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1944011757Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1944. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 107 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear and slight darkening of spine lettering. Unclipped dustjacket with slight darkening of spine one small tear and minor soiling and rubbing to extremities; protected in archival mylar. Lectures on the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation 1944. From the library of Theodore W. Schultz 1902-1998 winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with W. A. Lewis. Signed in ink on the title page "T. W. Schultz March 1944." Endpapers are map-illustrated. University of Chicago Press Hardcover books
1967137473New York: Avalon Books 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. Light hearted space opera about amoeba-like shape-shifting creatures from Saturn who plan to take control of a planetoid in the asteroid belt which is really the technologically advanced space ship of an ancient alien race and destroy Earth using its super weapons. A sequel to DESTINY'S ORBIT 1961. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some mild rubbing. #137473 Avalon Books unknown books
19961327391New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1996. Hardcover. Quarto xv 648 pages; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with orange print; DJ clean and bright; Boards in tan cloth with black print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; "Issued in conjunction with the exhibition . The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York March 19-May 19 1996 . "; Signed in ink by author Wen C. Fong on the half-title page; shelved front table. 1327391. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover books
1988163188New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG a clean tight crisp copy. Owner's name label on ffep art conservator; small price stickers on front flap. DJ not price-clipped. Black cloth gilt letters on spine. White dj with bw illustration and black lettering. Mylar cover. 310 pp. 281 BW illus. Explores this work of French and Baroque painter and engraver Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. With extensive narrative introduction. The illustrated catalogue raisonne addresses 281 pieces. An appendix of watermarks and a bibliography are included. Yale University Press hardcover books
1972148872Taiwan: Hua Hsia Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for Hong Kong release of the 1972 Taiwanese film here under the title "Deadly Fists." With an English language synopsis on one side. <br/><br/>A young woman is sent by her father to discover the secret of a martial artist's fighting style but falls in love with him instead. Meanwhile another woman seeks the same man to enact revenge for killing her father. <br/><br/>10.75 x 7.75 inches. About Fine. Hua Hsia Film unknown books
2013140940797New York: Vintage Books 2013. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. Uncorrected proof issued before the first edition. Signed by Tao Lin on the front free endpaper inscribed to former owner with a small bug drawing dated 1/20/13. viii 258 1 pp. Wraps. Very Good with a few faint stains to wraps light shelf wear. The author's third novel the inspiration of the 2018 film High Resolution. Vintage Books unknown books
1973231769San Francisco: Chinese Art Gallery 1973. 32p. slender paperback very good 8x11.5 inches. Inscribed on the front endpaper to Huang Keyi who was part of the San Francisco Chinatown art world. Short transverse tear to spine panel. Professor Lin also spelled Lim Tsing-Ai was director of the Chinese Art Gallery at 30 Waverly Place in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinese Art Gallery unknown books
186744456Mexico: Imprenta de M. Murgula 1867. First edition. Original stitched yellow paper wrappers. A very good copy wrappers faintly soiled with some minor wear at the corners. 151 pp. 1 pp. index. 8vo. On heart desease and anemia. OCLC show four copies: Univ. Texas at Austin BN Mexico Wellcome Lib. and Nat. Lib. of Medicine. One at auction in the last fifty years. Imprenta de M. Murgula unknown books
1898230687Roc Society 1898. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 223 pages of color plates. 4to blue cloth d.w.N.p. Institute of Fine Arts 1989. First Edition. Scarce. Fine.<br/><br/> Text in Chinese and English<br/><br/> Roc Society unknown books
2000400364New York: Simon & Schuster 2000. First edition inscribed by the author. A few minor light scuffs to dj generally clean and square. Quarto. Original grey cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Maya Lin on the half-title. Best known for creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. artist and architect Maya Lin opened her studio in 1987. This is her first book. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1996RBRACAM00TWCambridge University Press 1996. Very Good. Brand Peter. Cambridge History of Italian Literature. Pertile Lino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996. 701pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine with light bumping. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
199629601Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Trade paperbound volume of poems by the younng American Chinese poet. 175 pp. Very good or better copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Lin to a fellow poet on the title page. Uncommon signature. Sun & Moon Press paperback books
1960144439France: Mondex Films 1960. Vintage borderless single weight still photograph from the 1960 French-Italian film. Charming Belmondo and stoic Milo in a candid moment. Cropping annotations on the verso in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>One of the great French noirs from the classic period based on Giovanni's 1958 novel about his experience in prison and the gangsters he met there. Fugitive gang leader Abel Davos Ventura sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. He tries to evade hitman Eric Stark Belmondo while navigating the new underground of crime in France. <br/><br/>Set in Italy and France shot there on location. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches Very Good Plus. <br/><br/>BFI 1185. Criterion Collection 434. <br/><br/>Lee US. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Spicer US. Mondex Films unknown books
