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Historical Pictures: The Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 92 pages. Text in English and Chinese.
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Liu, kwang-Ching (ed.)
American Missionaries in China
Some edgewear with a curled lower corner of the front cover, spine fading. Binding and text/interior are clean and tight. An introduction by the editor, then seven articles on various subjects including missionary contributions to China, the relationship of missionaries to Chinese nationalism or the missionary's relationship to rural problems. 310 pages with index,
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China Social Culture (ed.)
The Best in Modern Chinese Folk Painting
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 179 pages. Many color illustrations. Includes paintings from regions all over China.
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Henry, William Jay Rathbun and Catherine A. Kaputa Trubner
Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 300 pages. 8 3/4"w x 10 1/2"h.
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Fairservis, Walter A.
Costumes of the East
Ex-institutional library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Text block and boards both have sharp corners, no edge or corner wear, binding is very tight. Dust jacket is worn with multiple small tears and chipping at edges, heavy scuffing, no large or open tears. 160 pages on heavy paper with color plates on glossy paper. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Contents include costume of Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine, Near East, Iran, (Persia) Afghanistan, Central Asia, India and Pakistan, High Borderlands, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, tibet, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, Southeast Siberia, Manchuria, Hokkaido, Bonins & Siberia with b&w illustrations of typical clothing and then several full-page museum quality color photos of examples of actual clothing for MOST of the above regions.
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Yunhua, Hu
Penjing: The Chinese Art of Miniature Gardens
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 166 pages. Many photos and illustrations. Tears on dust jacket.
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Clements, Johathan
Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 239 pages with several pages of b&w photos.
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Gillette, Maris Boyd
Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages. Slight edge wear.
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Guan Jing Yu (ed.); Li Cheung Sang
Li Cheung Sang Ink Drawings
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes 40 ink drawings. Slight wear to cover.
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Chinese Paintings
9 5/8"wide x 12 3/4"tall. Full cloth boards (raw silk?) with gilt Chinese characters. 135 pages. Full color prints; 140 printed pages of color paintings with bilingual Chinese and English text. Dust jacket worn around edges with small tears.
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Chinese Rubbings
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Catalogue of color and black and white rubbings. Text in English and Chinese. No date given; circa 1980. 8 5/8"w x 8 184"h.
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Wang Shu (editor)
Lamasery of Harmony and Peace
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Many color photographs of Yonghegong temple in Beijing with accompanying text. 8 1/4"w x 81/4"h. Slight foxing to endpapers.
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Wenjie, Duan (Editor)
The Cream of Dunhuang Art /Tun-huang i shu ching hua
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 127 pages. 9 7/8"w x 9 1/2"h. "This picture-album offers you 136 masterpieces of the mural paintings, painted sculptures, silk-paintings, brick-paintings and calligraphies in Dunhuang art, adding an academic thesis and the simple explanations of the plates." Text in English and Chinese.
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Gunn, Edward M.
Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking 1937-1945 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 334 pages.
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Smith, Susan
Made in France
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages, plus section of b&w photos. Black and white illustrations by Walter Stewart throughout. Full gray cloth boards. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. For ages ten and up.
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Chen, Jason, C.S.
4 World-Famous Chinese Green Teas: Dragonwell, Bi Luo Chun, Mao Feng and Steamed Green Tea (A Tea Lover's Travel Diary II
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Covers show light shelf wear only, binding is solid, square and tight and text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Book shows very little wear. A huge number of color photographs, text in Chinese and English, 300 pages.
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Chicago, Judy
The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage
Black cloth covers have sharp corners with lower back worn. A little fading at upper and lower spine edge, otherwise very clean with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top spine, is price clipped, has edge wear, chipping at hinge edges; no tears greater than 1/2". The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
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Chicago, Judy
The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage
Black cloth covers have sharp corners, fading at lower spine, a llittel along the bottom edge. Very light scuffing to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top edge with numerous open tears, none larger than an inch. Jacket at lower spine is chipped away at hinges, general chipping and wear, not price clipped. The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
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HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART
Hong Kong, the changing scene: A record in Art
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Exhibition catalog for show at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 8/2/80 -- 9/3/80. Oblong format, 11" wide with 58 color and b&w full page prints depicting the historical and gradual development of Hong Kong harbor and city as recorded in painting and drawing. Descriptions in Chinese and English on the L. page with the print on the R. Text/interior is spotless and printed on heavy paper.
