YUK-WAI Yung LiMareMagnum
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8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
8vo., First Edition, with numerous trade advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes YCAC Rugby Reunion in London and Twickenham, with separate slip naming personnel in cover photograph.
8vo., Second Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, ribbon marker, original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small neat blind stamp on title. With the trade stamp of Thacker of Bombay on half-title verso. First published in two volumes in 1882. This is the first single-volume edition.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text and patterned endpapers; silver cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated and detailed history of one of the most famous pewter companies in the world.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; ; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately rubbed and worn dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.218.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 20 plates on 16; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, blue top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard history of the Chinese Customs Service and a biography of Sir Robert Hart who directed its activities for nearly half a century. SCARCE.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, text in red and black, very numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number ful-page) throughout, and printed endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in red and black, a fine copy. Collects eye-witness accounts from 67 survivors. SCARCE.
Light soiling, closed tears and edgewear to DJ. ; Travel impressions with b&w photographs from Japan, "French China", Ceylon and India; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cassell's 'History of Warfare' series under the general editorship of John Keegan.
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.213.
8vo., Third Impression thus, some contemporary annotation; limp cloth wrappers printed in red, covers moderately age-worn and faded else a bright copy.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Monograph Series, No. 24.
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.
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., First Edition, with numerous photographs and full-page map in the text; blue boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, and 2 illustrations and 5 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Cercle du Nouveau Livre 1968, In-8 toile éditeur rouge, 348 pages. Parfait état.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, boards lightly damp-marked at lower edge (not materially affecting contents), a good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plate; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears on rear panel. Waley's classic text was first published in 1921. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was a young nurse fighting the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, green endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harrowing account of Japanese captivity in the Philippines. Enser, p.141 (recording the UK edition).
8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned, tiny signature on front free endpaper; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, clean copy. With the trade ticket of University Book Store, Singapore on front paste-down.
