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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and 2 folding maps; original pictorial green boards, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
Very Good French Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 71, [1] p., 1 b/w portrait of Maspero. Hommage à Henri Maspero, 1883-1945. Henri Paul Gaston Maspero was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. He was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Contents: Hommages.; La vie et l'oeuvre, par Jacques Gernet.; Henr Maspero et les etudes indochinoises, par Pierre-Bernard Lafont.; Note archeologie a la memoire d'Henri Maspero, par Madeleine David.; L'apport d'Henri Maspero a la pensee philosophique de la Chine, par Nicole Vandier-Nicolas.; Maspero et les etudes taoistes, par Max Kaltenmark.; L'apport de Maspero a l'histoire du bouddhisme chinois, par Paul Magnin.; Maspero: L'histoire de la religion populaire chinoise, par Danielle Eliasberg.; Les documents d'Asie centrale dans l'oeuvre de Maspero, par Michel Soymie.; Complements a la bibliographie des oeuvres d'Henri Maspero. OCLC no.: 805693054.
Hardcover fort volume in-12, 312 + 404 pages, reliure demi-percale à coins. Bel exemplaire. [NV-41]
3 volumes in-16, 476 - 468 - 461 pages, brochés. Très bel ensemble, très frais. [P-2]
Book is in excellent condition with blue HB covers, white print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, edge wear at corners and spine. A great many full color, full page photos throughout of unusual, even outlandish historical architecture, some modern, from around the world. 320 pages, contents include wood architecture in The far east, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, America, South East Asia, Australia, etc. Remainder mark bottom page ends.
Book is in excellent condition, back cover appears to have gold paint at upper corner. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
8vo., First Edition, with plate and maps; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Enser, p.42; Graham & Cole C6.
8vo., Tenth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps in the text and large folding coloured map at end; ivory buckram, backstrip lettered in green, green top (mildly faded), backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. First published in 1949. Enser, p.253 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), covers mildly age-soiled else a good, bright working copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, rose endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper Arguably the fullest and most objective single-volume account to date.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, I56.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
8vo., Second Impression, with double-page map in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top lightly spotted, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired on inner surface. First-hand account of the building of the Burma-Siam railway. Published in the same year as the first edition. ALL PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE. Enser, p.423; Graham and Cole M25.
Oblong 4to., Second and Best Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The best account, including a valuable chronology of RN ships in or around Hong Kong from 1834-1997. This augmented edition includes the RN withdrawal
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 16 and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. One of the best of the recent crop of titles on the 'forgotten war', this study makes use of much new research by the Burma Star association. It is particularly valuable for its account of the Chindits. Already scarce in the original edition.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. All early printings are already scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Personal account of the Pacific war from 1943 to 1945 by a British naval officer attached to the US Pacific Fleet. Enser, p.459; Law 0608.
8vo., First Edition, with 3 full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of Lewis's acclaimed account of his lengthy tour through the Indonesian archipelago.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 16, neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at edges. Detailed account of the Temiar-Senoi people of the Kelantan jungle by the Assistant Protector of Aborigines.
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, and a fill-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's account of his capture at the fall of Hong Hong, his escape to mainland China and his eventual pick-up by 204 Military Mission, an Anglo-Australian guerrilla unit based on Chungking and training Chinese Nationalists.
Light wear to boards. Spine a bit faded. Small intendations to front boards. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Hinges weakening ; Decorative dark blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt decoration with crown. Numerous b&w illustrations ; 8vo; 387 pages
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.
