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EICKHOF-METZING Petra
Sai Jin-Hus (1874-1936) Eine bemerkenswerte Frau der ausgehenden Qing-Zeit
iii + 181pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde des Doktors der Philosophie der Universität Hamburg), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, X110858
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HOUA Liou Tse
La cosmologie des pa Koua et l'astronomie moderne. Prévision d'une nouvelle planète
154pp. + frontispice, avec 26 figures dans le texte, 24cm., Thèse pour le doctorat d'Université présentée à la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Paris, brochure originale, cachet au verso de la page de titre, texte frais, bon état, X112245
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SANDMEYER Elmer Clarence
The anti-Chinese Movement in Califotnia
127pp., 27cm., Doctoral Dissertation (Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois 1932), reprined from "Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences" (vol.24), stamp at verso of title page, pages still uncut, text is clean and bright, good condition, X112255
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PARK Nam-Kon
Chinesische Emigranten in Korea seit dem 14. Jh. und ihre Nachkommen bis in die Gegenwart
219pp., 26cm., text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades am Fachbereich Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften II der Freien Universität Berlin), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, X112256
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VERWILGHEN Albert Felix
The Character of Mencius
xviii + 152pp., 27cm., text in English, Doctoral dissertation (A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master in arts, University of Wahington, 1964), blind wrappers, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, F113271
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Friedrich Perzynski
Von Chinas gottern reisen in China mit 80 bildtafeln
In 8° grande, pp. 262. Legatura editoriale in mz pelle, piccole mancanze al dorso. Ex libris.
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BRADLEY N.
The Old Burma Road. A Journey on Foot and Muleback. From the Diary, Notes and Reminiscences of Dr. Neville Bradley, for many Years a Medical Missionary in China. With a Foreword by Lady Erskine Crum.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates on 10; cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy. Fascinating insight into rural China between the wars. Uncommon in this condition. Graham & Cole F7 (recording the first edition).
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[Sale Catalogue of] Contemporary Chinese Art Day Sale. 5 October 2008.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured reproductions (one folding and many double- and full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. This outstanding sale comprised a total of 491 lots. The catalogue includes detailed career descriptions of the artists together with full indexes. Scarce.
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LITTLE Archibald John
Through Yang-Tse Gorges. Or, Trade and Travel in Western China. Third and Revised [Best] Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 34 plates on 28 and large folding coloured map (neatly repaired on inner surface at folds) at rear, neat contemporary signature on half-title; original pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in red and black, backstrip lettered in black, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked in cloth to style with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author's record of a two month's journey from Shanghai to Chung-king, with perceptive and detailed observations on the revolution, trade, imports, exports, taxation and other commercial aspects. In addition Little makes copious notes on the geography, flora and fauna, commercial and cultural activities and historical contexts. Through his journey he argues for the voyage to be repeated by steamship, a venture not realised until he himself attempted it in a tiny steamboat some fifteen years later. This best and considerably extended edition includes in the final chapter an account of his remarkable achievement. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Cordier Sinica I, 124 & II, 2148
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STEIN Aurel
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 fine coloured plates (complete with captioned guards) on 15, 123 monochrome plates on 78, 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and a large folding coloured map, some very light occasional marginal spotting as often; original sienna cloth, gilt back, upper cover blocked in gilt, gilt top, uncut, one or two leaves unopened, joints a trifle rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE
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BONNER-SMITH D.
The Second China War 1856-1860.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and 3 full-page maps in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram back lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. XCV. With 6pp series catalogue bound in at end. This copy was presented by J E Morpurgo to the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate with press-mark on front free endpaper. Jack Eric Morpurgo (1918-2000), professor, historian, man of letters and eminent Old Blue, was educated at Christ's Hospital School and the University of North Brunswick, Canada. After service with the Royal Artillery in WWII he worked as an editor at Penguin Books and was several times nominated by Allen Lane as his successor, but the appointment fell foul of the volatile relationship shared by the two men (Morpurgo wrote Lane's biography in 1970). After Penguin he joined the National Book League (now Book Trust) where he rose to Director-General. He was subsequently appointed Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds and was awarded several visiting professorships at universities throughout the world. He is the stepfather of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Scarce.
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BRICE Martin H.
The Royal Navy and the Sino-Japanese Incident 1937-41. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, faint tape marks on endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Full account of the almost forgotten quasi-war on the China Station. Law, 0049
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CONN Peter
Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. A Cultural Biography. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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CLIFFORD D.
Carved Chinese Lacquer.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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FRY R.
Chinese Art. An Introductory Handbook of Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes and Minor Arts by Roger Fry, Bernard Rackham, Laurence Binyon, A F Kendrick, Osvald Siren and W. . Winkworth. [Third Edition].
Roy. 8vo., Third Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 26 coloured plates on 21, 101 sepia-toned plates on 62, and several illustrations and a full-page map in the text; endpapers and fore-edge mildly spotted; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter spotted at fold-ins. First published in 1935 as a heavily revised version of Burlington Magazine Monograph 1. Includes a register of hall-marks.
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MELSON (ed.) P.J.
White Ensign - Red Dragon. The History of the Royal Navy in Hong Kong 1841-1997. Second Edition.
Oblong 4to., Second and Best Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The best account, including a valuable chronology of RN ships in or around Hong Kong from 1834-1997. This augmented edition includes the RN withdrawal
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WILKINSON E.S.
Shanghai Birds. A Study of Bird Life in Shanghai and the surrounding Districts. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 22 coloured plates depicting many species per plate; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. A beautiful copy of an important avifauna. Rare, especially in this condition.
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DINGLE E.J.
China's Revolution 1911-1912. A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War. CIVIL WAR IN CHINA
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 35 plates on 31 and 2 large folding maps on japon, half-title lightly spotted otherwise some very light and occasional marginal spotting to text; original pictorial blue cloth, upper elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its faint tape-marks on covers, bookplate on front paste-down, press-mark on front free endpaper and small blind stamp on title. Well-illustrated account of the revolution at Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang. One of the first Caucasians to live in China for any length of time, Dingle was resident in Hankow at the outbreak and remained throughout the revolt. Includes a valuable set of otherwise unpublished photographs of localities, military detail and leading personalities (many of the images are from the Upward collection). The author was appointed FRGS and later founded the School of Mentalphysics in California. RARE.
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HILL John
China Dragons. A Rifle Company at War, Burma 1944-45. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. [Royal Berkshire Regiment].
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 13 July 2005. Sale Code: L05211. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs (a number folding or full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. This outstanding sale comprises lots 101-272. Includes chronology.
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WRIGHT R.N.J.
The Chinese Steam Navy 1862-1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pale green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ASHTON (ed.) L.
Chinese Art. Introduction by Laurence Binyon.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 23 plates; original yellow wrappers, printed in red, covers mildly dust-soiled, a very good, clean copy. Includes a chronology and select bibliography. SCARCE
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FENG (ed.) Z.
Textiles from Dunhuang in UK Collections. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured plates throughout; pictorial cloth, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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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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