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SOO THAH : a tale of the making of the Karen Nation

By: Alonzo Bunker; Henry Clay Mabie

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London & Edinburgh, Fleming & Revell,: 1902

Seller ID: 112555653

Binding: Hard Cover

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,
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VILLAGE LIFE IN CHINA : a study in sociology.

By: Arthur Henderson Smith

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell Company: 1899

Seller ID: 112557910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

green, gilt, pict. cloth cover and spine, 360 pages, (8pp of adverts) frontispiece, plates, slight tone to spine, light edge wear, a sound, clean copy.
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THE ASAHI GRAPH; A Weekly Japanese Photo Journal; Nov. 21, 1928

By: Asahi Shimbun Co. Ltd.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Tokyo & Osaka, Asahi Shimbun Co. Ltd.: 1928

Seller ID: 1125346

Binding: Paperbound

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...
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DISCOVERIES IN THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum

By: Austen Henry Layard; A R George

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2011

Seller ID: 112556092

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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THE CHINA MODEL : political meritocracy and the limits of Democracy

By: Bell, Daniel A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford, Princeton University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 11255959

ISBN: 0691166455

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

black cloth, gilt spine, xii, 318 pages, bibliography, index, CONTENTS: Acknowledgments ix Introduction, Chapter 1 Is Democracy the Least Bad Political System? Chapter 2 On the Selection of Good Leaders in a Political Meritocracy ; Chapter 3 What's Wrong with Political Meritocracy; Chapter 4 Three Models of Democratic Meritocracy ; Concluding Thoughts: Realizing the China Model; Notes 199 Selected Bibliography ; Index ."Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatl...
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SECRET SOCIETIES IN CHINA in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries

By: Chesneaux, Jean

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor,, University of Michigan Press: 1971

Seller ID: 1125196

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The fire ox and other Years

By: Cutting C Suydam

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 11256118

Binding: Had Cover

Condition: Very Good

blue cloth, gilt cover and spine, xviii, 393 pages, 59 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), maps , Includes indexes., spine of d.j darkened, edge wear to d.j. in protective mylar,[The author's account of his travels in Far Eastern lands. With plates and maps.].CONTENTS: Green paradise in Turkestan -- The head-hunters of Assam -- China's southwest back door -- Royal jubilee in Nepal -- Cheetah hunting -- Forbidden cities of Tibet -- The Andaman islands -- Celebes and the elusive anoa -- Inhospitable Galapagos -- The Alps of Upper Burma -- Ethiopia: southern journey -- Ethiopia: nort...
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MANILA, 1900-1941: Social Change in a Late Colonial Metropolis

By: Daniel F. Doeppers

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New Haven, Conn, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies: 1984

Seller ID: 1125522

ISBN: 0938692062

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

printed paper wraps, 194 pages :frontis. map, illustrations, Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies), no. 27.
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THE HANDBOOK OF MARKS ON CHINESE CERAMICS

By: Davidson Gerald

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Han - Shan Tang Books: 1994

Seller ID: 11256178

ISBN: 0906610206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

blue buckram, gilt cover and spine, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), ribbon marker, Includes index, as new, Information on "origins and development of the Chinese written language" precedes the extensive catalog of marks, including marks in regular kaishu script, marks in zhuanshu seal scripts, symbols used as marks, directory of marks, and list of potters. much sought after reference
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The Adventure of Japanese Photography 1860 - 1890

By: Delank Claudia; Phillip March

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag: 2002

Seller ID: 112557045

ISBN: 3933257220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

pict, hard cover, 144 pages : color illustrations. very good cond., Text in English and German. Includes bibliographical references
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THE PERSIAN CARPET; a survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia.

By: Edwards, A. Cecil

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co.Ltd: 1967

Seller ID: 1125042

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

red gilt decorated cloth, pp., xvi, 384,nearly 400 illustrations (some color) portraits, maps, first published in 1953, ink notation on front free endpaper, minor soil to d.j. a sound, tight copy. Edwards was an authority on the subject having been in the carpet trade from 1900 to 1947.The standard text on the subject. Size: Folio
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JAPANESE CIVILIZATION : a comparative View

By: Eisenstadt; S N

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press;: 1996

Seller ID: 112555734

ISBN: 0226195570

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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IN EXCELSIS; The Mission of Jose P. Rizal, Humanist and Philippine National Hero -

By: Felice Sta Mari´a

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Makati City, Philippines, Studio 5 Designs: 1996

Seller ID: 1125511

ISBN: 9719135336

Binding: Hardcover

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
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THE BEAR WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO; And the Island of Karafuto (Saghalin), The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo;

By: Greey, Edward;

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Boston,, Lee and Shepard,: 1884

Seller ID: 1125088

Binding: Hard Cover

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
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Turkey & The Caucasus; Catalogues No. 125 & 127 ,

By: Hall Anthony C

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Twickenham, Middlesex, Anthony C Hall:

Seller ID: 11255952

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

2 catalogue, n.d. (1989) Printed paper wraps, Catalogue 125, 37 pages: Catalogue 127, 53 pags, in very good condition specialty offerings on Turkey & The Caucasus; postage wil be reduced
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HISTORIANS OF SOUTH EAST ASIA

By: Hall D G E

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 1124660

Binding: Hard Cover

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
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THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTAH

By: Ibn Batuta; Tim Mackintosh-Smith; Tahir Shah; Julie Snook; Folio Society

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2012

Seller ID: 112556086

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Japanese literature & Language

By: Jerrold G. Stanoff

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Jerrold G. Stanoff: 1976

Seller ID: 112557341

Binding: Paperbound

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.
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PHILIPPINE PICTURE POSTCARDS, 1900-1920

By: Jonathan Best

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Makati, Metro Manila, Bookmark: 1994

Seller ID: 1125502

ISBN: 971 569 140 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

green cloth, 119 pages, illustrated throughout, Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119). clean, bright copy
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A PHILIPPINE ALBUM : American era photographs, 1900-1930

By: Jonathan Best

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Makati City, Philippines, Bookmark: 1998

Seller ID: 1125514

ISBN: 9715693008

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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