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199422954London: Jonathan Horne 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12.3x10.0x1.1in. Signed by Authors. signed by author; light foxing to top edge of text block 1/2 inch repaired tear to edge of one page dust jacket with wear at head and foot of spine and at corners with repaired tear at bottom of front fold. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>727 objects are described and illustrated in black and white. In addition there are 40 color plates of selected examples. <br>299pp 4.25lb 12.3x10.0x1.1in Jonathan Horne hardcover
193523952Japan 1935. Photography. Good overall. Small Japanese photo album with 32 original photographs.<br /> An unusual photo album filled with mostly pre-WWII Manchukuo Imperial Army photographs most likely from Northern China or Manchuria. The only identified photo has text on the verso of a gifting of the image to Suzuki Torao f rom Major General Yurin Monento. the other Images are primarily casual snapshots of army buddies with their dogs military groups at attention and in formation some formal photos of military leaders some of a Japanese home a 4 shot series of Geisha girls posing outside with 'bubble captions' overhead in Japanese a splitback postcard of Public Park Ohmotodani Itsukushima a studio photo of a woman and two children in formal Japanese dress a snapshot of a young Japanese woman in Western clothing then the same woman in Japanese dress a used postcard of an Asian female dance troupe in coordinating dress holding hands with a sign 'go MACUS.SHOW" behind them. Interestingly the album cover is titled in pen in English "Photographs. Belongs to M. Asanoi" There was a Col. Asano Takashi part of the Manchukuo Imperial Army in 1936 so possibly this was a relation. 7 x 9 3/4" paper board covers taped at one long edge as binding. Paper pages with primarily tipped in casual snapshots postcards a few formal photos varying in size 3.25 x 2.5" 8 4.25 x 3" 5 5.75 x 4.5" 14 6.25 x 4.5 1. Covers dusty spine chipped but holding interior pages some torn some photos detached but present. Photos in very good condition. Front cover has printed WW11 battle scene illustration laid down last interior page has a similar illustration. 32 photos on 25 pages. The albur holds 44 pp total. An interesting perspective of the Japanese military in Northern China. unknown
191026724Peking 1910. Photography. Six vernacular photos of street scenes each with notations in a period hand on the front of back of the image. The photographer is unknown. The four photographs of Peking are titled Marriage; Chinese funeral long view; Chinese funeral close view; Chemin Gate. The two photographs of Nanking are titled Ming Tombs with 4 Westerners sitting on the humps of camel statues on the road to Ming Tombs; Nanking China 1910 children in street with 3 Western onlookers.<br /> <br /> In 1910 Nanking hosted an unrecognized exposition titled the 1910 Nanyang Industrial Exposition. It hosted 305000 Visitors and had 15 countries participate. It opened on June 5 1910 and closed on November 29. 1910. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> Albumen photographs measuring 6 3/8 X 4 1/4". Manuscript notations. One has tiny split and rough upper edge some slight creases otherwise in very good condition. unknown
1920271161920. Photography. Very good condition. 32 real photo images of the city of Shanghai. All of the photographs are titled most in English some in Chinese for example; Lung Wha Pagoda Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp. Race Course S'hai Park Hotel Birds eye view of Nanking Road French Bund Sampan Boat Garden Bridge Ave. Edward VII Soo Chow Creek Embankment Building. B&w photographs 3 x 2 1/8" with remnants of the original paper envelope 'Yung Chang Tai Store on Foochow Road' with Chinese characters. unknown
16923St. Austell Cornwall: NP n/d. Limited edition. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 70pp. Decorated stiff boards. Raised lettering on cover faded. Business card of "M. A. Gesner of Hammill & Gillespie Inc." pasted-in on front endpaper small stamp "2nd issue" on same page "No. 1029." Fascinating and thoroughly comprehensive company history of the "English China Clays Ltd." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs in gravure one color map as well as decorated initials at the beginning of each chapter. A complete and exhaustively illustrated history of the company documenting: managing directors; head office and branches; 22 clay pits and workers settling pits and refining mica drags drying kilns and linhays; stone quarries; ground china stone mills; Lee Moor brick works; power plants; water wheels; employees' houses and cottages; horse motor lorry and tramline transport; workshops and stores; export and shipping; and descriptions of clay uses in paper making and pottery. Staining rubbing and scuffing to boards. Parts of decorated top-layer on boards chipped particularly on back. 1" x 2" piece near gutter on bottom of free front endpaper missing. Some age yellowing to pages. Pulling to top edge of last two pages. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. NP hardcover