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AU HANG
The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square in dark grey cloth with embossed character on the cover. Covers have sharp corners, except for lower corner of front cover is bumped. This is the only blemish to the book. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 265 pages with standard format being four photos on R. page with descriptions on L. page. This is sometimes varied. Contents includes Glass, Jade, Quartz & chalcedony, Other stones, Organic materials, Metals, Ceramics, Enamels, Inside-painted, Accessories. With Forword, Preface, Reigns of the Qing Dynasty and Selected bibliography.
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Yun, Cai
Basic Chinese Boxing
247 pages with b&w illustrations with movement lines on nearly every page. Chapters include Fists, palms, hooks and claws, Leg snapping (cutting and smashing, two feet kick, patting and locking ), Strength boxing, Hand to hand fight boxing, etc. Text is in Chinese and English.
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Chua , Soo Pong
Change and Innovation in Chinese Opera
Book is in excellent condition. New. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Text is in English & Chinese. B&W photos, 183 pages. Sticker has been removed from half title page.
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Rudy, Stella M.
Children of China
Small format hardback with pictorial cover on paper-covered boards. 6 7/8"w x 5 7/8"h. Unpaginated; approx. 60 pages. Previous owner's name inside. Many b&w photos (two colored neatly by previous owner). Pages show darkening around the edges.
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Li Zi Jian Paintings of 1994 (Humanity and Love: International Exhibition )
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes pamphlet from tour. Text in Chinese and English. 60 pages. 9 3/4"w x 9 3/4"h. Essays: "The Transcendent Realism of Li Zijian" by Dennis Wepman; "A Dinner with Poetry and Intelligence - My Impressions about Li Zijian's New Oil Paintings of 1994" by Xio Liang Zeng. Color reproductions.
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Liang, Fang-Chung
The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 74 pates. "The most thorough study yet available of the systematic commutation of taxes-in-kind and labor-service into silver payments in the late Ming period, this monograph has an important background value for any study of the growth of money economy in modern China."
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Hill, Beth ; Cathy Converse
The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley 1769 - 1845
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Till, Barry; Paula Swart
Porcelain of the High Qing 1662 - 1795 : The Brian S. McElney Collection
Exhibition catalog for the show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in '83 and the Vancouver Art Gallery in '85. Unpaginated, about 55 pages with a Historical Background with sections: Porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662 - 1722), .. of the Yongzheng period (1728 - 35), the Qianlong period (1736 - 95), followed by 188 photos of examples of the various types, most in b&w. Bibliography at back. Covers show very light shelf wear only, interior/text is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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John Rabe
The Good German of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe
Book is in excellent condition, one page is dog-eared as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Incredible story of the wholesale butchery by the Japanese military invading the civilian occupied city of Nanking and the Nazi sympathizers who acted in a medical capacity to save large numbers of people.
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Fredrikke S. Scollard; Terese Tse Bartholomew; Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Shiwan Ceramics: Beauty, Color, and Passion (English and Chinese Edition)
Exhibition catalog in excellent condition in every respect from the show of the same name at the Publisher's gallery from June to October 1994. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 110 pages with deep red end papers, heavily illustrated with large full color prints of the sculptural pieces that make the show, usually two pieces per page. Text in English and Chinese.
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Burgis, Tom
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 323 pages with a few with b&w photos.
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Jan Fontein
Han and T'ang Murals: Discovered in tombs in the People's Republic of China and copied by contemporary Chinese painters
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 131 pp., illus. mostly b&w, some color. Cataloge of an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in cooperation with the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C. Size: 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. 141 paintings illustrated and described.
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Sanada, Ryo ; Suridh Hassan
Graffiti Asia
Book is in excellent condition with very minor wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Includes unused CD at back, guranteed to operate as new. 128 pages, heavily illustrated, with graffiti from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
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Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane
Peonies: The Imperial Flower
Book shows light wear to covers, previous owner's name on half title page blacked out,. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illustrated with large color photos, history of to chapter 5, then current peonies with 80 of the best commercially available intersectional hybrids, and 125 of the herbaceous peonies. Then several sections on growing.
