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By: Alonzo Bunker; Henry Clay Mabie
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London & Edinburgh, Fleming & Revell,: 1902
Seller ID: 112555653
Condition: Very Good
red, pict. cloth, cover, dec. spine.,280 pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, light wear at corners else a bright, clean copy, small ink sig on front free endpaper, Bunker was for thirty years a resident among the Karens ; with an introduction by Henry C. Mabie ...a fine example of an American Trade binding, View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tokyo & Osaka, Asahi Shimbun Co. Ltd.: 1928
Seller ID: 1125346
Condition: Very Good
folio, 38 x 26.5 cm, 32 pages,stapled at spine, illustrated throughout with halftones from photographs, bilingual text English and Japanese, Numerous adverts, THE CORONATION OF EMPEROR HIROHITO Hirohito's father suffered from mental illness and died in 1925. From the early 20's Hirohito had been the unofficial emperor and finally on November, 10,1928 he was crowned emperor of Japan.Upwards of a million people filled the streets to winess the parades and celebrations. The traveling festivities took over two weeks and treked from Tokyo to Kyoto. Meticulous planning begining a year in advance co... View more info
By: Austen Henry Layard; A R George
Price: $70.00
Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2011
Seller ID: 112556092
Condition: Fine
contained in a slip case, xxiii, 633 pages, 26 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, in publishers' shrink wrap, "Originally published in two parts, by John Murray in 1853. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations." CONTENTS: Preface; 1. The trustees of the British Museum resume excavations at Nineveh; 2. The Lake of Wan; 3. Reception by the Yezidis; 4. State of the excavations on my return to Mosul; 5. Renewal of excavations at Kouyunjik; 6. Discovery of grand entrance to the Palace of Kouyunjik; 7. Road opened for removal of Win... View more info
By: Chesneaux, Jean
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor,, University of Michigan Press: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125196
Condition: Very Good
grey cloth, pp.,xii, 210 , illustrations,, CONTENTS: Introduction: From the Confucian Order to the Peoples China -- A Secret Society: The Triad -- A Few Other Societies -- The White Lotus / Pai Lien Hui -- The Eight Diagrams / Pa-Kua -- The Nein -- The Big Sword Society / Ta-tao-hui -- The Boxers / I Ho Chuan -- The Observance Society / Chai Li-hui -- The Vegetarians / Chai-chiao -- The Red Beards / Hung Hu-tzu -- The Red Spears -- The Association of Elder Brothers / Ko-lao-hui -- The Green Band / Ching-Pang -- The Little Sword Society / Hsiao-tao-hui -- The Golden Coins Society / Chin-chien... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New Haven, Conn, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies: 1984
Seller ID: 1125522
ISBN: 0938692062
Condition: Very Good
printed paper wraps, 194 pages :frontis. map, illustrations, Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies), no. 27. View more info
By: Delank Claudia; Phillip March
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 112557045
ISBN: 3933257220
Condition: Very Good
pict, hard cover, 144 pages : color illustrations. very good cond., Text in English and German. Includes bibliographical references View more info
By: Eisenstadt; S N
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press;: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 112555734
ISBN: 0226195570
Condition: Very Good
black cloth, gilt spine, xii, 581 pages, index, CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: The Enigma of Japan -- 2. The Meiji State and Modern Japanese Society -- 3. Modern and Contemporary Japan: Institutional Formations -- 4. Tribulations of Modern Japanese Society , 5. "Disharmony," Conflict, and Protest and Their Impact: Regulation, Control, and Responsiveness -- 6. The Political and Social System of Modern and Contemporary Japan: A Dynamic, Controlled, but Not Totalitarian Society -- 7. Feudalism in Japan -- 8. Urban Development and Autonomy in Medieval and Early Modern Japan -- 9. Tokugawa Stat... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Makati City, Philippines, Studio 5 Designs: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125511
ISBN: 9719135336
Condition: Fine
brown, gilt dec cover, gilt spine, 281 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (some color), color maps, CONTENTS: The prophecy -- A la juventud -- The call -- Rizal's travels -- Noli me tangere -- The crusade -- Sucesos de las islas Filipinas -- El filibusterismo -- The calm -- Himno a talisay -- The glory -- Mi ultimo adios -- Chronology of events in Rizal's life and the world -- Stamps -- Paperbills, coins & medals -- Postcards & memorabilia.. 1996 Natonal Book Award Winner for Biography and Design View more info
By: Greey, Edward;
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Boston,, Lee and Shepard,: 1884
Edition: First Edition,
Seller ID: 1125088
Condition: Poor
