London: Heinemann (Afircan Writers Series), 1991. Angela J. Hogg (cover illustration). First Edition. Paperback. Set in Southern Africa, this powerful collection of short stories highlights Nadine Gordimer's outstanding ability to pierce the core of the human condition. Personal experiences are set against the turmoil of a violent world where the...
New York: The John Day Company, 1963. Hardcover (Cloth). Contents: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong...
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1951. Sydney Butchkes (jacket design). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Original cover price of $2.75 indicated on front jacket flat. Not price clipped. Rear of dust jacket contains laudatory blurbs from Isherwood, Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, August Derleth and Herschel Brickell. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding...
Northridge CA: Lord John Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. Hardcover.
New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2018. Paperback. The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A masterpiece of.....
Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum/Princeton University Press. 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Outsized. Heavy book; please note additional shipping charges. With contributions by Ja Xu, Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Jenny F. So, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Alain Thote, Jessica Rawson, Michael Nylan. Book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Treasures...
London: David Zwirner Books, 2016. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Publishing in conjunction with the exhibition: R. Crumb, Art & Beauty (David Zwirner, 24 Grafton Street, London, April 15-June 2, 2016). With an introduction by Paul Morris. One of America’s most celebrated cartoonists, Robert Crumb helped define...
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a handwritten dedication signed by author.
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, Univ. California, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. China Research Monograph 62. This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influences dispatched through the media...
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Paperback/Softcover. Staple Bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong between between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part one of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books...
San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1973. First Edition. First Printing (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. Published for an exhibition held at the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 16- Sept. 3, 1973.
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Number 49 in the the Chinese Research Monograph series, published by the Institute of East Asian Studies of the University of California.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1994. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A symposium of essays presented in honor of T. T. Ch'en and F. W. Mote on the occasion of their retirement from the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University. The participants and contributors are all renowned scholars in...
New York: State University of New York Press, 1985. Letitia Splain (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author.
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