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ENDACOTT G.B.
A History of Hong Kong. History of Hong Kong.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 6, 2 folding map and a full-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in chipped and creased dustwrapper. A major contribution to the history. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
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COATES Austin
Myself a Mandarin. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned and dust-soiled dustwrapper.
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FLEMING Peter
The Siege at Peking.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 20, 5 maps in the text and 2 coloured maps; cloth, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip. Standard account of the Legations in Peking under attack from both the Boxers and the Imperial Chinese Army in 1900.
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O'DONOVAN Patrick
For Fear of Weeping. [Burma, Malaya, Siam, China, Indonesia]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back,, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reminiscences by the former Far East correspondent of The Observer newspaper.
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PENKALA Maria
Magic Blanc de Chine. A Handbook for the Collector. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine plates, illustrations, makers' marks and tables in the text, and endpaper maps; sky blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE
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CHI Tsui
The Story of China. A Puffin Picture Book. Illustrated by Carolin Jackson. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Puffin Picture Book PP47. This first edition was never reissued; the subsequent version, with new illustrated endpapers, paste-downs and title, and new illustrations on pp. 2 and 32, was published in both cloth and wrappers in 1947. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See PCS, p.23.
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COURSE A.G.
Pirates of the Eastern Seas. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. NMM IV, 104.
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HONEY William Bower
The Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 3 fine mounted coloured plates and 192pp of plates in monochrome, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. Bright, clean copy of a standard reference. Includes China, Indo-china, Korea and Japan.
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BOXER, ed. C.R.
South China in the Sixteenth Century. Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar de Cruz, Fr. Martin de Rada (1550-1575). NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps (a number folding), free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 106.
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McALEAVY Henry
A Dream of Tartary. The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry P'u Yi. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The pitiful and horrifying story of the last Emperor of China.
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DALRYMPLE William
In Xanadu. A Quest. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the author's first book. SCARCE.
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THUBRON Colin
Behind the Wall. Introduced by Frank Dikotter. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured plates and a map in the text; pictorial boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
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DER LING Princess
Old Buddha (Empress Tzu Hsi). IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, yellow top, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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BLAND J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy]
China under the Empress Dowager. being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from State Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of her Household. IN FULL MOROCCO
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (2 in red and black), and full-page illustration and double-page map in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cordier 3487.
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WHITEHEAD J.S.
Escape to Fight On. With 204 Military Mission in China. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, and a fill-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's account of his capture at the fall of Hong Hong, his escape to mainland China and his eventual pick-up by 204 Military Mission, an Anglo-Australian guerrilla unit based on Chungking and training Chinese Nationalists.
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WHELAN Russell
The Flying Tigers. [The Story of the American Volunteer Group. First UK Edition]. THE ORIGINAL UK EDITION IN WORN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, backstrip lettered inj black, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter worn, frayed and with loss at edges. The UK edition, published under wartime rules, is far scarcer than its earlier US counterpart. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Graham & Cole, U78 (recording the US edition).
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TRETYAKOV Lieut.-General N.A.
My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and plans, and large folding maps; original cloth, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good,bright, firm copy. First appearance in English of an important account, originally published in Russian in 1909. VERY SCARCE.
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WRIGHT Stanley F.
Hart and the Chinese Customs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 20 plates on 16; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, blue top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard history of the Chinese Customs Service and a biography of Sir Robert Hart who directed its activities for nearly half a century. SCARCE.
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COLLIS Maurice
The Great Within. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, plates, maps in the text and large folding map at end, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original purple cloth, gilt back, yellow top, boards lightly faded at lower edge else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges. Crisp copy of Collis's chronological account of Peking, the Forbidden City, and Chinese dynastic history from the end of the Ming period. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BIRD Isabella
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory. Introduced by Dervla Murphy. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontspiece and over 100 photographs in duotone, illustrations in the text, large folding map in pocket at end and red endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case blocked in gilt.
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MOLESWORTH Carl
Sharks over China. The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue boards, red cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILSON Andrew
The 'Ever-Victorious Army'. A History of the Chinese Campaign under Lt.-Col. C.G.Gordon and the Suppression of the Tai-Ping Rebellion. [Facsimile reissue] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with map as frontispiece and full-page illustratons and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1868.
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PALIT Major General D.K.
War in the High Himalaya. The Indian Army in Crisis, 1962. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with maps in the text; brown cloth, ypper board and backstrip lettered oin gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at head of backstrip.
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KING, pseud. Evan
Children of the Black-Haired People. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Peter Curl, and trade ticket of Barrett of Chichester on front free endpaper. The author's first novel. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LINDSAY Michael
The Unknown War. North China 1937-1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. The only published photographic record of the war against Japan in North China. By a foreign observer working in the Chinese Communist organisation.
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SELBY John
The Paper Dragon. An Account of the China Wars 1840-1900. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WASSERSTEIN Bernard
Secret War in Shanghai. [Treachery, Subversion and Collaboration in the Second World War.] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MOLESWORTH Carl
Wing to Wing. Air Combat in China, 1943-45. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; yellow boards, red cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed account of the Chinese-American Composite Wing which succeeded the Flying Tigers.
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TRENOWDEN Ian
Operations Most Secret. SOE: The Malayan Theatre. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON SLIP MOUNTED ON TITLE. By comparison with its operations in Europe, SOE's activities in the Far East have received far less attention. The author worked with the wartime commander of Force 136 Group B to create an extensive survey of operations before and after Hudson's arrival. Includes a valuable historical note on SOE operations in Malaya and a select bibliography. Enser, p.150.
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COLLIS Maurice
Foreign Mud. Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates, and 5 full-page maps in the text; original yellow cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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LUBBOCK Basil
The China Clippers. [Seventh Edition.] UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding plans, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of the leading historians of the age of sail.