202481439<p>8vo hardover edition in dust jacket with illustrated endpapers and fore edge. First edition thus. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper. Negligible wear; pages are clean and unmarked; binding is square and tight. Near fine. </p> Picador / The Broken Binding hardcover
202481440<p>8vo hardover edition in dust jacket with illustrated endpapers and fore edge. First edition thus. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper. Negligible wear; pages are clean and unmarked; binding is square and tight. Near fine.</p> Picador / The Broken Binding hardcover
1996__3110149052Mouton de Gruyter 1996. Hardcover. New. reprint 2011 edition. 380 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Mouton de Gruyter hardcover
1944195577New York.: Army Information Branch. 1944. Very large folding colour map main map 85 x 95.5 cm plus 6 sidebar maps together 85 x 14.1 cms; sheet 88 x 118 cms several fold splits archivally sealed in good condition. Large colour wartime map issued by the U.S. Army Information Branch in 1944 the main map showing Shanghai to French Indochina with the islands of Formosa and Hainan scale 7 inches to 200 miles. At the right edge are inset maps of Shanghai Wenchow Foochow Swatow Canton and Hong Kong. Map issued to accompany Newsmap Volume III No. 51B. . Army Information Branch. unknown
1944215448New York.: Army Information Branch. 1944. Very large folding colour map main map 85 x 95.5 cm plus 6 sidebar maps together 85 x 14.1 cms; sheet 88 x 118 cms and on the verso a large circular map centred on Europe the Ruhr Valley & Vienna with smaller maps of Southeast Asia and the Philippines and a map of Okinawa; both in very good unblemished condition. The main map of Southeast China includes inset maps of the region around Shanghai Wenchow Foochow Swatow Canton and Hong Kong and on the verso text as well as the maps Eastern Europe South Pacific Okinawa reporting on the war: Americans Isolate Ruhr; Vienna Threatened; Ryukyus Invaded. . Army Information Branch. unknown
1856177303London.: The Illustrated London News. December 271856. Engraving 23.5 x 34.5 cm plus caption from "The Illustrated London News" uncoloured as issued marginal staining and browning paper adhesions at the lower edge small edge tears and a few chips but an uncommon image in good condition. View towards Hong Kong Harbour published in "The Illustrated London News" by Richard Principal Leitch signed by him lower left. A most interesting composition overlooking Government House the formal gardens with a gardener at work the officers’ quarters with officers on parade the town of Victoria and a view across the harbour to Kowloon. <br> <br>From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1900166942Chicago.: A. Flanagan Company. 1900. Coloured map of China Indochina and Korea and a coloured map of Japan containing insert maps of Formosa Ryukyu Island Ezo and Chishima and an Outline map of Japan. Coloured frontispiece and one other colour illustration together with black & white photographic illustrations engravings and line drawings throughout the text. Original green decorated cloth stamped & lettered in black. 90pp 79pp and 6 pages of book advertisements. Prior owner signature on front free endpaper. A particularly good copy offered together with the 1931 edition which omits any mention of the Boxer Rebellion. <br>The 1931 edition was published by A. Flanagan Company Chicago. 166pp Original tan cloth covered boards with a prior owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Written for intermediate and upper grade American schoolchildren the earlier of these two editions of this textbook published in 1900 contains a description of the Boxer rebellion that has been removed from later editions: <br> <br>" How we have longed to visit this wonderful country! A few months ago such a visit would not have been possible for China was at war with our nation and many of the nations of Europe. Our lives would have been in danger and the journey to China might have been the last we should ever have taken. <br> <br>You have heard of the Boxers of China who killed many foreigners and also many Christianized Chinese in the late revolution in that country. Do you know who these Boxers are They are members of a secret patriotic society. They love their country and want to prevent it from falling into the possession of foreigners. They believe that these foreigners have come to overthrow their government and to destroy their religion. They are opposed to the ruling family in China who are Manchus. These Manchus came from a territory outside of China Proper and Chinese Boxers have always disliked to have the rulers of their country chosen from Manchuria." There is a particularly gruesome illustration of Boxer heads in cages exposed as a warning to passers-by. <br> <br>The 1931 edition omits any reference to the Boxers and the illustration described above has also been removed. . A. Flanagan Company. hardcover
