London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Val Biro (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Rare. Originally published in Japanese. No 3. of the Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History, edited by Mark Elvin. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. 12 essays from various contributors on the history and influence of the T'ang dynasty, 618-906. Contributors include Elling O. Eide, Hans H. Frankel, David Lattimore, David McMullen, Ikeda On, Charles A. Peterson, Wang Gungwu, Howard J. Wechsler, and Stanley Weinstein..... More
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
Hong Kong: Information Services Department, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Oversized. Please note additional handling charge. Chen Chong Swee was an important early Singapore artist and educator who made significant contributions to the development of the Singapore and Malaya art scenes. He was amongst the first artists in Singapore to incorporate..... More
Hong Kong: CBL Fung (self published), 2009. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Signed by author (Nelly Fung). Beneath the Banyan Tree is a daughter's personal account of her family's story through four generations and a turbulent era. The tale begins during the Spanish colonial period, and continues through the Philippine Revolution..... More
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..... More
London: Serpent's Tail, 2018. Joe Wilson/Debut Art (illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune ● NPR..... More
New York: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1964. J.M. McNeill (ed). Second Printing of Scholar's Library Edition. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Grace Wu Bruce Co. Ltd, 1995. First Edition (presumed). Paperback (Outsized). More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Lynd Ward (illustrations). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. From our Instagram post on this title: These beautiful illustrations come from what appears to be a 1942 first edition copy of the classic children’s book, The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1985. Hiroji Kubota (photographs). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. From Publisher's Weekly: The China framed by Kubota's camera lens is neither a collectivist utopia lurching toward a high-tech future nor a consumer society adopting capitalist ways, trends overplayed recently in the Western press..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The first English language biography ever published on We Cheng (580-643), chief adviser to T'ang T'ai-tsung, reputed founder of the T'ang dynasty. More
Chung Wu Publ, 1972. 1st printing, ex lib. More
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Arthur Rackham (illustrations). First Folio Society Edtion. Hardcover. With an introduction by Henry Williamson. An immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton’s classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies Volume 64. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now..... More
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..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co. (HK), 1987. Shi Guaoliang (illustrations); Li Suk Han (cover design). Paperback. This is the original English translation which was first published in the United States in 1952. A Chinese version of the novel was published in 1980 but was itself a translation from the English..... More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. More
London: Angus & Robertson, 1983. Reprint of 1977 Edition. Hardcover. Nonsense poems in French, when pronounced, sound like English nursery rhymes "THE MOST ECCENTRIC, ENTERTAINING AND ENIGMATICALLY ESOTERIC BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF HUMOUR AND PUBLISHING! Years of scholarly study have been spent analysing these ancient French rhymes..... More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. An anthology of poems by Malaysian poets and writers, including Muhammad Haji Salleh, Shirley Lim, Wong Phui Nam, Fadzilah Amin, Ee Tiang Hong, A. Ghafar Ibrahim, and others. More
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