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LUBBOCK Basil
The China Clippers. [Third Edition.] UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and folding plans, small neat inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, case a little loose (but binding entirely sound), an unusually bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of the leading historians of the age of sail.
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SEMPILL Cecilia
British Pottery and China. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 29 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. The sole edition with this title; subsequent impressions became 'English Pottery and Porcelain'. Carney 77.
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FENG I
Give me back my Rivers and Hills!. Translated from the Chinese by Innes Jackson. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.104.
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HOYT Edwin P.
Japan's War. The Great Pacific Conflict 1853-1952. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper.
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LANCASTER Roy
Travels in China. A Plantsman's Paradise NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout, and coloured endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GLINES Carroll V.
Chennault's Forgotten Warriors. The Saga of the 308th Bomb Group in China. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; buff cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SEMENOV Petr Petrovich
Travels in the Tian'-Shan', 1856-1857. Edited and annotated by Colin Thomas. Translated by Liudmilla Gilmour, Colin Thomas and Marcus Wheeler. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 189.
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HAY John
On Big Flowery Hill. A Soldier's Journal of a secret mission into occupied China, 1942. Preface by Jon Lee Anderson. Introduction by Peter Hay. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with full-page photographs throughout and endpaper maps; pictorialwrappers, a near fine copy.
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CUNNINGHAM Cyril
No Mercy, No Leniency. Communist Mistreatment of British Prisoners of War in Korea. With a Foreword by M.R.D. Foot. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NAVARRETE Domingo
The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86. Volumes I and II. Edited from Manuscript and Printed Sources by J.S. Cummins. [Hakluyt Society]. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps (a number folding); original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. CXVII 1118, 1119. Describes travels in China and the outward and homeward journeys. The origin and nature of the Jesuit-Dominican controversy over the Chinese rites are summarized in the editor's introduction. Bridges & Hair, p.286.
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OWEN Frank
Our Ally China. The Story of a Great People and its Man of Destiny - Chiang Kai-Shek. [With a Foreword by the Chinese Ambassador Dr. Wellington Koo.] A RARE SURVIVAL
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, text lightly toned; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Published in Allen's series 'Worth-While War-Time Books'. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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SONG, Li
A History of Chinese Art. Vol. I: From pre-Qin to the Tang Dynasty; Vol. II: From Five Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty. Translated by Simon Yin and Jane Elliott. Preface by James C.S. Lin. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with over 1200 coloured and monochrome illustrations; maroon cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SHARF Frederic A.
China, 1900: The Eyewitnesses Speak.. The Experience of Westerners in China during the Boxer Rebellion, as described by Participants in Letters, Diaries and Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and plans; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THUBRON Colin
The Silk Road China. Beyond the Celestial Kingdom. Photographs by Carlos Navajas. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous fine coloured photographs (a number double- or full-page) and endpaper maps; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
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THUBRON Colin
A Family in Nanjing [in Granta 20. In Trouble Again. A Special Issue of Travel Writing.]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND REDMOND O'HANLON
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Redmond's O'Hanlon's article 'Amazon Adventure' is also signed on title.
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KEAY John
China: A History. Introduced by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured plates, and maps and tables in the text; coloured cloth, backstrips lettered in black, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
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BERRY-HILL Henry
Chinnery and China Coast Paintings. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with mounted coloured portrait frontispiece and 140 plates in monochrome; yellow buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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FLEMING Peter
News From Tartary. [Revised and expanded reissue. With Foreword by Kate Grimond.] 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Splendid, expanded reissue of the original edition of 1936, with new Foreword by the author's daughter; the binding matches that of the original Cape edition.
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STEIN, Aurel.
Innermost Asia: Its Geography as a Factor in History. [First Asia Lecture]
56 pages, in two complete issues. Plus numerous photographic plates, one of which is a panoramic view and two large fold-out color maps, measuring approximately 9 x 18.5 inches (23 x 47cm) and 8 x 9 inches (20 x 23cm). Published in two separate consecutive monthly issues of the Geographical Journal. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Two complete issues, seldom found in such good and original condition. Aurel Stein's first lecture at the Royal Geographica Society and covers his travels in Chinese Turkestan. Pre-dating Aurel Stein's book, "Innermost Asia", published in 1928. A highly invaluable expedition account, profusely illustrated with spectacular photographic plates and accompanied by 2 large fold-out colour maps, containing Stein's elucidation of ancient routes, remarkable excavations, and prehistoric civilizations. Features Loulan, Tunhwang, Mastuj, Lovaza, the former delta of Quruq Darya, the Mingshui Wells and dried up Lop Sea, etc. Stein's explorations extended from Central Asia, Kansu and Eastern Iran, carried out under the orders of H.M. Government. Stein's captivating personal reveal of archaeological and geographical explorations carried out, and most significant discoveries made in the remotest parts of Asia. "Innermost Asia" is the detailed scientific report of the author's Central Asian expedition to Chinese Turkestan, tracing the ancient route across the Lop desert undertaken during the years 1913-16. This took him to Kashgar, Khotan, the Pamirs, Samarkand, before finally turning south through eastern Persia to Baluchistan. In addition to visiting old sites, he made several new excavations in the region of Turfan. At the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas he extracted more manuscripts and on his return through Persia discovered Buddhist remains at Sistan in south-east Persia. At the end of this expedition Stein's reputation as the authority on the archaeology of the Silk Road was unchallenged. As with his other great expeditions it was to be several years before the publication of the official report but when it arrived it was a great success, most copies having been sold prior to publication. Yakushi S720. A primary archaeological resource - The first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddhas. With Spectacular Maps and Photographic Illustrations
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