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By: CHRISTIE'S [ Hong Kong Limited]
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Hong Kong, Christie's Hong Kong Limited: 1996
Edition: Nov 5, 1996
Seller ID: 18248
Condition: Near Fine
Christie's Auction catalog No 1147 featuring Fine Stamps and Covers of Hong Kong, China and Japan. Features the final portion of the collection of Hong Kong formed by Christopher D'Almada e Castro. 133pp, [17pp], profusely illustrated in color. Lots 2001 to 3203 [1200 Lots]. No Official Prices Realised, but, the original owner has noted the Sale Prices of some Lots. Otherwise, the catalog appears 'as new'. Unpacked weight, 524g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Canadian GST inclu... View more info
By: CHUEH, Kung and CHING, Yuan
Price: $18.50
Publisher: New York, Liberty Press: 1952
Edition: First Edition in English
Seller ID: 07293
Condition: Near Fine
First appearance in English of this great Chinese novel of the anti-Japanese conflict. Translated by Sha Po-Li. 300pp. Very clean copy with firm binding and virtually no wear to book. Dustjacket is very bright and clean with only very minor edge wear. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: York Beach, Maine, U.S.A., Weiser: 1993
Edition: Revised Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 046614
ISBN: 0877287961
Condition: About Fine
Important contribution to the understanding of the philosophy of the martial arts. Rev. ed. of: Wing chun. 1992. 128 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked interior excepting a tiny name in ink to the front endpapers. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Weight, 322g. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Peking, China Welfare Institute: 1967
Edition: Vol. XVI, No. 9
Seller ID: 049880
Condition: Near Fine
Single issue in English language with a wonderful photo cover of a scene from a revolutionary Peking Opera. Frontis photo of with two quotatuioin opposite. Many articles for those interested in the period of the Cultural Revolution. Several features on Shachiapang Revolutionary Symphony. 44pp, profusely photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Good production values. Scan available. Weight, 180g. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23096
ISBN: 0533013283
Condition: Fine
A retired missionary's account of living in China in the early 20th century. 121pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean copy with a sound binding. Nearly similar, unclipped, dustjacket. Weight, 300g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere within Canada is now approx US$15.00- up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate]. View more info
By: CLEARY, THOMAS
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Boston and London, Shambhala Publications: 2005
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 053091
ISBN: 1590302451
Condition: As New
Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary--translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy--the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners and mentality of this outlook remain embedded in their individual and collective consciousness. 131 pages ; 23 cm, An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, wit... View more info
By: COLLIE, Craig
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Portobello Books Ltd: 2011
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 040383
ISBN: 1846274419
Condition: As New
In early August 1945, the people of Nagasaki went about the usual struggle of their daily wartime existence. No-one could have imagined the horror of what was about to happen. Nagasaki follows ordinary people on the ground in the hours after the dropping of the bomb. xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Unpacked weight, 561g. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates r... View more info
By: COLLIER, Richard
Price: $9.50
Publisher: London, Collins: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 038494
Condition: Near Fine
An Account of the Indian Mutiny, 1857. 383pp, photo illustrated, endpaper maps. Bright, clean, unmarked interior, tight, square binding, no wear to cloth. Price-clipped dustjacket shows some edge wear and a small area of surface loss where a price sticker was removed on front panel. Weight, 560g. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Calcutta, Communist Party of India: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30027
Condition: VG+
124pp plus 39pp. Ting name-stamp to verso of front wrapper and name to ffep. Otherwise, unmarked. Tight, square binding, minor wear to spine. Clean wrappers. Weight, 160g. View more info
Price: $9.50
Publisher: USA, Castle Books: 1998
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 30540
ISBN: 0785809031
Condition: Fine
Presents Confucius' sayings, in 'I Ching order', on topics such as morality, behavior, business, diplomacy and spirituality. Translation of: 'Lun yu'. xii, 179 pages ; 22 cm. Bright,m clean, unmarked interior, still quite fresh. Tight, square binding, sound hinges, no weartop the boards. Very small black 'remainder' mark to the bottom edge. Unclipped dustjacket is Fine. Unpacked weight, 397g. View more info
