

China: Empire of Living Symbols


Lindqvist, Cecilia

Hardcover. US, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1991-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 423 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light sunning to dust jacket with slight tear to rear cover and tape-repair top spine.

Record # 464214


Price: $25.00 

 

Chinese Journey: A Remarkable Picture, in Photographs and Words, of China as it Really is Today


Kessle, Gun (Photography), Jan Myrdal (Text)

Hardcover. New York, NY, Pantheon Books/Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, good condition. Cover boards bound in red cloth, Front cover board has black trim along right edge, gilt title on spine and gilt Chinese characters on front cover. Front flyleaf is almost completely detached from gutter. Binding tight, spine straight. A beautiful old book, beautifully photo-illustrated, wonderful look at China in the mid-twentieth century.

Record # 32158


Price: $25.00 

 

City of Light, The


D'Ancona, Jacob and David Selbourne

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. & ed. by David Selbourne

Record # 53729


Price: $30.00 

 

Empire's End: A History of the Far East From High Colonialism to Hong Kong


Keay, John

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


Price: $8.00 

 

Farthing Candle, The


Farquharson, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Black fabric covers. Author photo glued to page opposite title page and original cover from dust jacket partially glued to title page. Spine slightly cocked. Mostly clean inside with a touch of foxing to endpapers and edges. Original owner inscription on front endpaper dated 1955, and personalized ink stamp on top edge. In very good shape considering age.

Record # 30650


Price: $19.00 

 

Head of the Dragon, The


Clayre, Alasdair

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 281 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Previous owner's small sticker to front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 302198


Price: $18.00 

 

Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God


Taylor, Dr & Mrs Howard

Hardcover. London, China Inland Mission, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 640 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light wear and soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856795


Price: $38.00 

 

In the People's Republic - An American Firsthand View of Living and working in China.


Schell, Orville

NY, Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 269 pages. Dust jacket with spine fade otherwise vg/vg

Record # 200123


Price: $18.00 

 

Journey Through China


Roy, Jules

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Francis Price. 299 pages. Closed tear to dj.

Record # 58500


Price: $15.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. LVIII July - December 1930 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415560


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLIII January-June 1923 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, 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. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415529


Price: $44.00 

 

Quest for Eternity, The: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China


Caroselli, Susan L.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover. French flaps, unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition, clean inside and out. Published to accompany traveling exhibition March 22, 1987-April 10, 1988.

Record # 30648


Price: $13.00 

 

River's Tale, The: A Year on the Mekong


Gargan, Edward A.

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.

Record # 32046


Price: $19.00 

 

Search for a Vanishing Beijing, The: A Guide to China's Capital Through the Ages


Aldrich, M.A.

Hardcover. Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong University Press, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Very clean copy, looks nearly new. Weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China.

Record # 399


Price: $50.00 

 

Silk Road, The: La Ruta de la Seda


Meniconzi, Alessandra (Photography), Bertram Job (Text)

Hardcover. Berlin, Germany, Feierabend, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. In beautiful condition. Looks barely read and nearly new. Photo essays of the ancient trade routes from the Mediterranean to China.

Record # 31899


Price: $50.00 

 

Visit to India, China and Japan, in the Year 1853, A


Taylor, Bayard

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Ex-Library copy with stamp at bottom of half title page; Bookplate on inside front cover. Front endpaper is loose from book. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Card envelope has been gently removed from rear inside cover. Pages 305/306 and 307/308 missing bits of paper at top corner - no lost text. Half leather spine and corners over Marbled boards. Light fade and wear to spine. Spine titles in gilt. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613220


Price: $100.00 

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