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8vo, 248 pages, maps, figures, tables. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. How christianity has been growing in China, following its suppression under Chairman Mao. Illustrated with black & white photographs.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (2 in red and black), and full-page illustration and double-page map in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cordier 3487.
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., with plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with gilt rosettes, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt lozenge, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Includes recollections of the Pahang Disturbances of December 1890 - September 1891, and the expeditions into the 'Benighted Lands' of 1894 and 1895. VERY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, plates and full-page maps in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.42; Graham & Cole F8.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, I56.
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., 127th Thousand, with plates; olive cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in green, uncut, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with loss at extremities and browned at backstrip. Enser, p.91; Graham & Cole N15.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and facsimiles in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.76.
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., 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 photographs and a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and front endpaper map; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., Second Impression, with endpaper maps; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.55 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece plates and endpaper maps; orange cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded at head and tail else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published a year after the US edition. Enser, 92; Graham & Col, G38.
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 20 plates on 16; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded (but all gilt just legible), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled, frayed at edges and wanting top half of backstrip. With the trade stamp of Oxford Book & Stationery Co., Calcutta, on front free endpaper. With a private corporate circulation list on front free endpaper. One of the most detailed of the relatively few personal accounts of irregular forces in this theatre. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.89; Graham & Cole, H10.