By: CONGZHOU, Chen
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Shanghai, Tongji University Press:
Edition: CHINA GARDENS CHINESE
Seller ID: 26120
Condition: VG+
Essay on Chinese gardens with numerous, artist-drawn illustrations. Undated. English and Chinese text. Bright, clean copy. Small inked out name[?] to ffep otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding. Bright, clean illustrated wrappers. Weight, 430g. View more info
By: COOKE, Bill
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A., Kentucky Horse Park: 2000
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 10685
ISBN: 1564690717
Condition: Fine
The art of the horse in Chinese history. Catalog for an Exhibition mounted by the Kentucky Horse Park in 2000. 182 pages : illustrations, plates ; 29 cm. Superbly photographed in full color. BRight, clean copy. Gift inscription to the title page otherwise unmarked and quite fresh. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Near new. Weight, 982g. View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: 1965
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 042888
Condition: VG, or Better
An unabridged republication of Coomaraswamy's classic study of Indian art originally published in 1927. 295, cxxviii p. illus., maps. 24 cm. OCLC Number: 385402 . Overall, bright and clean. Ownership stamps to the inside of the front wrapper and to the ffep, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding. Spine shows a central crease. Minor delamination starting. Bright, clean wrappers. Weight, 850g. View more info
By: COPRA, P. N.; RAVINDRAN, T. K.: SUBRAHMANIAN, N.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Delhi, S. Chand & Co.: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 32605
Condition: VG+
Stand-alone, third volume of a three volume history of India South of the Vindhyas. 290pp, frontis map. Small ink stamp of the 'Consulate General of India, Vancouver', to the ffep, otherwise unmarked. Bright, clean interior. Sound, tight binding, no wear to hinges. Dustjacket, unclipped, has a small tape repair to head of spine and a very tiny lost chip at foot of same. Weight, 670g. View more info
By: CORR, Gerard H.
Price: $9.95
Publisher: New York, Schocken Books: 1974
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 10808
ISBN: 0-8052--3558-2
Condition: Fine
Story of the People's Liberation Army of Red China, from its beginnings in 1949, to 1974. 175pp, 54 photo illustrations. Bright, clean copy with a sound binding, unmarked. Dustjacket, without price-clip, hassome edge wear, tint margin tears etc. View more info
By: CORR, Gerard H.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Schocken Books: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30763
ISBN: 0805235582
Condition: About Fine
Campaigns and Politics of the Red Chinese Army, from 1949 to the early 1970s. Includes the Tibet Campaign [1950-1960] and the Korean War [1950-1953]. 175pp, illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding, no wear to cloth. Unclipped dustjacket shows only minor wear to ome edges. Weight, 480g. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan Episcopal Church: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27309
ISBN: 9579939756
Condition: Fine
A 'narrative of significant events and developments in the life of the independent diocese of Taiwan' [Episcopal]. 187pp, photo illustrated, index. Bright, clean copy, about 'as new'. Weight, 810g. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Delhi, Roli Books / Lustre Press: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 046216
ISBN: 8174368728
Condition: About 'As New'
A thoughtful photographic journey into the fascinating city of Pondicherry - the former French colony in India. Captures the essence of how the East meets the West today, in Pondicherry. Pondicherry is an extended photo essay, which has as its main focus, the photographer's perception and visual interpretation of the city of Pondicherry. The photographer journeys into the metaphorical and anthropological folds of the city, searching for a sense of "place" - his interpretation of a specific environment and how it's inhabited. . . With essays by Pascal Bruckner, Akash Kapur and Amin Jaf... View more info
Price: $8.95
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1981
Edition: First American Printing
Seller ID: 08058
ISBN: 0-03-059889-3
Condition: About Fine
Outlines the discovery of the First Emperor of China's Tomb. 208pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and in color. Very clean, bright copy with solid binding and unclipped dustjacket. Weight, 8 4g. View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Evans Brothers: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 037730
Condition: Fine
History of ancient China from the Old Stone Age down to the unification of China under the Emperor Shih-Huang-ti known as the Tiger of Ch'in, about 200 BC. 224 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Book is very bright and clean and is unmarked. Tight, square binding, no wear to the red cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is clean and complete but showing some edge-wear, short closed tears and the remains of a small price sticker. Weight, 580g. View more info
