London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 292 p. + 4 p. author's books. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket with 16s price inatct.. Gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket moderately chipped along edges with some general rubbing and a few strips of amateur tape..... More
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Signed by Patti on half title to radio host Shelly Tromberg with inscription, "To Shelly Tromberg - for a most enjoyable hour on your splendid talk show - Thank you. Archimedes Patti. Mar 13 '81." Octavo. 612 pages. Unclipped photographic..... More
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New York: SINO Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Signed by Topping on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "For Bill - We read you regularly in The Lhasa Times and thought highly of your column. Best Wishes Audrey + Top." Quarto. 185 pages plus index. Color..... More
Osaka, JP: Buraku Liberation Research Institute (Buraku Kaiho Kenkyusho), 1998. First Thus. Octavo. 480 pages. Black and white illustrations. Blue printed wraps with green printed dust jacket. English-language. Dust jacket is worn along edges with some light rippling along top edge. Worn at top of spine. Heavily annotated in..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 425 pages. All black and white plates and maps present. Illustrated dust jacket with original $15.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Dust jacket rubbed with some light chipping to extremities. Lightly dust soiled along edges. Boards are..... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions / Reformed Church in the United States, 1918. Octavo. 304 pages. Navy printed wraps. Black and white plates; 2 color fold-out maps. Wraps show some fading and rippling to spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends with some a couple Secure in..... More
![Text in Japanese] Seishin Igaku Hyakunenshi: Jinbunshi Eno Kiyo [Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie]. Emil...](/pictures/thumb/6794.jpg?v=1595873147)
Tokyo: Sozoshuppan, 1998. Octavo (21.5cm.): publisher's boards in mustard textured paper dust jacket printed in black; 287pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Text entirely in Japanese. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 490pp, including index. Four maps printed within text. Ocean blue linen with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Spine darkened; some nibbling (?) at spine foot; minimal wear at spine crown. Panel corners and edges politely worn. Textblock unmarred..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. One-vol. abridgement of paired volumes first published in 1906. Octavo (20.5x14x5cm); xvi + 444pp. Photo frontis showing author Hamilton with Japanese Gen. Kukoki at Battle of the Shaho; 42 additional maps, terrain sketches, and battle plans; all maps in gatefold and four colors. The volume, in..... More
[Mixed co-publishers; vols. identical in format, from the same set of plates and same printer]. London: Edward Arnold, 1906 and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Both First Editions. Each volume octavo (23x15x5cm). Vol I (Arnold) xii + 362pp + 16pp of publisher's prospectuses. Vol II (Longmans) xii +..... More
Taipei, TW: Chang Foundation, 1990. First Edition. Quarto. 190 pages. Color photographs throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Red boards stamped in gilt. Red cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. Faint shelfwear along bottom edge of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is gently worn along edges..... More
Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); xii + 153pp, including artist biographies, orthographical and phonological appendices, and bibliography. The 281 catalogued items are accompanied by approximately the same number of photographs, most in color. Illustrated card wraps. Some slight signs of age to..... More
New York: Cross Rivers Press, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 72 pages + 140 color plates. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to wraps. Curling near fore edge. Binding is sound. Gallery sticker to inside of front cover. Pages unmarked. More
Ulleungdo: Dokdo Museum, 2006. First Editions. Octavo; Vol I 28 + xii pp in English, 1132pp in Japanese; Vol II 24 + xii pp in English, 1118pp in Japanese; Vol III 24 + xi pp in English, 1017pp in Japanese; Vol IV 40 + vi pp in English, 769pp in..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 336 pages. Black and white maps. Decorative dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with significant loss around center of spine. Rubbing to rear. Boards are lightly worn and toned along edges..... More
New York: Department of Asian Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Tall octavo. 367 pages + glossary. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges of wraps with some faint general rubbing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Dhaka: BD: The University Press Limited, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. 341 pages. Charts and graphs. Unclipped decorative dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in black, white, and yellow. Dust jacket lightly worn and creased around edges. Boards show light wear to extremities with some bubbling to front and rear. Binding..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. First Edition. Ex-library with "discarded" stamp on front free endpaper, library stamp on top page edges, and "DC Public Library" barcode sticker on back, but with no pockets, stamps, or other other library additions. Covers are sturdy, clean, and square with only very light edgewear..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Journal of East Asian Affairs, 1978-1982. 3 individual volumes. One volume signed and inscribed: "For Judy Fontaine, the short form of the paternal doctrine on international affairs, Ray S. Cline." "U.S. Power" 21.5x14cm, 45pp; "Main Trends" 21.5x14cm, 60pp;..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Tall octavo. 314 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows light wear to edges, general smudging and dust soiling, and heavily creased along rear joint but has not worn through. Bookseller..... More
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition, wrapper issue. Quarto. 360 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Errata slip laid in. Wraps gently worn along edges. Binding sound. A touch of dust soiling along top edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition. Quarto. 1265 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in copper. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Sturdy and square in boards with just a trace of shelfwear along bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. More
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998. First Edition (published simultaneously with First Edition in cloth). Quarto (31x29x3.5cm); 480pp, including bibliography and index. Approximately 400 color images, including the 281 catalogued items. Pictorial card wraps with generous French flaps. Catalog of the 1998-99 exhibit at the National Gallery of..... More
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Early reprint. 12mo; full contemporary brown straight-grained morocco, black gilt-lettered spine label; iv,[4],xii,[1]-385,362*-384*,[385]-716,12(ads)pp.; woodcut frontispiece, 47 leaves of plates (collated and complete). Boards a bit scuffed and expertly reattached at a later date with archival repair at spine foot to match, tiny..... More