illustrated paper over boards,pp., xiii, 304, pictorial paper over boards, front cover, spine & rear cover, illustrated with over 180 illustrations,, covers designed and drawn by the authors, edges are worn, damage at top & bottom of spine , cracks in spine, covers dirty, front end paper detached, rear end paper missing, front hinge starting, A READING COPYcopy of an uncommon juvenile title. Contains much on the Ainu View more info
By: Hall D G E
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1124660
Condition: Very Good
maroon cloth, gilt spine, pp., viii, 342, Hall, D.G.E. (Daniel George Edward), 1891-1979, a volume in School of Oriental and African Studies.,University of London, light soil to d.j, spie of d.j toned, a tight, clean copy View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, London: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: TR 9813
Condition: Very Good
orig. blue cloth, pp., x, 246, illustrated, col. frontis., 3 full page color plates from water color sketches by the author, several /w/ plates, map, end-papers, spine a little darkened. Size: 8 Vo., View more info
By: Ibn Batuta; Tim Mackintosh-Smith; Tahir Shah; Julie Snook; Folio Society
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2012
Seller ID: 112556086
Condition: Fine
boxed, xxviii, 353 pages, 24 pages of plates : colour illustrations and maps.endpaper maps, a fine copy in a fine presentation case, "The Travels of Ibn Battutah, edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, was originally published by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, in 2002. Mackintosh-Smith abridged his edition from the translation by Professors Sir Hamilton Gibb and C.F. Beckingham, originally published by the Hakluyt Society in four volumes in 1958-94. The text of this edition follows that of the 2003 Picador edition, with minor emendations"--Title page ver... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Jerrold G. Stanoff: 1976
Seller ID: 112557341
Condition: Very Good
illustrated paper wraps, unpaginated, (approx. 30 pp) Catalogue 62, Plays, stories, haiku, fiction, geisha, proverbs, anghologies [sic], classic, dictionaries, Far Eastern bibliography, drama, tales, traditions, customs, legends, ghosts, prose, modern fiction, childrens. very good cond. View more info
By: Jonathan Best
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Makati, Metro Manila, Bookmark: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125502
ISBN: 971 569 140 4
Condition: Very Good
green cloth, 119 pages, illustrated throughout, Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119). clean, bright copy View more info
By: Jonathan Best
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Makati City, Philippines, Bookmark: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125514
ISBN: 9715693008
Condition: Fine
black cloth, gilt spine,247, [3] pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), A beautiful collection of Philippine images...the pictures have been slightly enlarged and reproduced in tones close to the original prints, in some cases hand coloring from the era has been preerved. View more info
By: Lewis E Gleeck
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Quezon City, New Day Publishers: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125504
ISBN: 9711004739
Condition: Very Good
pict. paper covers. vii, 429 pages : illustrations, clen, bright copy. Gleeck was a member of the US Foreign Service from 1940 to 1969. To the date of this book he had published thirteen books on the American experience in the Phillipines. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Rutland, Vt, C.E. Tuttle Co: 1986
Edition: Tenth Edition
Seller ID: 11255613
ISBN: 0804804230
Condition: Very Good
gilt dec. brown cloth, 245 pages : 145 illustrations (some color), pict. end papers, 66 page list of Netsuke Carvers, index. a very good copy in a very good d.j. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Dublin, James Duffy: 1854
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1125023
Condition: Very Good
panaled blue cloth, gilt spine,pp. x, (1). blank,1-295, (1) corrigenda; frontis. (map), slight trace of sticker at lower spine of frnt cover, light wear at corners, else a tight, clean copy. Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890. CONTENTS: The mother country of the Turks.--The descent of the Turks.--The conquest of the Turks.--The prospects of the Turks. View more info
By: Nick Joaquin
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Makati City, Bookmark: 1999
Seller ID: 1125505
ISBN: 971569313X
Condition: Fine
brown cloth, gilt cover and spine, 365 pages : illustrations, Joaquin, Manils's poet laureate wrote this history in 1990 and its first edition, (1990), was distributed exclusively to the city's schools. This beautifully produced gift edition brings ther work to the wider world. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries.: 1943
Seller ID: 1125276
Condition: Very Good
printed aperp wraps, 84 pages, illustrated, light soil to wraps, useful reference. Arnold Genthe was a German-born American photographer, best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people. View more info
