![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
![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
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
![Item #14407 Collection of Thai Horror and Adventure Comics [64 volumes]. Horror - Thailand](/pictures/thumb/14407.jpg?v=1666963145)
Bangkok, Thailand: [n.p.], ca. 1975-1985. Collection of 64 Thai comics. Octavos. Illustrated wraps. Black and white interior illustrations. Text in Thai. Light wear to edges of wraps with some general rubbing; one volume wrinkled. Bindings generally sound and interiors unmarked. An attractive and colorful set of comics from..... 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: 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
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
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
New York: The Council on African Affairs, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 20 pp., including covers. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Light edgewear and toning to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Publication from the final year of The Council on African Affairs, for which Paul Robeson served as editor..... 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