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Boothe, Ella Mae
The Pleasure of China Painting
85 pages. Written for china painters that have had at least some basic instruction in painting and wish to advance in their work. Illustrated. Duo-tang binding. Prior owner's name else clean and unmarked with moderate to average wear. Nice clean copy. Book
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Thompson, Bill
The Basics of China Painting
235 pages. The definitive guide to the art of china painting. Covers the subject so completely as to make it suitable for beginners as well as advanced china painters. Prior owner's details upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with light wear to book. Binding tight and square. Heavy wear to dust jacket. Book
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Thompson, Bill
China Painting with Bill Thompson
188 pages. Sequel to "The Basics of China Painting". A collection of china painting projects which will be enjoyed by beginning and advanced painters. Includes full-colour illustrations. Light wear to book. Prior owner's details atop front endpaper. Dust jacket heavily worn. Book
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Campana, D.M.
Enamel Decorations for Porcelain and Glass
16 pages. Topics include: enamel decorations; quality of the China; The Mixing of the Enamels; Outlining; Firing; Mediums; Application with Brushes; White Enamal Mixture; Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Clean. Nice copy. Book
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Jorgensen, Gunhild
The Techniques of China Painting
112 pages including index. A primer for china painters. Provides ideas to stimulate your imagination, and encourage the development of your free and personal style. An abundance of illustrations, many of which are in colour. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
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Pepin, Jean-Luc
Current Affairs for the Canadian Forces - Volume 9, Number 3, 1 August 1955
30 pages. Shows how the Chinese People's Republic came into existence; how the life of the country has been remodelled on Communist lines; how its armed forces have been built up; and what appear to be the aims of Red China in Asia. Includes several maps. Author went on to become a prominent Canadian politician and (we believe) a member of the Trilateral Commission. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Goodman, David S.G.: Editor
China's Regional Development
204 pages including selected bibliography and index. "Considers two major aspects of China's economic reform: the new 'open policy' towards the west, aimed at attracting technology and skills into the country, and the new emphasis on 'regionalization', which has established market-orientated rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic development. Provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the prospects for China's regional development in the future." - from dust jacket. Minimal wear. Tight and square. Red cloth-covered boards. Ink underlining and marginalia. Light wear to dust jacket with one inch opening at top of front fore-edge. Solid attractive copy. Book
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Yee, Albert H.
A People Misruled - The Chinese Stepping-Stone Syndrome
440 pages including references and index. A unique and thorough study of China and its people and culture. The Chinese Stepping-Stone Syndrome is presented as a social-psychological complex which characterizes the Chinese and helps to explain their behaviour and the socio-political problems of China. Regards Hong Kong as the original geopolitical and psychological stepping-stone. "It awes me how Professor Albert Yee has given me within one book such graphic and gripping insight and immensely greater perception of both the historical roots and the evolved enormous complexities of the ancient and indelible Chinese culture." - Alex Haley, author or Roots. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
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Morris, Rob: Editor
Mariner Life - March 2001 Volume 1 Issue 2
40 pages. Features include: Seaspan's China Tow; St. Roch II - Voyage of Rediscovery; Takaya - Multi-Purpose Patrol Vessel for Vancouver Port; Understanding Cycloidal Propulsion; Osprey 2000 - Ferry with the Kootenay Spirit; 2001 Directory lifts, ways and drydocks; Rough ride on Green Cove. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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Maxwell, Grant
Assignment in Chekiang - 71 Canadians in China 1902-1954
228 pages plus appendices. The story of the Scarboro Mission to China. Black and white illustrations. "A sober but nevertheless moving account of the people who, at their best, had an awesome respect for the tradition and potential of an amazing country and a remarkable people. Prior owner's name atop title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Stanley-Baker, Joan
Nanga - Idealist Painting of Japan: Collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria / No. 17
