Les Portugais au Tibet: Les premières relations jésuites (1624-1635)
Paris: Chandeigne, 1996. Paperback. 383p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good first edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 269969
Paris: Chandeigne, 1996. Paperback. 383p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good first edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 269969
San Francisco: Synthesis Publications / Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis, 1986. Paperback. 238, [8]p., 5.75x9 inches, wraps lightly soiled and stained, a few small stains to top and bottom edges of textblock, else very good first edition trade paperback journal in printed white and green wraps..... More
Cat.No: 280660
Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1994. Paperback. 80p., wraps, profusely illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good condition. Revised edition of "The Pillow Book." More
Cat.No: 319314
N. pl. n. pub. n. d. Hardcover. xxxi, 343p. and xxiv, 502p., #163 of 500 copies reprinted from the enlarged 1898 edition, facsimile title pages from the Carrington edition, very good in quarter-cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles, corners lightly bumped and worn. More
Cat.No: 162817
Geneva: Collections Baur, 1989. Paperback. 82p., very good in wraps. Photographs of items from collection with bilingual captions. More
Cat.No: 142362
Cambridge: The Left Group, Cambridge University, Labour Club, [1961?]. Pamphlet. 34p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 177015
London: Burns & Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, 1962. Hardcover. 389p., illustrated with a few lacklustre portraits and facsimiles; first British edition, hardbound in bright red cloth boards lettered silverfoil, and enclosed in the dustjacket, top edge tinted pink, very pretty. A nice copy all around: entirely sound, clean..... More
Cat.No: 279649
Moscow: NKIU, 1938. 69p., hardcover, pages toned, ownership signature of the American communist William Mandel on corner of front cover, text in Russian. "The crimes that make up the remnants of the tribal system." On the Central Asian regions in the purge period. More
Cat.No: 165168
Evanston, IL: William Earle, 1986. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, iv, 154p. + v, 144p., hardcover, titling in gilt, speckled edges; top-edge is slightly foxed, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 301332
Antwerpen / 'S-Gravenhage: De Sikkel / Martinus Nijhoff, 1946. Paperback. 127p., mostly text followed by a limited number of sketched diagrams explaining certain motifs, presswork on nice pulpy alkaline stock, softbound in 10x7.5 inch grey wraps printed in red and black. Textblock is cleanly and near-fine with most signatures unopened..... More
Cat.No: 297868
Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980. Paperback. 160p., plus appended publisher's menu, text reproduced from a typed ms, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch squareback wraps. Light bumping of corner-tips, large sticker scar to rear cover, a touch of dust-soil, within expect some shaky pencil underlines and brackets. An as-is, reading copy..... More
Cat.No: 260964
Los Angeles: the museum, 1984. Pamphlet. "Resource Packet" only. Eight fullpage color reproductions of less-common images plus introductory and terminal texts, plates on coated paperstock measuring 11x10 inches, texts same size, all items laid into the pocket of a handsomely-printed folder, which is edgeworn but still presentable. More
Cat.No: 230230
San Francisco: US/Vietnam Friendship Association, 1989. 8p., self-wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus., very good condition. Special issue marking the 14th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Also includes an article on Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea. More
Cat.No: 251267
San Francisco: US/Vietnam Friendship Association, 1990. 8p., self-wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus., pen mark on front wrap, a few small stains on rear wrap else very good condition. Cover story on Cambodia. More
Cat.No: 251268
London: Geoffrey Bles Limited Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. 93p., 4.5x6.25 inch cloth boards; bookplate on pastedown endpaper, some foxing on dust jacket and text block edges, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 310894
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. 326 p., very good hardcover in a lightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 167657
[Toronto]: Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter, 1951. Pamphlet. 7, [1]pp., illustration, wraps. 9 x 6 in. Anti-war speech from a Christian perspective. James Gareth Endicott was born in China; he quit the United Church of Canada in 1946 rather than submit to an ultimatum to modify public statements in support of..... More
Cat.No: 303583
New York :: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardcover. xiii, 375p., quarter-cloth boards; in very good condition in like dust jacket. From the library of Steve Doi, signed and inscribed to him by the author. More
Cat.No: 298489
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Hardcover. viii, 192p., illustrated with a few charts and a line map, hardbound in openweave black cloth spine-titled white, in dust jacket; a first edition. The casing is very slightly dished, textblock bears a remainder dot on bottom edge, a very good copy..... More
Cat.No: 148356
Washington DC, VA :: White Plains, NY: East Timor Action Network / U.S., 1998-2003. Newsletter. Six issues of the biannual newsletter 8.5x11 inch staplebound wraps, average of 11 pages each; slight edgewear and handling, else in very good condition. Lot includes Vol. 3, no. 4 - Vol. 4, no. 1..... More
Cat.No: 286372
Boston / Tokyo: Houghton Mifflin Company / Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1965. Hardcover. xvi, 955p., "a complete and unabridged photo-offset reproduction of the latest American edition, specially published for sale in the Far East.. offered in the public interest at a great reduction in price". Hardbound, a handsome edition in..... More
Cat.No: 278064
Berlin: Reinhold Schletzer Verlag, 1979. 94p. + [44]p. of plates (black and white photos of rugs), wraps, 6 x 8.75 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Text in German. On the carpets of Central Asia. More
Cat.No: 255871
Taibei: National Palace Museum, 2008. Paperback. 127p., slender paperback, 8.25x11.75 inches, very good. Color photos of maps, with substantial English explanatory text as well as the predominant Chinese. More
Cat.No: 263772
Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Center, 1991. Paperback. viii, 101p., wraps, very good condition. Cover title: "Modernization vs. Militarization: Ethnic Conflict & Labour in Sri Lanka." More
Cat.No: 318821