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197347171Hong Kong: Wing Tai Zhang Printing CW 1973. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Hong Kong: Wing Tai Zhang Printing CW 1973. Numerous b/w and full color illustrations. 209 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. All edges dyed red. Spine heel slightly bumped. Front board stained on bottom. Front and back board slightly bowed. Bottom edge lightly stained. Gilt lettering on front board and spine. Light sunning on top edge. Dust jacket has wear on top edge and light staining on inside of top edge. Very good/Very good. Wing Tai Zhang Printing CW hardcover books
1970016685Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh Ltd 1970. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vi 55 pages of text. Original blue hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. The original dustjacket is moderately sunned on the spine with a tiny chip a few small tears and creases and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by Y. T. Kwong. The text is clean and unmarked. Kelly & Walsh Ltd Hardcover books
1970049228Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh 1970. With an introduction by Lee Yim. x 86p. b/w illus. original red cloth. Kelly & Walsh unknown books
1981144185Hong Kong: University Book Store 1981. 2nd Reprint of 2nd edition. Softcover. VG- Spine has tanned slightly; interior is good; one mark from previous library owner. White & red figured wraps French flaps 134 pp. few BW illus. Text is in English and Chinese. "This is probably the first time that a collection of Chinese couplets has been translated and published." intro 200 such couplets appear here in both languages. Translated and annotated by T. C. Lai with an introduction by Ma Meng. Scarce. University Book Store paperback books
197891097Hong Kong:: Hong Kong Book Centre. Near Fine. 1978. Paperback. B0006DXTQI . Black and white illustrations. First edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Hong Kong Book Centre, paperback books
1960244899Hong Kong: University Book Store 1960. viii 191p. stiff wraps very good hardcover in lightly worn dustjacket. Chinese chengyu and other sayings with English translations. University Book Store unknown books
1961223397Hong Kong: University Book Store 1961. vii 191p. stiff wraps very good second printing. Chinese chengyu and other sayings with English translations. University Book Store unknown books
1971148814Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh Ltd 1971. xiv 151p. numerous b&w illustrations introduction foreword and glossary first edition in red cloth and gilt extremities a little worn with slightly turned corner-tips an else nice clean copy in a badly chipped edgeworn dust jacket. Includes reproductions of the artworks and poems in English translation. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd unknown books
1985038965New York: Schocken Books 1985. 1st American Edition. With an essay on modern Chinese painting: tradition and innovations by Wucius Wong. 239 1p. b/w illus. original brown cloth. Schocken Books unknown books
198469930Hong Kong: Oxford University Press 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1973253003Kowloon / Hong Kong: Swindon Book Company 1973. Hardcover. xi 209 pages most every page shows rubricated seals profusely illustrated with b&w in-text images and plates on inserted stock several color reproductions slightly toned paperstock casebound hardcover in dust jacket. Dj is rather edgeworn but intact. Rear cover and dj have been exposed to damp; this shows up in book itself as mildly rippled pastedowns and in dj as wavy staining to rear panel. In all other respects a good copy: sound and otherwise clean and unmarked. Swindon Book Company hardcover books
1973244743Seattle: University of Washington Press 1973. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Ch'i Pai Shih. Illustrated throughout some in color. 209 pages. 8vo red boards d.w. Seattle: University of Washington Press 1973. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> First book in the English language to tell the story of Ch'i Pai Shih sometimes called China's Picasso.<br/><br/> University of Washington Press unknown books
1969220505Hong Kong: University Book Store 1969. xiii 134p. very good hardcover in a worn dustjacket with chips at spine ends. Chinese couplets with English translations. University Book Store unknown books
WELLER9780062229212New. New book. unknown books
2001115208New York: HarperCollins Children's Books 2001. First edition of this moving book of verse detailing the story of a young Vietnamese girl who is forced to flee Vietnam before the fall of Saigon. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Zdenko Basie and Manuel Sumberac. Jacket photograph by Sloane Bosniak. "In this poignant funny and unforgettable novel Thanhha Lai shares in verse how her family escaped Vietnam before the fall of Saigon. American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a ten-year-old girl - a protagonist so strong loving and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya. This tenderly told tale transports readers to the time immediately after the Vietnam War and also opens hearts to newcomers displaced by war today" Mitali Perkins. HarperCollins Children's Books hardcover books
199173308Stanford California: Stanford University Press 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. This is the first dispassionate full-scale account of the origins dynamics and aftermath of a pivotal and much-misunderstood even in modern Chinese history - the violent uprising against the Kuomintang KMT in Taiwan in 1947 which began with an incident in Taipei and quickly spread to other cities throughout the island." Octavo: 279 p. with textual photographs tables and maps. Original black cloth binding with silver titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1824WRCAM26137New York 1824. Folding map 51 x 51 inches Backed on linen as issued. Significant foxing. Original portfolio of boards with roan spine expertly rebacked. In a cloth clamshell box leather label. Styled "second edition." Handsome large- scale early map of New York State and part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Canada. Boundaries outlined in color with notes on roads forts ironworks and Indian villages. Lay was one of the most important cartographers working in New York and Pennsylvania at the time. hardcover books
1979159805Washington: University Press of America 1979. 208p. 363-462p. very good hardcover reprint of two early 20th century studies. Japan studies: Studies in Japanese law and government. University Press of America unknown books
32287Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY 1924. 303 pages clothbound no jacket very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1996287372West Group 1996. First. paperback. very good. 8vo pr. wrs. N.p.: West Group 1996. Very good<br/><br/> West Group unknown books
184358240Albany: published by George Jones Museum Building. Burgess and Stringer and M.Y. Beach New York. Redding and Co. Boston: G.B. Zeiber i.e. Zieber Philadelphia. Wm. Taylor Baltimore 1843. 8vo pp. iv 116; original printed green wrappers; neatly rebacked; small piece missing from the front of the front wrapper else very good. Printed by Joel Munsell Albany. This is the first separate publication by Squire who became a prominent archaeologist and a prolific author. Lust citing the London edition of the same year which was published without the Squire contribution: "Good deal of observation firm believer in the superiority of "Graeco-Hebraic" civilization for a free opium market." Lust 48; Cordier Sinica 77. <br/><br/> published by George Jones, Museum Building. Burgess and Stringer, and M.Y. Beach, New York. Redding and Co. Boston: G.B. Zeiber unknown books
191258574Warsaw MO: Warsaw Times 1912. First edition thus Lay's contribution was first published in 1876. 8vo. 2 134 pp. Illustrated. Howes L-157 for the earlier publication. Eberstadt 110 183 for the earlier edition: "Discovery and explorations Indians first settlement townships and early courts Warsaw Slicker War Kansas War etc." OCLC locates seven copies of this edition Pomona Public Iowa State Historical Society Kansas City Public Springfield County Public State Historical Society of Missouri Truman State Lubbock Public. Poor quality paper browned but a very good copy. Later black-stamped green cloth. #5887. <br/><br/> Warsaw Times hardcover books
2006108256Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Galleries Inc 2006. Softcover. VG. Black illus. wraps with white lettering; unpaginated with numerous color illustrations. An auction catalogue for the sale held June 3 and 4 2006. Cincinnati Art Galleries, Inc paperback books
196945692Mobile: National Society of the Colonial Dames 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. ix 417pp. Light foxing to prelims some superficial damage to boards else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth. <br/><br/> National Society of the Colonial Dames hardcover books
199241992Point Reyes Station: Floating Island 1992. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Omission slip laid in. Point Reyes Station: Floating Island, unknown books