152 pages including bibliography, references, further reading and glossary of artist's names plus fold-out map of Japan. Black and white illustrations throughout. "The Art Gallery of Victoria is best known perhaps for its Asian Collection which is, to an overwhelming extent, the Fred and Isobel Pollard Collection of Japanese art. This group boasts one of the earliest collections of nanga paintings outside Japan. Nanga means Southern Painting, or Painting of the Southern School, a name later affixed to the idealist painting of scholar officials in China." - from Introduction. Contents include: Early Japanese Masters; Flowering of a National Style - Ikeno Taiga and His Followers; An Individualist in Kyoto; A Follower of Buson and Founder of the Shijo School; Eclectics in Edo and the Kanto Region; Progressives in the Kansai Region; Conservatives in Kyoto; Conservatives from Kyushu; Nineteenth-Century Progressives in Kyoto; The Last Great Flourish. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked. Attractive light-blue cloth-covered boards. Mild sunning at and near spine. Slight warp to front board. Negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Copland, Marnie
Moon Cakes and Maple Sugar
152 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Two widely different cultures are irresistibly entwined in this fascinating story - often humorous - sometimes tragic - of the author's life in China and Canada." - from back cover. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Above-average wear. Tear to base of spine. Decent reading copy. Book
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Tarpley, Webster G.; Chaitkin, Anton; Wertz, Marianna (editor)
George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography
659 pages plus advertisements. Includes index and references. "Here are the details - frightening, gory, hilarious - the background and life of the President: How the Bush family made its money promoting Adolph Hitler and the Nazi war machine; Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other bases of power; the 'war hero' story; George Bush and the secret government - from population control, to Zapata's Watergate burglars, to Iran-Contra; Kissinger, China and genocide in the Third World; Bush's Leveraged Buyout Mob, or the theft of a nation.... Breaks the code of silence which Anglo-American financial oligarchs have imposed around their conduct of U.S. Affairs... A vivid x-ray of the private forces dominating both Republican and Democratic parties - and of the man who occupies the highest seat of power in the nation." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
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Zhenhua, Zhai
Red Flower of China : An Autobiography
245 pages. "Her story is a graphic account of the Cultural Revolution's impact on China's youth." - Edmonton Journal. Prior owner's name and occasional markings. Light wear. Clean solid copy. Book
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Hale, Hilda L. (Signed)
Indomitably Yours : An Account of My Kaleidoscopic Life - Memoirs of Hilda L. Hale
312 pages. Author's signature and inscription, dated 1997, upon title page. "The story of my adventurous life in the Far East - Japan (briefly), China, Hong Kong, and India." - from Preface. Small address label remnant inside front cover. Average wear externally. Contents clean, tight and unmarked. Book
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Alex, Marlee
Hudson Taylor - The Missionary Who Won a Nation (Heroes of Faith and Courage Ser.)
51 pages. Hudson arrived in China with an impossible task... yet he won the world's greatest nation through prayer. Juvenile literature. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Johnson, Hewlett
The Upsurge of China
373 pages. "A stirring account of what the author saw during his travels in China in 1956 and 1959. Tells how China is forging ahead in socialist construction. Gives a vivid description of the rapid industrialization of China's hinterland, the building of the gigantic Yangtse and Yellow River bridges, the Sanmen Gorge and the Chingkiang water conservancy systems." - from dust jacket. Some yellowing to pages. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - November 7, 1959
Features: Hindlea torn to pieces on the Anglesely Rocks; Guardi canvases found in shed; Lunik III Lunar photography technology; Why is it Dark at Night - Part II of a series; fine Assyrian Reliefs; Border areas disputed by India and China; Mexican Cyclone; The Gordon Boys' School; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - September 26, 1959
Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Hitchcock, Ruth
The Good Hand of Our God - God's Pilgrim in China
Over 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Superbly written. Holds your interest from the moment you begin until you lay it down with reluctance." - Mrs. Billy Graham. Above-average wear and some waviness due to past moisture exposure. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Ebrey, Patricia B.