1909215975Albert Dewit. 1909. Illustrated with innumerable black and white engravings photographs and drawings and including the famous detachable plate of the linghi - Chinese torture of slow cutting which the author recommends that sensitive souls could remove if it offended their Western principles! viii 308pp. Early twentieth century half calf rubbed and corners bumped boards in pebbled cloth. Leather title label lettered in gilt endpapers browned inner hinges split but holding firm a tight and clean copy. 21 x 14cm. The only edition of this curious work which despite the author's prejudices offers insight into the opinions of the Chinese faced with Western invasions. It ironically relates the grievances addressed to Western "Barbarians" by Chinese "Barbarians" through 4 fictional accounts entitled: Opinions of an Enlightened Scholar The Discovery of Europe by a Son of Han Opinions of an Aggressive Scholar Opinions of a Boxer. Text in French. . Albert Dewit hardcover
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2024x-1032768894Routledge 2024. Hardcover. New. 320 pages. 9.19x6.13x9.21 inches. Routledge hardcover
ria9780415584708_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book sets out the general objectives principles and framework of a proposed new social welfare system for China. It provides a comprehensive overview of China's current welfare services including retirement pensions education h hardcover
2025x-9819525012Springer Nature 2025. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 9.26x6.11x9.21 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
20182081502111900079china statistics 2018. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Hardcover china statistics paperback
20052081502111902115Sekai chishiki 2005. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sekai chishiki paperback
1972150655Beijing: Libroservo de ina Esperanto-Ligo 1972. A rare example of one of the sales catalogues issued by the China Esperanto League for overseas Esperantists wishing to order Mao's works. For catalogues issued in the 1960s and 1970s WorldCat records a total of only nine copies. Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 the All-China Esperanto Association later renamed the "China Esperanto League" was formed in Shanghai and in the 1950s the League hosted speakers from around the world. While foreign contacts ceased during the Cultural Revolution the League used its network to promote Maoism to Esperanto movements abroad. The present catalogue offers for sale at very cheap prices volumes of Mao's Selected Works as well as pamphlets of his speeches and major essays. At the rear an order form is provided for customers to complete and return to Beijing by post. Though not marked as such the present copy is from the library of Paul Pickowicz b. 1945 a notable scholar of modern Chinese culture and society. In 1971 Pickowicz was one of 15 American scholars invited to visit the mainland the delegation being the first group of American academics to set foot in Mao's China. Duodecimo pp. 18. Stapled as issued original pale orange wrappers front cover lettered in black and red above red five-pointed star. A few marks to wrappers touch of foxing contents else clean and bright. A near-fine copy of this fragile publication. unknown
28627Northborough MA: Earthling Publications. 2005. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Signed by the author. Original black faux leather with silver titles to the spine and upper board in slipcase. With black and white illustrations by Richard Kirk. A fine copy the binding square and tight the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Housed in the lightly rubbed and scuffed black cloth slipcase. Issued in a limited edition of 400 copies of which this example is lettered 'MMS' and is signed by China Miéville in black ink on the limitation page. A beautifully produced illustrated edition of Miéville's debut novel an urban fantasy set in a mystical London underworld. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Northborough, MA: Earthling Publications. 2005 hardcover
202483448London: Del Rey 2024. Front endpaper signed to the page by both Keanu Reeves and China Mieville. New book. . Signed. First Edition. Hard. New/New. 8vo. Del Rey Hardcover
19021206T006London: Hodder and Stoughton 1902. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 285. Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches 15 x 21 cm. First UK Edition. Half red morocco leather binding with pink buckram boards. Gilt decoration to spine marbled page edges and endpapers. Spine darkened and has slight rubbing to edges. Good solid binding clean text throughout. Prize bookplate tipped in to front free endpaper Edgehill Girls College Bideford dated 1904 previous owner's name stamp to corner of first blank. Includes the first printing of the diary of Annie Royle Taylor who in 1892 became the first woman to travel into Tibet. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches 15 x 21 cm. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
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