![Item #H40929 1881 "Painting Book" ["Plum Blossoms"?] woodcuts of birds & nature, Chinese language...](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/h40929.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740537489)
Tokyo & Kyoto: 1881. Wraps. 9.75 x 6.5 inches, softcover, very good, with short preface and 42 pages of woodcuts, studies mainly of birds, including birds of prey, ducks, herons and crane, owls, peacocks, pheasants, flycatchers, etc. Printed in Japan in Meiji 14, 1881.
Nantou City, Taiwan: 2001. Wraps. 11.5 x 8.25 inches, softcover, fine. 88 pp, mainly examples of Chinese calligraphy, with some color photos of the participants, etc. In Chinese.
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1984. Wraps. Small quarto, 10.5 x 9 inches, softcover, very good. 168 pp, illustrated, much in color. An exhibit of Chinese ceramic figures that was shown at museums in Nagoya, Fukuoka, Kyoto and Tokyo, organized by the National Museum in Tokyo. Text in Japanese.
Beijing: Youth Publishing House, 1950. Paperback. Second printing from June, 1950. Wraps, 7 x 5 inches, very good, light wear and soil. In Chinese. 47 pp. One of a series of books for junior high school Chinese students, this one focused on Soviet era Communist Leninist Youth League activities and.....
Beijing: Shu mu wen xian chu ban she : Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, cloth in slipcase, about fine, slipcase slightly rubbed and used; 632 pp, text in Chinese. There are more than 15,000 stones, and the Buddhist scriptures.....
Group of 6 photos, 5 x 4" all with various conditional problems (worm holes, abrasions, residue on versos from being removed from an album). These date probably from Feb. 1902 -- when the British war sloop Algerine was mud-docked at Yingkou. Captioned in ink below each photo: 1) Chinese celebrating.....
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Honour Publishing Co., 1990s. Wraps. 4 volumes, each book in stiff softcover, 6.4 x 4.5 inches, fine condition, with a total of 128 postcards, showing images dating from 1830 to the 1990s. Rare in the trade and institutions, especially as a complete set.
![Item #H34674 Paper-cuts of Folks [Yuxian] County, China: Facial Makeup of Peking Opera](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/h34674.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702016305)
(Beijing): NP, Ca. 2000. Hardcover. Book measures 11.5 x 8.5 inches, matte red boards, housed in stiff folding slipcase; book fine, slipcase very good with minimal wear at extremities, text in Chinese and English, with 12 original papercuts in multiple colors housed loosely under mylar guards with facing texts --.....
Zhengding Xian: Linji Chan Si, 1997. Paperback. Tall 8vo, wraps, about 100 pp, light wear, handsome printing. Text in Chinese. Uncommon.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Beige cloth boards, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Tokyo: Iwanami, 1994. Hardcover. Limp leatherette in slipcase, light wear and soil. 193, 1313 pp.
Tunisia: 1962. Second edition. Paperback. Pictorial wraps, very good, light wear, dustiness, tanning. The author was a member of the Tunisian Constitutional Party and seeks to apply the lessons of the Maoist revolution to contemporary Middle Eastern politics. 282 pp, index.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. 1991 Black cloth 4to, 266pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 382pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing and toning to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991. First printing. Paperback. First printing, 1991, paperback, octavo, 201pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild rubbing and wear to wrap, binding tight, previous owner's signature to inside of front panel, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Taipei: Ch'eng Wen, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover, 531 pp. Good. Soiling to covers. Tearing to pages 49-54.
Shanghai, China: Fudan University Press, 1991. Paperback. Paperback, 1991, octavo, 562pp., not illustrated. Book VG with closed tear taped shut at rear bottom panel, rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Milano: Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1983. First edition. Paperback. 1983. Second edition. Paperback, 960 pp. Very good. Faint age-toning to pages, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked. Text in Chinese, Italian and English.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Faint shelfwear to book, with contents clean and unmarked.
Tokyo: Nichiosha, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, folio, 343pp., illustrated in b&w, errata sheet laid in. Book shows hint of wear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ shows mild shelfwear, rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE.....
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barnstone on the half-title page. First edition, 1973. Quarto, hardcover, unpaginated, heavily illustrated, Very Good copy, rubbing and wear along the edges of the covers.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1992. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 326 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, owner's signature on the front pastedown, light wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector...
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 1981. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 822pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edge wear to dust jacket. Edges scuffed. Internally unmarked.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1910. First American Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, publisher's yellow cloth stamped in red, very good, light general surface soil, probably erasable, to covers. 525 pp, illustrated, double page map of Peking. Much on the Boxer Rebellion.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 615pp., not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text has some ink underlining and marginal marks scattered throughout, with paperclip indentations to top edges of some pages. DJ rubbed.....