The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China
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.
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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644: Volume I, A-L (This Volume ONLY)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First volume ONLY. 1976. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in grey cloth, dust jacket. 1022pp. illustrated. Very good in good dust jacket. Chipping, several perforations to dj extremities, tape repair to dj verso. Dust jacket in worn but mostly complete, unclipped, and.....
Indiscreet Letters from Peking
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908. Hardcover. Early Printing. c.1908. Hardcover. red cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 447pp. Very Good, Light rubbing at spine-ends, spine mildly darkened, light soiling to boards.
Yin Jiaqi and China's Struggle for Democracy
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.
Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking: From the 16th to the 20th century
London: Heinemann, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 1914, presumed First Edition (there is no date on the title page, but there are also no mentions of additional printings. Hardcover, original rust cloth with gilt design. 531 pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Good. Cloth rubbed with some discoloration; corners and spine ends.....
Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking
Taipei: Ch'eng Wen, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover, 531 pp. Good. Soiling to covers. Tearing to pages 49-54.
China's Economic Policies, Theories & Reforms Since 1949
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.
The B.C.I. Companion to China: A Phrasebook (La Conversazione Del Mercante in Cina)
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.
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2004. Cloth hardcover, 482 pp., clean unmarked copy, Near Fine copy, black marker swipe to bottom page-edges.
New Faces of China
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.
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
New York: Free Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 1996 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. Condition rates as Fine, in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Folk Religion in an Urban Setting, A Study of Hakka Villagers in Transition
Hong Kong: Christian Study Centre, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 1969. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 167pp. with one folding chart. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket scuffed, perforation to rear dj panel. Edges and endpapers foxed. Contents unmarked.
Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950
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...
Dictionary of Chinese Law and Government: Chinese-English
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.
Something Lighter - inscribed copy?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1924). First American edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth, good copy, wear and soil to cloth, contents clean. With bookplate of an Esther Marhofer, and an inscription from a "Johnnie" that seems proprietarial enough in tone to merit consideration as being from Bland himself: "To one who has always.....
Stories of China's Reform and Opening-Up
Beijing: The Story of China Publishing Co., 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Deluxe edition, 2004. Hardcover porfolio with clasps housing a softcover book and many loose sheets, heavily illustrated (in color), 100 pp. + over 100 folding plates, clean unmarked text, Near Fine contents in Good slipcase, minor wear to covers.....
Dragon Pink on Old White
New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1963. Paperback. Inscribed by Bonosky! Paperback, 1963, octavo, 224pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with toning and rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout, with mild foxing and soil to edges of textblock. No DJ.
Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of Its Chief Places of Interest
London: T. Werner Laurie, no date. Second revised edition. Hardcover. Second revised edition, no date (ca. 1922), hardcover with decorative orange cloth boards, octavo, 523pp., illustrated in b&w + fold out maps. Book VG with edgewear to spine ends and corners, spine head mildly chipped, rubbing, binding mostly tight, inner.....
Report on the G. Weidman Groff Collection
University Park: Penn State Univ. 1961. Paperback. 1961, Softcover, spiral binding. 510 pp. Near Fine copy, large 4to. Clean and unmarked text; sound binding; light sunning to covers.
Land Utilization in China: A Study of 16,786 Farms in 168 Localities, and 38,256 Farm Families in Twenty-Two Provinces in China, 1929-1933
New York: The Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, Inc., 1956. Reprint. Paperback. Reprint, 1956, paperback, octavo, 494pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with toning and creasing to spine, mild wear to edges of wrap, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout.....
Chinese Customs & Creeds: Volume 1
Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, 1972. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing, 1972. Hardcover edition of volume I only, in a dust jacket, 180 pp. + index. A very good + copy in a very good jacket.
Chinese Art, Complete in Two Volumes
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924. Later printing. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 1924. Later printing. Hardcover, 8vo. in green cloth. 142, 158pp. frontis in each, illustrated. Very good. Boards scuffed, edges foxed. Contents clean and unmarked. 2vo.
Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1978. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 553 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket, discoloration to the outer pages, some soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, dust jacket with rubbing and wear including creasing.....
C. C. Wang's Painting and Calligraphy Works
Shanghai: Shanghai shu hua chu ban she, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 2003, First Edition. Text in English and Chinese. Hardcover, folio. 96 plates. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with light creasing. Clean contents. This is a large book (10 x 15.5 inches) and may require extra postage.....
Mao and the Chinese Revolution; With Thirty-Seven Poems by Mao Tse Tung Translated from the Chinese by Michael Bullock and Jerome Ch'En
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1965. Cloth hardcover, 419 pp., Very Good copy, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, some erasable pencil-notes to the text, some soiling or discoloration to the covers, no dust jacket.