London: Methuen, 1970. Georges Geoffroy (book design). First U.K. Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Based on the film, Tintin et les Oranges Bleues (original title), with a screenplay by Andre Barret, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin and Jean Bouise as Captain Haddock. Translated from the French by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and...
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1993. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. With an introduction by Charles E. Pierce. From the N.Y. Times (Sept. 19, 1993): A Charming Prince Turns 50, His Luster Intact by Rita Reif Long before Sputnik orbited Earth and man walked on the moon...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman’s masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover (Outsized).
Hong Kong: Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973. Softcover. c/r page states: "ART GALLERY PUBLICATION NO. 6" In English and Chinese. The book published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 29th June - 6 August 1973.
New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2017. John Jennings. First Edition. Hardcover. Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release...
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture...
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author.
Manchester: Camphor Press, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin. It tells the love story of a young Chinese couple during the turmoil of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Childhood friends Han Suyin, a medical student, and Tang Pao, an officer in the Kuomintang...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First U.S. Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author. Very rare. Includes both parts of Han Suyin's autobiography: My House Has Two Doors (1949-1965) and Phoenix Moon (1966-1979).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2018. Chip Kidd (cover art). First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko...
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959. First UK Edition. Hardcover.
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959. First UK Edition. Hardcover.
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized).
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Jason Cockroft (cover illustration). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Very rare in this edition. The last and final installment in the famed Harry Potter series. This is a Special/Deluxe U.K. Edition with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Rosemary Wells. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in Norwegian under the title Julemysteriet.
London: The Folio Society, 1980. Peter Pendrey (lino-cuts). First Folio Society Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. From our Instagram post for this book, dated 11 April 2019: Karen Blixen in ‘Out of Africa’: >>>The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the...
Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Comics, 1996. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. Out of print, rare edition. This is a collection of books 1, 2 and 3 of the Dark Horse comic book series Domu: A Child's Dream. A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, silently holds...
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies the results of long research checked by the personal experience gained in the course of extensive travel between 1958 and 1966...
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. Robert Stone (cover illustration). First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This unique collection of translations of Chinese stories explores the manifestations of "self" and the impact of place upon Chinese identity, found both on the mainland and in other Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. Second Revised Edition. Fifth Impression. Hardcover.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First English Edition. Hardcover. First published in German as "Chinesisches Kunstgewerbe" by Klinkhardt and Biermann.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents. Litigation masters emerge as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in 18th-...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Oversized/heavy book. Additional postage required. "The beauty of the Japanese aesthetic first struck me when I saw my mother's kimono, a padded winter garment of black silk with a bold design of twisted pine branches covered with snow.... I can...
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