![Item #6601 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
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
New York: Columbia University Press, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); contemporary tan library cloth, spine lettered in black, grey topstain; 334,[12](ads)pp. Ex-George C. Marshall Research Library with their markings throughout, cloth a bit finger-soiled, spine toned, else Good to Very Good. At head of title page: Studies in History, Economics..... More
![Item #6794 [Text in Japanese] Seishin Igaku Hyakunenshi: Jinbunshi Eno Kiyo [Hundert Jahre...](/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
![Item #26060 41: A Portrait of My Father [Bookplate Signed by the Author Mounted in]. George H. W....](/pictures/thumb/26060.jpg?v=1680101284)
[Seoul]: YBM, [2015]. First Korean Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xx,273pp.; color portrait frontispiece, twelve leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by George W. Bush mounted to half title page. Text almost entirely in..... 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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Two volumes; large octavos (24.5cm.); publisher's cloth in uniform white photo-illustrated dust jackets, Vol. I retaining original price ($10), Vol. II price-clipped, grey topstain; xii,[2],436; viii,[2],524pp.; portrait frontispieces, fourteen leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear to cloth extremities..... 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: Philip Chetwind, 1670. "Revised, Corrected, and Inlarged [sic] by the Author himself immediately before his Death." Folio (34cm.); modern half sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, retaining original endpapers; [12],1095,[44]pp. (collated complete, collation available upon request); steel-engraved frontispiece and added title page printed in red and..... 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
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, green, and blue; xi,[1],316,[3](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine a shade toned, else Very Good and sound. Most likely a fictitious collection of letters pertaining to the Spanish-American War, the editor Bonsal admitting that "For obvious reasons" the names of the..... More
![Item #21196 [Text in Thai] [Sayings of the Lord Buddha] [Cover title: Sudasna]. Sudasnaram...](/pictures/thumb/21196.jpg?v=1675533922)
Ubol and Bangkok: Sudasnaram Foundation / Department of Religious Affairs, n.d., ca. 1960s. First Thus. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's gilt-lettered silk; [6],103pp.; title page vignette printed in colors. Hinge cracked at p. [1], spine a bit sunned, else Very Good. Bilingual collection, in Thai and English, of sayings of..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 180 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. with "$3.00" price present. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket chipped along edges, rubbed and scuffed, and damp-staining along bottom edge. Boards worn with..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. Revised and Condensed Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream dust jacket printed in green retaining original price ($5.00); xv,[1],424pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 15 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos, color folding map tipped to rear pastedown. Shallow chips and closed tears to..... More
Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition, wrapper issue. Two quarto volumes. 465 p.; 603 p. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Wraps are lightly worn along edges with some general rubbing and faint surface scratching. Bindings..... More