New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015. First Edition. Quarto. 320 pp. Color photographs and illustrations throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Bright magenta boards with black lettering to spine. Charcoal endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed along front fold with a chip and scrape to bottom corner. Spine slightly cocked and rear..... More
![Item #6601 The Splendors of Tibet [Signed to William Safire]. Audrey Topping, Seymour Topping, fwd](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6601.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Jogjakarta, Indonesia: Balai Penjelidikan Batik (Batik Research Center), [ca. 1960s]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (20x34cm.); publisher’s black cord-tied gilt-lettered cloth, batik sample mounted to front cover; [11]ll. interleaved with glassine; nine (9) mounted batik samples with accompanying text in English and Indonesian, each sample accompanied by an original mounted black..... 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
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
![Item #27830 Christianity in the Oriental Mind [Signed and Inscribed]. Dr. Su Jan Lee](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27830.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698170691)
Taipei, Taiwan: Published by Yen Hsung Printing Company, 1967. First Edition. Signed by Dr. Lee with gift inscription on full title, with Lee's business card laid in at front. Octavo. 204 pp. Printed dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt and red. Dust jacket worn along edges; general rubbing; chip..... More
Quezon City, Philippines: Socio-Pastoral Institute , 1986. First Edition. Signed by De La Torre with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo. 215 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear and general creasing to wraps with mild curling to edges. Binding is sound. Pages..... More
![Item #6794 [Text in Japanese] Seishin Igaku Hyakunenshi: Jinbunshi Eno Kiyo [Hundert Jahre...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6794.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #28167 Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book [Three Volume Set]. Fu Pei Mei](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Taipei: T & S Industrial Co., 1973-1979?] Three volumes; small square quartos; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jackets; color photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, most notably to Vol. I, which also has rather significant soiling to margins and top textblock edge (evidently the most-used volume in this..... 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
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 428 pp. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with some light chipping and a few scuffs. Boards show light shelfwear and binding is sound. Stamp to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise..... 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. Covers lightly shelfworn with some faint smudging along..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition, First Issue with missing "e" in "generosity" and "of" from bottom two lines of p. 110. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 272pp. Binding rather inexpertly recased, spine cocked with cloth toned to tan and gilt rather dulled, corners..... 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
Quezon City, Philippines: Karrel, Inc., [1986]. First Edition. Octavo. 27 pp. Printed wraps. Light rubbing with some mild curling to edges. Binding is sound and pages lightly toned. A Very Good copy of a scarce history of the People Power Revolution, which took place in February of 1986. More
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 268, [1] pp. Color photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light rubbing and mild lean to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy Volume 25 in the publisher's Studies in Asian Thought..... 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
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First UK Edition. Octavo. 342 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in gilt; map endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges of unclipped dust jacket with a few inoffensive spots. Boards show light shelfwear; vertical production crease along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very..... More
![Item #27729 On the Eaves of the World [Two volume set]. Reginald Farrer](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27729.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698180808)
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926. Second Impression. Two volumes. Black and white photographs; map to rear of volume I, complete. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Mild edgewear; light scuffing and spotting to boards; slight lean. Bindings sound. Touch of foxing to top edge of text block but pages..... 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
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
Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1909. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial onlay to upper cover; 142pp.; frontispiece, maps and photographic plates throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, spine gilt a bit dulled, contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; xxii, 265pp. Green illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket chipped at corners and spine ends with a few shallow chips and tears along edges, a small puncture over front joint..... More