The Inner Quarters : Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
332 pages. References. Index. "... Brings to life what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines to facing widowhood." - from back cover. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Average wear. Solid working copy. Book
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Hatcher, Michael; De Rham, Max; Thorncroft, Antony
The Nanking Cargo
176 pages. "This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the most exciting underwater adventure of the decade - the finding and raising of the Nanking Cargo." - from dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
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Toynbee, Arnold; Glahn, Else
Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan
368 pages. Index. 530 illustrations, 160 in colour. 370 Photographs, engravings, drawings and maps. "Here East Asia, past and present, comes to life wiht a vividness and authenticity that has no precedent." - from dust jacket. Light to moderate wear. Library discard stamp upon decorated front endpaper else unmarked. Minor dampstains to rust coloured cloth upon front board. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
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Goldman, Merle; et al: Editors
China's Intellectuals and the State : In Search of a New Relationship - Harvard Contemporary China Series 3
374 pages. Index. Prior owner's ink stamp atop half-title page. Some markings and underlining to contents. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Sound working copy. Book
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McKown, Robin
The Opium War in China:1840-1842;: The British Resort to War in Order to Maintain Their Opium Trade
66 pages. Index. "When the Chinese in 1840 attempted to cut off this pernicious import, the British resorted to war to maintain it." - from summary page. Intended for younger readers but of interest to all. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Front free endpaper removed. Worthy reference copy. Black and white illlustrations. Book
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Bradshaw, Marian Hahn
Canadian Collector Magazine, September 1985, Volume 20, No. 5: Art and Culture of The Northwest Territories
100 pages. Features: Duke of York's tureen's reunited at Christie's; Art and Culture of the peoples of the Northwest Territories; Northwest Territories Quillwork and Tufting; Parks Canada - Prairie Region; Personal Possessions of Fur Traders and Trappers 1800-1920; Buttons for the collector and the archaeologist; Preserved Provisions - Food for the Royal Navy in the High Arctic, 1818-1875; Tin (Can) Archaeology on the Chilkoot Trail; Selections from Fort Garry - Hudson's Bay Company historical collection enters sixth decade; Bottles from a cellar at St. Andrew's rectory, Manitoba; The Motherwell Homestead - The home of the Grand Old Man of Canadian Agriculture, restored to the summer of 1912; Keiller's Dundee Marmalade date code deciphered; The significant collections of Klondike National Historic Sites; Ephemera for the china collector - ceramic trade cards; Kenderdine's Prairie Vision; Cape Breton Woodworker - Leo MacNeil and the re-furnishing of Louisbourg. Mended tears to front cover else moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Bradshaw, Marian Hahn
Canadian Collector Magazine, November/December 1984, Volume 19, No. 6
78 pages. Features: Patterns of Power - The symbols of Great Lakes Indian Art; Mason's Ironstone - 'improvements in the manufacture of English porcelain'; Bermuda's Government House; Seeing Double - The 19th century's Stereoscope; South China Sea Find - Ming-filled wreck provides earlier dating documentation; Wilno Furniture - Made in the first Polish settlement in Canada; Nineteenth Century Pottery and Porcelain for Canadian Collectors; Cornwall Pewter Plate Mystery. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Collector Magazine - November/December 1982, Vol. 17 No. 6
71 pages. Features: Conception Bay Furniture Maker - Henry William Winter; China for Children - Christmas gifts of other days were often replicas of adult tableware; Silver by any other name - Sheffield Plate, Electroplate, Paktong, German Silver, Britannia or britannia?; Chinese Pictorial Tapestries - Fine examples of k'o-ssu, a silk-weaving technique, in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Collecting Glass Target Balls; Game Equipment - the games people play have a long and intriquing history; Restoration and Renovation IV - Reflections on Past Interior Decor; Appraising Your Heirlooms; Nutmeg Graters; The Macdonell House - Nor-Wester's Georgian House on the Ottawa contains elaborate decorative plaster. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Collector Magazine, May/June 1979, Vol. 14 No. 3
