Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. xvi, 197p., hardcover in dust jacket, 6.25x9.25 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 289502
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. xvi, 197p., hardcover in dust jacket, 6.25x9.25 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 289502
Manila: Commonwealth of the Philippines, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, 1950. Paperback. Three-volume set. 590p.+513p.+507p., paperback, 5.75x9 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs and drawings. Wraps toned with some light creasing, minor foxing to edges of text block, pinholes in p. 1-4 of volume 1, else very good. Technical Bulletin..... More
Cat.No: 289525
Honolulu: Ala Press, 2014. Paperback. 91p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Brown-Pereira's second collection, from a small press specializing in Pacific Islander literature. Brown-Pereira is a poet of mixed Cook Island Maori and Samoan descent. She served as a diplomat for the Cook Islands and is an activist against climate..... More
Cat.No: 287970
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Hardcover. 215p., cloth-covered boards, corners worn, small stain on rear endpapers, else good condition. No dust jacket. The Borzoi-Gyldendal Books. More
Cat.No: 297324
Independence MO / Lamoni IA: Herald Publishing House [reprint by same house], 1970 / 1915. Paperback. 383p., no illustrations whatsoever, else a reprint of the original 1915 version. Mild wear & tear to paper covers, clean and unmarked within, softbound in 7.5x5 inch wraps, a good (good-only) copy. This represents..... More
Cat.No: 299694
Pawtucket, RI: Elska Magazine, 2019. Paperback. [188p] 6.75x9.25 inches, erotic nude and semi-nude color photos of young gay men, stories, attractive homophile magazine in trade paperback format, pictorial color Frenchfold wraps. More
Cat.No: 242516
Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1995. Paperback. x, 163p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Wraps lightly shelfworn, else very good. More
Cat.No: 285854
Manila: Historical Conservation Society, 1990. Paperback. xvi, 440p., paperback, 6x9.25 inches. Crease on spine, else very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. General History of the Philippines, Part V, Vol. 4. More
Cat.No: 286708
Quezon City: Ateneo De Manila University Press, 1984. Paperback. xiv, 159p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Sticker scar on upper right corner of front cover, else very good. More
Cat.No: 286310
San Francisco: Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition, December 29, 1993. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides. Includes a background on the concerns, urgent action needed with actions to take and names and numbers of relevant people, open letter to copy or fax to people. More
Cat.No: 314864
London: Christie's, 2007. Hardcover. 348, 321p,, printed price list laid in with holograph info added. Plentiful color plates rendered clearly, numerous extraordinary maps, learned commentary by Christie staff. Catalogs a matched pair, each hardbound in openweave green cloth boards with large color onlay decoration, 10.7x8.2 inches. Corner-tips slightly bumped, otherwise..... More
Cat.No: 276217
New York: World Education, 1979. 81p., 8.5x11 inches, tables, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 159613
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, 348p., illus., very good condition in an unclipped and lightly shelfworn dust jacket with foxing on the verso. More
Cat.No: 297383
San Diego: Publishers Export Co., 1967. Paperback. 155p., lightly worn else good first edition PBO in camp pictorial wraps, cover by Corley. Gay pulp fiction by a Mississippi author. French Line FL11. World War II erotic gay novel set in the Pacific Theater. Color pictorial cover featuring Bald Eagle with..... More
Cat.No: 14316
Paris: the auction house, 2000-2005. Paperback. Each 10.5x8.3 inches, superior coated paperstock with profuse exhibit photography in vivid color, averaging 40p. except for last two numbers which run to sixty pages each, fine copies. Represented here are lots put up for sale on 28 Fevrier and 23 Octobre 2000, 26..... More
Cat.No: 173816
Manila: Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, 1995. Staplebound. 50p., staplebound magazine, 8.5x11 inches. Light handling wear, else very good. Featuring stories on the violent Presidential Anti-Crime Commission, sterilization for women, and schistosomiasis cases in a rural community. More
Cat.No: 289066
Manila: Cacho Hermanos, inc., 1985. 381p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches. Light toning around edges of inside cover, small tear on spine, else very good. Filipiniana Reprint Series, Book 13. More
Cat.No: 284769
Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1898. Hardcover. 208p., cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, frontis., corners bumped, boards lightly edgeworn, contemporary owner's name on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dust jacket. Novel about two sisters who become missionaries, written for a juvenile audience. More
Cat.No: 297838
Paris: Editions Baudiniere, 1929. 249p., illustrated with an in-text line map (a further map in pale colors decorates the wraps), publisher's ads, 7.5x4.7 inch paperbound; a few signatures are opened a little roughly, and head and tail of spine panel both are lacking large chips to quite ugly effect: the..... More
Cat.No: 165289
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. Hardcover. xi, 228p., illustrated with line maps and emphasizing topography over ethnology (by a long shot!), let's hazard the guess that this study is partly a preparation for the struggle with Japan; dedication specifies an Army Air Force colleague. Hardbound first edition in blue..... More
Cat.No: 296574
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Hardcover. 244p., cloth-covered boards, tables, maps, one fold-out map at rear, offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket with foxing to the verso. More
Cat.No: 297968
Orissa, India: Smt. Shantilata Das, undated, circa 1980. 126p., sewn signatures in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps; somewhat worn, with wrinkled lamination and a small snag at the heel, some offset color inside front cover but essentially sound and clean. Cover illustration shows mother and child. More
Cat.No: 170152
Manila: National Book Store, Inc., 1971. Paperback. xxv, 405p., paperback, 5.75x8.5 inches. Second Edition. Wraps creased and shelfworn, pages evenly toned, some minor marginalia and highlighting; a reading copy. Majority in English with sections in Tagalog. More
Cat.No: 284829
Victoria: the gallery, 1980. Paperback. 56p., profuse b&w exhibit and site/artist photography, softbound in 9x8.5 inch glazed alkaline paperstock in colorphoto wraps. A fine copy: sound, clean, unmarked. Non-sacred artifacts, such as wall-hangings, betel-nut mortars, comb, jewelry, boat figurehead, and suchlike. More
Cat.No: 300108
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1980. Pamphlet. 49p., staplebound booklet, 9x8 inch wraps; b&w photos., in very good condition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 69. More
Cat.No: 296666