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160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
102 pages. Features: Bell Telephone ad features photo of Edwin Felch, a developer of the Titan guidance system; Why a Marine Corps?; USMCR... Amateur or Professional?; Caterpillar "Traxcavator" ad; Where Do We Stand? - A Progress Report; Sikorsky S-62 amphibian turbocopter photo ad; Archival aviation photos; Missile Report, 1959 - a guided tour through the Marine Corps missile and rocket arsenal; Why We Need Serials; Photo ad for the Rotorcycle built by Gyrodyne; A Touch of Tradition; Belleau Wood; Hell in China - Extensive photo-illustrated article on the Boxer Uprising / Rebellion; Marine Reunions; Support by Fire - Part 5 - Atomic Fires, The Big Lightning; Force in Readiness 1959; The Unlovable Latin - Augustino Sandino was the P.T. Barnum of guerilla warfare in Central America - article with photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Imprimerie J. Duculot, Gembloux. 1937. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Non coupé. 178 pages. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de garde. Quelques rousseurs. (Rare) Université de Louvain, Faculté de Droit, Ecole des Sciences Politiques et Sociales.
in-12, 343 pages, 64 figures, index, relie cartonnage toile de l'ed.— RARE ET RECHERCHE. Bel exemplaire. [BU-12]
8vo, br. ed. pp.xvii-199. sticker on spine ow. a very nice copy. This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and "class struggle."The treasure-trove of evidence Zheng Yi has unearthed offers unprecedented insights into the way the internecine, factional struggles of the Cultural Revolution reached a horrifying level of insanity and frenzy among the ethnic Zhuang people of Guangxi. Profoundly moving, acutely observed, and unflinchingly graphic, Scarlet Memorial is a shining example of a genre of investigative reporting that courageously and independently records obscure and officially censored historical events, revealing hidden dimensions of modern Chinese history and politics.
Hardcover. Octavo [21.5 cm], 352pp. 1/4 red and black cloth with beige paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a red ink stamped title on the front cover + DW Very good - Bel exemplaire. [109B-11]
Hardcover. Octavo [21.5 cm]? 352pp. 1/4 red and black cloth with beige paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a red ink stamped title on the front cover + DW Very good ++ - Tres bel exemplaire. [CA27/2]
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and 3 full-page maps in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram back lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. XCV. With 6pp series catalogue bound in at end. This copy was presented by J E Morpurgo to the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate with press-mark on front free endpaper. Jack Eric Morpurgo (1918-2000), professor, historian, man of letters and eminent Old Blue, was educated at Christ's Hospital School and the University of North Brunswick, Canada. After service with the Royal Artillery in WWII he worked as an editor at Penguin Books and was several times nominated by Allen Lane as his successor, but the appointment fell foul of the volatile relationship shared by the two men (Morpurgo wrote Lane's biography in 1970). After Penguin he joined the National Book League (now Book Trust) where he rose to Director-General. He was subsequently appointed Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds and was awarded several visiting professorships at universities throughout the world. He is the stepfather of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Scarce.
IN FOLIO. EN FEUILLES AVEC CHEMISE [MOY]. 1 PAGE. 101 ILL EN NOIR. [BE]
2 volumes oblong 4to in wraps. (495 p.) : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 27 cm. Cover title also in pinyin: Zhongguo banhuajia xinzuoxuan. in chinese. Wood-engraving, Chinese - 20th century, please inquire on international shipping. incisoni cinesi del xx secolo. heavy please international customers inquire on shipping.
VG original cloth Small tears at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription and a chinese red stamp to title page. frontis detached but present. ; Yellow, beautifully decorated cloth with brown lettering. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 528 pages.Illustrated by Cumming, C. F. Gordon.
547pp., hardcover (editor's green cartonnated cover), in the series "Monumenta Serica. Monograph series" volume XXVIII, 24cm., few underlinings in the introduction, good condition, rare, [contains a fac-simile reproduction of the original manuscript, and an annotated and critical English translation], W84284
8vo, hardcover, 448pp. Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many similarities between both cultures have been detected, which has energized the field of comparative history. The present volume adds to the debate a creative method of juxtaposing historical societies. Each contribution covers both ancient China and the Mediterranean in an accessible manner. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses in their culture specific manifestation as demos (Greece), populus (Rome) and min (China).
