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Arts of Asia Mar-April 1981 - July-August 1983
Hongkong Arts of Asia Publications 1981 Soft Cover Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
All issues from March of 1981 to August of 1983 save the May-June 1981 issue. Published six times a year in Hongkong, these are probably the most sumptious (and learned) periodicals on Asian Art for the collector ever printed. Each issue covers the preceeding month's auctions in detail. Glossy illustrated covers, on heavy coated stock with profuse color and B&W illustrations. All spines are tight and covers intact except for two small tears on the back cover of one issue, no tears or markings on the texts. This set will require extra postage.
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125.00 USD
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Important Chinese and Japanese Works of Art
New York Christie's Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket
Catalogue of Chinese and Japanese Art auctioned December 2-4, 1982. 390 pages. B&W and color illustrations plus two fold-out color illustrations. Contains pre-sale estimates but no selling prices. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Cover is VG+ with the slightest rubbing.
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39.00 USD
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Alai;Goldblatt, Howard;Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun Red Poppies
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Houghton Mifflin Co. 2002 0618119647 / 9780618119646 1st Edition Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
433 pp. Set on the Tibet-Sichuan border in the 1930's as the rival feudal kingdoms of a semi-mediaval Tibet began to confront the modern world. An extraordinary novel through the eyes of a Tibetan author. Clean, tight and unmarked. Jacket is bright and intact with slight rubbing on the back. Not price clipped or remaindered.
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3.00 USD
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Grosset, Rene Civilizations of the East - China
Alfred Knopf 1935 Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Translated from the French by Catherine Alison Phillips. With 280 B&W illustrations of Chinese Art from prehistoric times throught he Ming Dynasty. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, printed on coated stock. Black boards are bumped at the spine. Red and black spine is rubbed.
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14.50 USD
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Mackenzie, Donald A. China and Japan Myths and Legends
London Senate 1995 1859580130 / 9781859580134 Unbound Very Good No Jacket as Published
404 pp with 34 B&W plates. An authoritive introduction to the mythology of China and Japan. showing the origins and evolution of oriental myths and their spread from China across to Japan. Including tales from Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Shinto. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slight sunning. Cover is clean but bumped at corners.
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6.95 USD
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Peissel, Michel The Cavaliers of Kham, The Secret War in Tibet
London Heinemann 1972 First Edition Hard Cover As New Very Good +
An account of the Khampa guerrilla war against the Chinese in Eastern Tibet. Virtually the only account of this harsh and disturbing historical episode.Text is clean, tight, as new. Jacket is in as-new condition except for slight sun-fading on spine. Price clipped.
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65.00 USD
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Smith, Nicol Burma Road The Story of the World's Most Romantic Highway
Garden City 1942 Hard Cover Very Good Good
333 pp.Written during WWll, this book is an account of the authors journey over the Burma Road to China as it was being built. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, lightly tanned. Endpapers with maps are tanned. 71 B&W illustrations. Owner's name in pencil on flyleaf. DJ with photo of the view from the Burma Road has small tear along top edge, is faded and rubbed but intact. Price clipped.
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4.85 USD
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Stilwell, Joseph W. The Stilwell Papers
New York William Sloane Assoc. 1948 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Minus
Edited and arranged by Theodore H. White. A private record of the challenge and burdon of high responsibility of a great American General's experience in overseeing the training of the Chinese Army during WWll. Endpaper maps, B&W illustrations. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is intact but scuffed,rubbed, torn on base of spine.
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38.00 USD
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