Dragon pink on old white
New York: Marzani & Munsell, Publishers, 1963. Hardcover. 224p., first edition, very good condition; dj faded on spine and edges with a 1.75 inch closed tear on the rear panel. More
Cat.No: 36883
New York: Marzani & Munsell, Publishers, 1963. Hardcover. 224p., first edition, very good condition; dj faded on spine and edges with a 1.75 inch closed tear on the rear panel. More
Cat.No: 36883
New York: Marzani & Munsell, Publishers, 1963. Paperback. 224p., b&w illus., wraps, lightly worn else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 40767
New York: Macmillan, 1946. Hardcover. x, 236p., illus., very good second printing. No dust jacket. Booker, an American journalist, and her family were living in Shanghai when Japan invaded in 1937. Booker and her children were able to flee, but her husband, Potter, was captured and kept in an internment..... More
Cat.No: 318808
London: Privately Printed, 1976. Paperback. 147p., "one hundred copies printed for private distribution", a handsome expensive production, softbound in 10x7 inch blank wraps enclosed in a plain printed dust-jacket, illustrated by two fullpage photoportraits (well-reproduced), presswork on laid-lined paperstock. Cover is marred with a long sprinkle of red-ink dots (it..... More
Cat.No: 289369
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1956. Hardcover. xi, 374p., photoillustrations from a dozen Asian countries, hardbound first edition in dark blue cloth boards with red cloth backstrip gilt and black, nicely designed book in very good shape and enclosed in the dust jacket. Dust jacket is edgeworn with short..... More
Cat.No: 298290
New York: G. Schirmer, 1919. Sheet_music. 3p., sheet music with pictorial wraps featuring the actress Fay Bainter in stereotyped Chinese drag as "Ming Toy." Very good condition. "Sing song, sing song, so Hop Toy / Allee same like China boy, / But he sellee girl with joy: Pity poor Ming..... More
Cat.No: 193700
[Beloit, Wisconsin]: the Wright Museum of Art, 1989. Staplebound. [16p.], staplebound exhibition catalog, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Light handling wear to wraps, else very good. More
Cat.No: 288608
Peiping: H. Vetch, 1936. xi, 352 pages, hardcover, light shelfwear, spine ends rubbed, very good. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 263629
Peiping: The North China Union Language School, 1929. vii, 172 pages, hardcover, very good, in original dustjacket with minor edgewear. More
Cat.No: 240659
Peking: Hneri Vetch, 1938. xvi, 102p., 45 black and white plates interspered through the text; cloth-covered boards lightly shelfworn, with some fading to the spine. Stated limitation of 650 copies. Discussion of the fine works produced in Jiangxi province at the famous site known in modern pinyin as Jingdezhen. More
Cat.No: 263427
Singapore: Graham Brash, 1989. Hardcover. 29p., slender hardcover, very good. Adapted from a 1930 work, with color reproductions of Chinese paintings depicting the festivities. More
Cat.No: 264100
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1922. xvi, 571 pages, hardcover; second edition, revised and enlarged. Spine ends worn. Ownership signature of Mary E. Feely in Shanghai, 1930. The fold-out map at the rear has a closed tear near its attachment to the binding, but is otherwise intact. Front free endpaper has..... More
Cat.No: 263829
Calgary, Alberta: Konsequential Studios, 2004-2005. Pamphlet. Four issues of the comic, a complete run for the period between August 2004 and August 2005. Issues present are Nos. 2-5. 44, 44, 42, and 38p. respectively, stapled wraps, 6.5x10 inches, very good condition. No. 2 is the second printing, all others are..... More
Cat.No: 265911
Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1992. 299p. plus 100 poorly reproduced illustrations; dissertation, very good. Includes both volumes 1 and 2. More
Cat.No: 237395
New York: The Communist, 1942. Magazine. pp. 99-192, a few small rust stains else very good in wraps. Includes James Allen on "The Far Eastern Front in the war against the Axis," articles by William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis, and more. More
Cat.No: 172971
New York: The Communist, 1942. Magazine. pp. 675-768, spine toned, small stain on rear wrap, else very good condition. Contributors include Earl Browder and William Z. Foster. Also includes a statement by the Central Committee of the CP of China. More
Cat.No: 230495
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1910. Total of 1.476 pages in eight volumes, the last volume including an index to the whole series. 10.75 x 8 inch boards in green buckram with gilt titles, gilt edges. Quite a sound and good looking set. Two later volumes, on Alaska and India, were..... More
Cat.No: 230135
Austin: University of Texas. African and Afro-American Studies & Research Center, 1975. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 9x6 inches landscape format, very good condition. The South African American poet, best known for his antiapartheid activities, was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. More
Cat.No: 87792
London: Britain-China Friendship Association, 1959. Pamphlet. 34p., 8.5x5.5 inch staplebound red wraps; a bit edgeworn and handled, with a small paint fleck on front wrap, rear wrap unevenly toned. More
Cat.No: 63362
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Publications, 1966. Hardcover. xiii, 171p., original cloth boards; pictorial dust jacket somewhat soiled from rubbing, price-clipped, small bookseller plate on endpaper, a speck of foxing on top-edge of text block, else very good. More
Cat.No: 296665
London: Methuen, 1936. Magazine. 32p., 5.75x8.75 inches, illustrated with b&w photogravures, wraps lightly worn, small splash stain on front wrap, staples rusted else very good literary review in green art deco stapled wraps. Pearl Buck on (what else?) China, Sacha Guitry reviews a play he saw 33 years earlier, photo..... More
Cat.No: 184628
Hong Kong: Paolin Agency, 1963. Paperback. [24p.] paperback booklet, bound with thread in traditional format, ownership signature on title page, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 308073
Vancouver, BC: Annie Wong Art Foundation, Western Front Society, [1998]. Paperback. 87p., wraps, illustrations (some color), maps, 9x12.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 162961
n.p. n.pub. 1958. Three volumes in one, 181, 201, 164p., plus indices; pirated hardcover reprint of the classic text, spine somewhat sun-faded. More
Cat.No: 263757
Boston: GCN, 1978. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, news, opinion, articles, events, ads, photos, services and resources. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment. Cover stories and photo of Harvey Milk. Also: Raid on Montreal Bar. China's View On Gay People. More
Cat.No: 315675