Features: Catharine Robb Whyte 1906-1979; Auction at a Polish Farm; The Price Folk Art Collection; The Black-Binney House in Nova Scotia; In Search of a Hitchcock Lamp; Vancouver Stained Glass Windows by John Henry Dearle and Duncan W. Dearle; Canadian Souvenir China. Lovely copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Collector Magazine, November/December 1978, Vol. 13 No. 6
Features: Toronto Print Gallery - Old Etchings, Engravings & Watercolours, Ltd.; Collecting Antique Dolls Today; Steamboats and the China Collector; New Brunswick Sketches; Gingerbread - The Gilded Treat; The Documentary Tradition in Photography; The Humberstone Potteries of North York. Sound copy. Magazine
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Lattimore, Owen
Pacific Affairs: Vol. IX, No. 4 December 1936
114 pages. Topics: The Indivisibility of Peace and the Inseparability of East and West; the Yosemite Conference and Japan; Some Implications of Anglo-Japanese Competition; The Powers and the Unity of China; Smuggler, Soldier, and Diplomat - smuggling in North China 1935-36; A critical Survey of Chinese Policy in Inner Mongolia; The Population Problems of Australia; Land and Sea in the Destiny of Japan; the Fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
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Blum, William
Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
457 pages. Index. "From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, the author provides the most comprehensive study of the ongoing American holocaust." - from back cover. "Far and away the best book on the topic." - Noam Chomsky. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Cross, Rena
China Repairs & Restoration
85 pages. "Explains all types of repairs, from simple regluing to the rebuilding of missing parts of statuettes and figurines. Alternative techniques are fully described, and all the techniques are excellently photographed." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Carney, Dora Sanders
Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai 1933-1939
256 pages. "A personal view of an unforgettable place and its people; as well as a love story, a family portrait, and a fascinating glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman." - from back cover. Very heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Reading copy only. Book
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Smith, E. D.
Battle for Burma
190 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "Takes a fresh look at differing British, U.S. and Chinese strategies in Burma, shedding new light on the part played by China in North Burma and the role of General Stilwell." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn with usual library markings. Worthy reading copy. Book
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Cotterell, Maurice
The Terracotta Warriors: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
302 pages. Index. Bibliography. Colour plates. Hand-written signature of the amazing Maurice Cotterell upon title page. "Shows how Shi Huangdi - like the pharoah Tutankhamun, the Mayan lord Pacal, and Viracocha in Peru - was a keeper of the sacred solar science of the ancients, a science that included a sophisticated understanding of the effect of the sun on earthly affairs, fertility rates, and personality... Cotterell deciphers the emperor's farewell message concealed in the terracotta warriors - a message that reveals the true purpose of the life and the imperishable nature of the soul." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest hint of wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket preserved in Brodart. Beautiful copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine - November/December 1973
Features: Toile de Jouy - textile pattern; Symposium '73; Loyalist Settlement of Upper Canada; British Sporting Prints; Chine Export Trade Porcelain; Chinese Chippendale. Average wear. Address label upon front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Antique Showcase Magazine - Canada's Oldest Antique Magazine: September 1989, Volume 25 Number 3
Features: Calendar Clocks; ROM opens new galleries; Advice for budding archaeologists; Bullocks Wilshire - 60 glorious years; Paradise lost - China collecting in the 1960s; Halifax's new art gallery. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Bluebook Magazine - Adventure in Fact and Fiction: November, 1952, Vol. 96, No. 1
128 pages. Short Stories: The Curse of the North, Some Women are Nicer, Honor Among Thieves, The Man Who Tipped the Croupiers, Element of Chance, Guns aren't for Gentlemen, The Battlefield of Mind, Suicide Drive. Novelettes: The Coming of the Little People, I was the Target. Articles: The Big Noise, Stocks - America's Fastest Growing Sport, Never Call Him a Shamus, Words Women and Wars, The Wreck of the Old 97. Complete Book-Length Novel - China Coaster - Murder and gold among the Chinese Pirates. And more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: 21 September 1996
