Honolulu: Maclean Collection / University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. Hardcover. 123p., profuse color reproductions with extensive captioning in running texts; oblong hardbound in 10x11.5 inch pale grey openweave boards titled in silverfoil and in blind. A lovely copy of one of the loveliest map collections we have seen; 18th and..... More
Cat.No: 264628
San Francisco: Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee, 1975. Single issue of the journal, in tabloid newspaper format, 32 pages, paper toned, "Against Opportunism-MLOC on the CPUSA" stamped in red ink on front cover, edgeworn. May be reprint of first issue as it includes ad for first three issues. Theme: Against Opportunism. More
Cat.No: 264705
Chicago: Communist Labor Party, 1975. 40p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, paper toned. More
Cat.No: 264704
n.p. [1940]. Four-page leaflet, ex-library with rubberstamp and penned notation; fold-creased, closed edge tear. Critique of US policy towards Japan, by an English professor in Tokyo. Laments the 1924 Immigration Act for its discrimination against the Japanese, and complains that American meddling in Japan's "strenuous undertaking of restoring order and..... More
Cat.No: 264702
Lincoln, Nebraska: Charles W. Phillips, 1942. 4p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, last page loose but present; three holes punched at left, handwritten notes on cover sheet. "Peek knows! Seditious? No! Revolt stuff!" This issue almost entirely devoted to reprinting a memorandum by Peek, "The drive for a new..... More
Cat.No: 264695
Pasir Panjang, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. xvii, 270 pages, paperback, very good. "This study deals with the history of Chinese settlement on Bangka, Indonesia's "tin island", from its beginnings in the early 18th century to the present. The distinctively Chinese organization of raw-material production, the importation of..... More
Cat.No: 264694
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1959. 145p., hardcover, in an edgeworn dustjacket, private ownership stamp on last page. More
Cat.No: 264693
[London?]: Phoenix Press, 1996. Pamphlet. [32p.], wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition, 5.75x8.25 inches. O'Hara, an independent British leftist attacks the British anti-fascist publication Searchlight as "being a state sub-contractor" More
Cat.No: 264690
San Francisco: the newspaper, 1970. 8p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned. Cover story on domestic violence. More
Cat.No: 264685
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xxiii, 169p., plus 162 appended plates (b&w, from 1 to 4 per page). Hardbound in 11.2x8.6 inch green buckram boards spine-titled gilt and enclosed in the glossy green dust jacket. Book is perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, while the dj is..... More
Cat.No: 264683
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Hardcover. x, 277p., cloth-covered boards, illus., one map, corners bumped else very good condition in an unclipped, slightly yellowed dj. More
Cat.No: 264680
Colombo, Ceylon: The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, 1963. Paperback. 122, xvp., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled, top corner bumped, old bookstore sticker on half-title else good condition. More
Cat.No: 264678
[Paris]: Maisonneuve & Larose / École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1996. Paperback. 261p. + [16]p. of illustrations and maps, wraps, 6.25x9.5 inches, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Text in French. Collection "Pérégrinations asiatiques" More
Cat.No: 264677
Bethesda MD: Decatur Press, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. illustrated with folded maps bound in (well-designed modern maps), hardbound in 9x6 inch blue cloth boards spine- and cover-titled gilt; old bookstore sticker on free front endpaper else very good later printing. More
Cat.No: 264676
Philadelphia: Recon Publications, 1975. 23p., 5.5x8.5 inches, staplebound wraps, very good. Anti-military newsletter; this issue devoted to coverage of organizing within the militaries of various foreign countries (parallel to the GI movement in the US). More
Cat.No: 264675
Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2002. Paperback. Unpaginated, stiff wraps with illustrated plastic dj, color illustrations, very good condition, with the CD laid in as issued. More
Cat.No: 264674
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Hardcover. x-v, 274p., blue boards, preface, notes on romanization, bibliography, very good in like dj, slight ben at corners. Hawai'i Studies on Korea. More
Cat.No: 264670
New York: Poseidon Press, 1990. Paperback. [vii] 276p., preface to the second edition, explanation, near-fine first printing of the trade paperback reissue in pictorial wraps. The original 1932 hardback was Young 6. A journal about the six months Ackerley spent as a personal secreatry & companion to the Maharajah of..... More
Cat.No: 264668
New York: Poseidon Press, 1989. Paperback. 158p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The 1960 edition was Young 11*. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. Cover depicts Bates, Oldman and "Evie" the Alsatian. More
Cat.No: 264666
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 1954. Hardcover. xii, 220, foward, introduction, includes some Korean text, bit soiled boards with some wear at spine extremities, Previous owner's name near top of front pastedown endpaper, else very good. No dust jacket. "From the Introduction: Purpose of this Guide is to..... More
Cat.No: 264664
New York: Norton, [1976?]. Hardcover. 342p., good first printing stated of this Norton reissue of the 1946 Doubleday novel, in quarter-cloth boards and price-clippedand sunned dj. Reissue of Sarton's second novel originally published in 1946. No gay or lesbian content. More
Cat.No: 264661
Beirut: NEEBII, 1973. Paperback. 262p., cover and rear wrap worn, chipped, Significant staining, especially to top page edges and along spine. slighty bumped and with a book store stamp on the rear wrap, a reading copy. More
Cat.No: 264658
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1968. Hardcover. 189p., illustrated with b&w plates from photos, mild wear else very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth boards and unclipped lightly edgeworn dj. Autobiography. Grier C***. More
Cat.No: 264657
Hong Kong: Man Wah, 1968. 80p., bound in traditional Asian format, accordion-fold with wrap-around case, very good; illustrated with b&w line drawings by David Bibel. Inscribed by the author. The author, who came to San Francisco at the age of 12, was a prominent fixture in the local Yiddish theater..... More
Cat.No: 264655
Buenos Aires: Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1948. 253p., hardcover, author's name added in white at top of spine, textblock edges have rubberstamps of a Jewish community library in Los Angeles. Poylishe Yidntum, bd. 40. Autobiography of the anarchist emigre from Poland who had been active in Canada. More
Cat.No: 264654