4 vol. in-8 br., Gaume Frères, Libraires Editeurs, Paris, 1857-1858, xvi-469 pp. et grande carte dépliante ; 455 ; xxii-462 ; 476 pp. Complet. Exemplaire bien complet de la carte dépliante. Etat satisfaisant (brochage d'origine fragile avec qq. fentes en dos, belle fraîcheur par ailleurs, exemplaire méritant d'être établi dans une reliure de qualité) Français
oblong 4to, hardcover in dj 54 p., 240 p. , 583 images of engraved, stone sculptures on rock from Shandong, mainly from rubbings : ill. ; 27 x 39 cm. Stone carving - China - Shandong Sheng, riproduzioni di incisioni su pietra han, in chinese, with detailed description of each image-
1 vol. in-8 relié demi-vélin à coins blanc, couv. cons., coll. Grandes vies, grandes oeuvres, Editions de la Direction de l'Instruction Publique en Indochine, s.d. (1942), 80 pp. Bel envoi de l'auteur "à Monsieur le vice-Amiral d'Escadre Jean Decoux, gouverneur général de l'Indochine, cette brève histoire d'un de nos grands anciens qui illustre la Marine et l'Indochine que nous aimons tant tous deux. En bien respectueuse affection". Bon exemplaire de ce petit tirage consacré à la figure de l'Amiral Courbet. L'Amiral Decoux avait succédé le 25 juin 1940 au général Catroux comme gouverneur général de l'Indochine française. Français
Ouvrage complet en 2 tomes (en 3 volumes physiques), lxiv,536 + xxxix,360 + xxxix,485 pp., 23cm., brochures originales (dos renforcés), pages toujours non coupées (!), texte en très bon état, dans la série "Bibliothèque de l'histoire du droit et des institutions", X99274
2 tomes, 16mo reliure, jaquette coffret. Volumes 1 et 2. Segalen, médecin de la Marine, ausculte le monde comme un grand corps. Faire de ce monde une part de soi, tel est pour lui l’enjeu de la littérature. Plus que d’autres, il a le don de percevoir la multiplicité du visible, l’instabilité des choses, la variété du sensible. L’exotisme est son affaire, mais pour en aborder les thèmes il a soin, précaution rare en son temps, de se débarrasser du poncif « palmier, chameau, casque colonial ». Son appétence pour le divers n’est pas d’ordre ethnographique. Ce qu’il vise, c’est « une Esthétique du Divers ».À sa mort à quarante et un ans, en 1919, trois livres seulement avaient paru : Les Immémoriaux, Stèles et Peintures. Des milliers de feuillets manuscrits attendent éditeurs et lecteurs. Les efforts d’Annie Joly-Segalen font peu à peu sortir de l’ombre cet édifice virtuel, « poésie encore ignorée et au sein de laquelle vit un mystère » (Pierre Jean Jouve, 1955). C’est sans doute cette lente maturation qui a fait de l’oeuvre de Segalen notre contemporaine inattendue. La nature des manuscrits, lieu d’un dialogue de l’auteur avec soi-même, interroge la notion même d’oeuvre et rend illusoire toute idée d’exhaustivité. Les genres, fiction, poésie, journal, essai, sont soit combinés, comme dans Le Fils du Ciel, projet d’art total, soit déjoués : « J’étouffe dans le Roman ! »En respectant comme jamais la présentation des documents autographes (images comprises), la présente édition ne renouvelle pas seulement la lecture du Fils du Ciel ou de l’Essai sur l’exotisme elle rend aux textes leur mouvement propre, celui d’une marche vers l’idée grandiose, et chimérique, que l’auteur se faisait de l’oeuvre à laquelle il les destinait. Édition de Christian Doumet avec la collaboration d'Adrien Cavallaro, Jean-François Louette, Andrea Schellino et Maud Schmitt. Préface et notes de Christian Doumet 183x118x70mm 1022g.
in 8°, 26 cm, copertina "alla rustica" recente, tagli colorati; pp. 64, (2), vignetta silografica al frontespizio
Tall 8vo x, 448 pages. Maps. Illustrated. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. red cloth gilt lettering, scarce.
1 vol. 4to. softcover, black & white maps and graphics, Word Wide Fund for Nature International - WWF, Hong Kong 1996, 529 pp. Text in English Very nice copy. Scarce, nowadays. Anglais
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Text in Chinese and English. 10 1/8"w x 9 7/8"h. Many b&w photos.
308 p. Light age stain. Deckle edges. 12mo. 210 mm. Original cloth spine over plain paper covered boards, worn. Original paper spine label. Loss at head of spine. Hardbound. Very Good. The Young Rifleman's Comrade may be a translation of the third volume of Maempel's 'Der junger Feldjager.' Edited by Goethe, an edition, says the translator, whose fame is even more extensively European than the adventures of the hero. The hero's adventures take him from Germany through France, Spain, Italy and England. The last part of the volume describes his shipwreck off the African coast near Mauritius, and his adventures before reaching safety. This English translation first appeared in London, 1826. It is attributed to John Kincaid (1787-1862). First American edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 29614. PAIMP 23