Features: Daytime Monkeywrenching; Five-Finger Fundraising; Nalgene Supplies Vivisectors; Warner Creek Jailhouse Riot; Jack & China Obituaries; New Merchandise; Summer of Pain Holds; Native/Environmental Alliances. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
British Columbia Historical News: Fall 2002
44 pages. Features: Beauty, Spirituality and Practicality; The Early Art of Emily Carr; When the Flowers Talked; China Painting in Victoria and the Arts and Crafts Movement; The Needle Art of Kathleen O'Reilly; The St. Ann's Academy Art Studio; Yale's Ecclesiastical Textiles; and more. Average wear. Few markings by prior owner. Sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1997
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: June 1969
Features: Japanese Theatre Prints - Part 1; Beaver Teapots; The Walking Rocking Horse; China Mark Research; Edward - King of the Castles; Glass - the great enigma; Ancient Mexican Gold - Four Masterpieces. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Address label on front. Quality copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Logger's Handbook, Volume XLV 1985 - World Markets, Methods & Friends
Approximately 200 pages. Containing articles prepared exclusively for the Loggers Handbook together with the official proceedings of the 75th sessions of the Pacific Logging Congress and the condensed reports of its affiliated organizations prepared by their respectife secretaries. Black and white photos. Great contemporary advertisements, some in colour. Articles include: Norm Jacobsen - logger with a world outlook; Forestry in the People's Republic of China; Pitfalls await in Developing Wood Market in Japan; What's New in Logging Machinery; Making Excelsior; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Helwig, David
The Hundred Old Names
83 pages. "David Helwig visited China last year and this book is the result: pungent, perceptive, illuminating." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Art Journey of Far Eastern Plaza Hotel / A Passage to China: Complete with Slipcase
139 pages. Lavishly illustrated with colour plates. Text in Chinese and English. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear and closed three inch tear to dust jacket. Moderate wear to illustrated slipcase. A quality copy of this magnificent work. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, May 1968 - Canadiana at the Smithsonian
24 pages. Contents: Canadiana at the Smithsonian; The Burlington Glass Site in Hamilton, Ontario; On Collecting Books - article by L.S. Loomer; Painted China Revival; Perfume Bottles; A Plated Article. Average wear. One inch tear to back cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Huang Po-Nien (Translated By Chow Hon Huen)
Hsing-i Fist and Weapon Instruction
112 pages. Reprint of the 1928 first Chinese edition. "Here, for the first time, martial artists were encouraging and openly teaching the Chinese people how to stand on their own and regain pride in their country... Huang's book is often quoted in martial arts literature. This is due, for the most part, to its significance as a manual for training military personel in unarmed and armed combat applications of hsing-i ch'uan. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound reference copy. Book
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Blakemore, Trevor
China Clay
Unpaginated. Approximately 3/8" thick. Contains short poems on Chinese topics, accompanied by handsome black and white illustrations. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Hwuy-Ung; Makepeace, J.A. (Translator)
A Chinaman's Opinion of Us and of His Own People (as Expressed in Letters from Australia to His Friend in China)
322 pages. "The following letters were written by Hwuy-ung, one of the class of literati and a social reformer, to his (and my) friend Tseng between the years 1899 and 1912. They came into my possession through Tseng-Ching, a scholar, who urged me (and helped me) to translate them into English, so that the reforms suggested by his enlightened countryman might meet with due recognition and support from abroad. It was also his intention to have the Chinese version published and distributed among his countrymen, in order (under God's gracious will) that their eyes might be opened to their shortcomings and the race strengthened and rejuvenated." - from Introduction. Red front board attractively decorated in yellow and black. Card pocket inside back board. Library bookplate inside front board. No other markings. Minor lean to spine. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
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