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Stone engravings in Huizhou District / Hui zhou shi diao yi shu
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Text in Chinese and English. 10 1/8"w x 9 7/8"h. Many b&w photos.
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
North to the Orient
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards with silver airplane design. Map endpapers. 256 pages. Previous owner's name inside.
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Man, John
Gobi: Tracking the Desert
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 212 pages. Topics include: Mongolia, Sandstorms, Russia, China, Communism, Herdsmen, National Parks, Mountains, Stand-Stone Canyons, Dunes, Singing Sands, Snow Leopards, Desert Bears, Wild Horses, Roy Chapman Andrews, Dinosaur Eggs, Flaming Cliffs, Michael Noacek,
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Turner, Robert D.
Pacific Empresses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress Liners on the Pacific Ocean
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and interior/text is clean with no marking of any kind. 290 pages with over 400 illustrations including b&w photos throughout, mechanical diagrams, layouts, maps, scale drawings, fleet lists, etc.
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Olympic Hotel
Guest Informant: Seattle
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for one ad with a location note in pen. Tourist guide from the Olympic Hotel for sights and establishments in Seattle. Publication date is estimated. Articles and ads throughout for such things as the Space Needle restaurant, Frederick and Nelson, I.Magnin, Baby & co. Pier 70, El Gaucho, Four Seas, China Gate, Gim Wah, the Wharf, Victoria Station, Merchants cafe, the Kingdome, Rosellini's Other Place, McCormicks, Bush garden, etc.
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Van Dine, Alan
Unconventional Builders
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name stamp inside. Dust jacket has several closed tears. Illustrated with photos. 184 pages. 12 1/4"w x 10 1/4"h.
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Backlin-Landman, Hedy; Edna Shapiro
The Odyssey Library 23: The Story of Porcelain
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Shiny pictorial cover. Small format: 6 1/2"w x 4 1/8"h. Approx. 50 pages. #23 in The Odyssey Library Series.
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Madeline's Travel Scrapbook
A travel scrapbook for children featuring the Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline character. 8 7/8"w x 5 1/2"h. Eight pages printed on heavy cardstock; one for each country: China, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, and Mexico. Ribbon binding. No date shown; circa 1980's.
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Hung, Wu; Phillips, Christopher
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
Book is in excellent condition with lightly bumped corners only. Black cloth binding is otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 224 pages packed with large color photos.
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Campbell, Joseph
Occidental Mythology [Masks of God series]
Book is in excellent condition, Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Chang, Tsong-Zung
China's New Art, Post-1989/With a Retrospective from 1979-1989
Very large hardback shows some edge wear. Tears and edge wear to dust jacket. Slight marking. Crease to front endpaper. 10"w x 13 3/4"h. 234 pages.
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Dysart, Dinah
Asian Women Artists
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tears on worn dust jacket. Full gray cloth boards. 9"w 9 3/4"h. 144 pages. Many color illustrations.
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Erickson, Britta; Xu, Bing
The Art of Xu Bing: Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words (Asian Art and Culture)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 84 pages; 39 color illustrations; 16 b&w illustrations.
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China Avant-Garde: Counter-Currents in Art and Culture
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 8 3/8"w x 10 3/4"h. 324 pages.
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Chou, Chuang; James R. Ware
Sayings of Chuang Chou
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 240 pages, sections include: Nature's cycles, Bliss, Understanding life, T'ien Wu-tse, Symbols, Robber Chih, Swords, Lieh Yu-k'ou, etc.
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Raskin, Jonah
Radical Jack London, The; Writings on War and Revolution
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes but a few very small marks, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 285 pages; contents include: Boy Socalist, The economics of the Klondike, People of the abyss, How I became a socialist, What shall be done with this boy? Japanese officers consider everything a military secret, Revolution, Apostate, The Iron Heel , Martin Eden, If Japan wakens China, Burning daylight, Intro to Alexander Berkman's Prison memoirs of an anarchist, John Barleycorn: alcoholic memoirs, The star rover, etc.
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Rea, Dennis
Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan
Book is in excellent condition, back cover appears to have gold paint at upper corner. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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