![Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross [Signed]. Archimedes L. A. Patti](/pictures/thumb/7141.jpeg?v=1599604220)
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
![The Splendors of Tibet [Signed to William Safire]. Audrey Topping, Seymour Topping, fwd](/pictures/thumb/6601.jpeg?v=1598480682)
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
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
[Bethel College, KS: Bethel College, 1936.] First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered buckram; 154pp.; double photographic frontispiece. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Letters composed by the Kansas Mennonite during a trip around the world in 1920, addressed to his wife and three children while..... More
[Singapore]: Warin Publicity Servies Ltd., 1939. Quarto (23.5cm.); single leaf folded into four-paneled illustrated brochure; printed in black, orange, and grey on yellow laid stock; plan of the pavilion printed on rear panel. Minimal wear, else Near Fine. "Under the unobtrusive shadow of the island fortress of Singapore--the greatest..... 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
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
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
![Tibet Is My Country [Inscribed and Signed]. Thubten Jigme Norbu, Edward Fitzgerald, as told to...](/pictures/thumb/7505.jpeg?v=1603918390)
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First English Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue simulated cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; 264pp.; color photographic frontispiece, eight leaves of color photographs, some double-paged, map in text. Corners very gently bumped, spine rather toned, else a Very Good or better copy, albeit lacking dust jacket. Inscribed..... More
![The Grass Roof [Signed]. Younghill Kang](/pictures/thumb/8232.jpg?v=1608743375)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. A later printing with Scribner's seal but no "A" on copyright, which is 1931. Signed by the author and inscribed by him "With Deep Regards" on September 2, 1937 on the front free endpaper. We can't be certain that those deep regards are for..... More