Law and Society in Traditional China
Westport: Hyperion Press, 1979. Hardcover. Reprint. Cloth, good copy, ink-notes to a few pages, no dust jacket. Uncommon.
China
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 221pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has faint sun toning and wear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of shelfwear.
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Paperback. Wraps, about fine. 219 pp.
China's Changing Constitution (Reprinted from The China Quarterly, December 1978) [Harvard Law School, Studies in East Asian Law--China: No. 27]
Cambridge: Harvard Law School, 1978. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild wear to wraps, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction; Harvard Studies in East Asian Law, 2
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, no dust jacket.
Kinship, Contract, Community, and State - Anthropological Perspectives on China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Paperback. Softcover. c.2005. 8vo. 359pp. Fine.
Sishu History, Supplementary Notes to the Four Books, 8 volumes
Ca. 1920, wrapsm, 8 inches tall, very good, some tanning, housed in worn folding chemise. Notes on the Confucian Texts.
When Heroes Pass Away: The Invention of a Chinese Communist Pantheon
Lanham: University Press of America, 1997. First printing. Paperback. Signed first edition, 1997. Softcover, 197 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, owner's name-stamps on the titlepage and top edge. Nice association copy, signed and inscribed on the titlepage by the author to Leonard Plotnicov (whom the author thanks on.....
A String of Chinese Peach-Stones
London: Charles H. Kelly, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1895, hardcover with gilt stamped black cloth boards, octavo, 479pp., frontispiece and one other illustration in color, otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild rubbing and edgewear to boards, handsome gilt titles and decorations to boards, binding just tender.....
The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1990, hardcover with silver and blue stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, 204pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild rubbing to boards and wear to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good dust jacket, price written in crayon on the front flap, discoloration and wear to the dust jacket.
What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Paperback. Reprint. Wraps, clean unmarked text, near fine copy.
The Capital Question of China
London: Macmillan, 1932. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, light wear, light shallow loss at spine bottom, contents very good, a few pages with small pen marks & lines, with folding maps at rear, spottiness and soil to top edge of text block. 322 pp.....
The Capital Question of China
London: Macmillan, 1932. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, light foxing and scattered spottiness to edges of text block. 322 pp, folding maps.
Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild sun to spine, front flap hinge gently worn.
The War Tiger or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1879. Hardcover. Later edition, 8vo, decorated green cloth, very good, light wear to binding, contents very good, hinges tight. 337 pp.
Primitive Revolutionaries of China: A Study of Secret Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century
Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Pr. 1977. First English edition. Hardcover. 1977. First English edition. Hardcover, 254 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Sunning to spine of DJ; fading to rear panel of DJ. Contents clean and unmarked.
The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 235pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has bump to top corners that echoes throughout text block, binding tight, text clean with a few tiny red ink marks in margins. DJ has rubbing and toning, edgewear.
The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism; Studies in Oriental Culture, Number 10; Conference on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Thought
New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some discoloration and wear to the book's covers.
The Long March: A Book on China
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1958. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, very good copy in good price-clipped dust jacket, offsetting to the endpapers, minor soiling and wear to the edges of the covers, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, wear to the dust jacket.....
Le Yi-King Traduit d'Apres les Interpretes Chinois avec La Version Mandchoue
Paris: E. Leroux, 1897. Hardcover. 1897. de Harlez's French translation from the Chinese original. 220 pp. Good. Cloth tape spine with embossed boards. Underlining in pink pencil (non-erasable) to approx. 50 pages; other light penciling throughout in regular lead. Previous owner's pencil notes to front blank. Rare. OCLC locates only.....
Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain, Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods; Vol. 1; Handbook of Oriental Studies / Handbuch der Orientalistik / HdO
Leiden: Brill, 2010. First printing. Hardcover. Volume one only. First edition, 2010. Hardcover, 404 pp., illustrated in color, Very Good+ copy, pencil-notes throughout, a couple of marker swipes to bottom edge, no dust jacket. Uncommon book.
Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain, Volume Two: A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities; Vol. 2; Handbook of Oriental Studies / Handbuch der Orientalistik / HdO
Leiden: Brill, 2010. First printing. Hardcover. Volume two only. First edition, 2010. Hardcover, 1060 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, slight lean to the book, no dust jacket. Uncommon book.
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, no dust jacket.
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 251pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome wrap and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, feels unread. No DJ.