The Bang Bang Birds
London: Pan Books Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Very rare edition. A Philip McAlpine spy story. More
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Perfect Strangers (Issue One)
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the... More
The Fragrant Chinese
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The World of Thought in Ancient China
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a.... More
Spain: A History in Art
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Windows on the Chinese World: Reflections by Five Historians
Lexington Books, 2009. Hardcover. More
A Little Primer of Tufu
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’s classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese... More
Murder Must Advertise (A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel)
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. More
Japanese Pottery Old and New (The Detroit Institute of Arts October 8 - November 12, 1950)
Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More
Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Trade Paperback. This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives... More
Maigret's Christmas (Nine Stories)
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1977. Bascove (jacket design). First American Edition (stated). Second Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Jean Stewart. More
The Adventures of Tintin: Flight 714
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1975. First Paperback Edition. Paperback (Outsized). More
The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham's Treasure
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First American Edition (stated). Early Printing. Softcover. More
Siddhartha
New York: MJF Books. Reprint. Hardcover. Original translation. More
China
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
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
New York: BasicBooks, 1997. First Edition, 3rd ptg. Hardcover. In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered,a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined... More
The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Edition
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. Twenty-Third Printing. Hardcover. Contains The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Based on the reset edition first published in 2002, which is a revised version of the reset edition first published 1994. First published in one volume 1968. More
Monet: The Masterworks
New York: Portland House, 1986. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. Hardcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
Dragon Hotel
New York: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1969. Hiroshi Manabe (line illustrations in text), Tajiro Kushido (jacket). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. "Taiwan today: a hilarious account by the author of In the Heat of the Night" More
A Perfect Spy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. More
The Search for Modern China
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction... More
the CLOUD that fell from the sky
Las Vegas: Tigrefou Editions, 2018. Francis George (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author and photographer. ** Please note additional shipping charges for this over-sized, heavy item. **. In 2015, Judy Choi discovered in a journal the poems of her 15-year old niece, Phoenix. When she first read her... More
Chinese Civilization
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1957. Third Printing. Hardcover. More
Remembrance of Things Past (Volume One): Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way
New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover (cloth). Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. A translation of the Seven-Volume Work A' la Recherche du Temps Perdu. More