194889763Lake Success NY: UNited Nations Dept. of Social Affairs Population Division 1948. Paperback. Fair. graphs maps 61p. Softcover in original warpper. 28 cm. Modest cover soil. Reports on the Popultion of trust territories No. 1. <br/><br/> UNited Nations Dept. of Social Affairs, Population Division paperback books
1971148885Hong Kong: Hong Hwa Film 1971. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. <br/><br/>A young girl finds an injured warrior who is being hunted by seven devils. He begins training her in a secret form of "evil karate" and once she grows up they set out to defeat the seven devils and their master. <br/><br/>14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a shallow vertical crease. Light toning to one side of the flyer. Hong Hwa Film unknown books
199610791012 double leaf pages. Honolulu: Manoa Press 1996. 12 double leaf pages with 1 folding leaf of the original Chinese text. Rust colored handmade paper cover with paper label on front. Includes a printed announcement for the book with a handwritten note from the author. Fine as issued. § Numbered 31 of 52 copies. This is a translation of a page from the T’ang Ch’i Shuo Strange Stories from the T’ang Dynasty. Manoa Press unknown books
200326768Berkeley: Atelos 2003. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Trade paperbound book. 327 pp novel by this gifted author. Published as part of a series of books by Atelos which is a project of Hip's Road edited by Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz. A near fine copy. INSCRIBED by Lin on the title page. An uncommon signature. Atelos paperback books
1972148888Hong Kong: Kwong Ming Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. <br/><br/>In early 20th century China a worker accidentally kills his boss in a fight. He flees to Thailand with his friends where they are forced to fight in an underground fighting ring. <br/><br/>14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and occasional light foxing. Kwong Ming Film unknown books
2013407146Milan: Charta / Asia Society 2013. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 136 pages. 91 color illustrations. Pictorial boards. "One of only a few internationally recognized female artists from China Lin Tianmiao born 1961 is known for her innovative use of thread and embroidery as both medium and subject matter in her sculptures photographs videos and installations. When visiting China after having lived in New York for most of her life Tianmiao was reminded of the time spent in her childhood helping her mother sew clothes for the family. Prompted by this memory the artist created a practice she calls "thread winding" where she winds silk or cotton thread around an object until it is completely covered and eventually transformed. Bound Unbound which accompanies the artist's exhibition at the Asia Society in New York surveys for the first time the past 20 years of Tianmiao's work including an interview with the artist and essays by leading scholars in Chinese contemporary art Melissa Chiu and Guo Xiaoyan" the publisher. <br/><br/> Charta / Asia Society hardcover books
2017169052Taipei: Tapei Fine Arts Museum 2017. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 2 through May 22 2016. Text in English and Chinese. Prefaces by Ping Lin and Manray Hsu. Text by Hong-Jong Lin. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and with some inserts. A fine copy in wrappers and with mylar dust jacket. An interesting production. Uncommon. Tapei Fine Arts Museum unknown books
1972049006Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong 1972. lxvi 1720p. original burgundy dloch thick quarto format. Chinese University of Hong Kong unknown books
197388306Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 1973. Paperback. Near Fine. 4 124p. text printed on one side. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Oral history Programme Series no. 3. Recollections of a Japanese official who served in occupied war-time Singapore in various posts Advisor of Defence Headquarters Chief Officer of Education and Chief Welfare Officer. <br/><br/> Institute of Southeast Asian Studies paperback books
195949648Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company 1959. Third printing. Hardcover. Very good-/Good. The Personal Account of a Distinguished PhilosopherÕs Spiritual Pilgrimage Back to Christianity. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company 1959. Third printing. 254 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Scattered light pencil markings some yellowing of front flap less to back flap. Small tear & wear to top back of dj else a clean solid copy. Very good-/Good. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
2012138577Cambridge England: The Fitzwilliam Museum / Yale University Press 2012. Hardcover. VG. Black cloth gilt letters on spine black & color illus. dust jacket 356 pp. 350 color illus. 120 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition. "The Han dynasty was the first to forge a stable empire governing all of China. It ruled during a golden age that shaped much of the nation's cultural history and development. In an effort to preserve their legacy of beauty and power the Han created elaborate tombs containing exquisite artistic treasures intended for use in the afterlife. The finest of these treasures to have survived include exquisite jades bronzes and ceramics found in the tombs of the Han imperial family and of a rival "emperor" of Nanyue. Many of the items including warrior statues dancing figures and priceless jewels -- intended to ensure protection entertainment and continued wealth and status respectively -- are brought together for the first time in this stunning publication. Featuring newly commissioned photography and essays by leading scholars this sumptuously illustrated catalogue presents a ground-breaking account of the finest treasures from the Han dynasty." pub. The Fitzwilliam Museum / Yale University Press hardcover books
1993260816El Cerrito CA: Dr. Yutang Lin 1993. Set of seven paperback volumes reprinting booklets authored by the Berkeley-based Buddhist yogi. Very good. Dr. Yutang Lin unknown books
