‎China‎

‎Copper John F.‎

‎The Taiwan Political Miracle: Essays on Political Development Elections and Foreign Relations‎

‎Lanham Maryland: University Press of America. New. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 076180112X . New book in as new condition. No DJ as issued. ; 1.6 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 612 pages . University Press of America hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 13417 ISBN : 076180112X 9780761801122

‎U. S. Department of Health‎

‎A Barefoot Doctor's Manual: DHEW Publication No. NIH 75-695‎

‎Washington D. C.: U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare Public Health Service. Very Good. 1974. Paperback. Cover is clean with very little wear. there are a few light creases. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. This is a translation of a Chinese manual for health-care professionals in Hunan Province covering traditional medicine Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture; also basic trauma care and some surgical procedures. ; Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 960 pages . U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 13438

‎Wimsatt Genevieve‎

‎Apricot Cheeks and Almond Eyes‎

‎Morningside Heights NY: Columbia University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with printed paper label on spine is clean and unworn. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Lacking DJ. Biography of Empress Yang. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 123 pages . Columbia University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 11794

‎China Corporation Register of Shipping‎

‎Rules and Regulations for the Construction and Classification of steel Ships 1973‎

‎Taiwan: China Corporation 1973. a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR -----. No Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good Hardback/No Dustjacket. 7 x 10". China Corporation Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 47476A

‎Cheng Nien‎

‎Life and Death in Shanghai‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Penguin Books 1988. Spine and Cover have edge and corner wear. Pages and Binding are clean and tight. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Penguin Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 130123 ISBN : 014010870X 9780140108705

‎CHINA. SOWERBY Arthur de Carle Ed. & MOISE Clariece S. Manager.‎

‎Chinese Soviet Coins and Notes; I-Shing and its sacred caves; Bee-keeping in Fukien Province; Malacology; Shooting and fishing notes. . . In: The China Journal Vol. XXVI No. 3.‎

‎Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press March 1937. Tall 8vo. A29 5 113-166 A31-44 pp. With photo plates maps photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers lettering in gray & black minor chipping head & foot of spine 1 small closed tear still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest are the articles directly referring to the energy and efforts of the government of Chiang-Kai Shek as well as an extensive illustrated article on Chinese Soviet coins and bank notes detailing all the Communist issued monies from 1931-1934 centered out of Hunan China. China Journal, Printed by The Mercury Press, paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 56739

‎CHINA. WELLER Harold A. Comp.‎

‎The missionary’s manual of Chinese Correspondence In English & Chinese.‎

‎Shanghai: China Inland Mission 1932. Two parts in one. 8vo. 16 pp.; 1 51 1 leaves. Chinese title printed in black English title printed in red & black. Facsimile letters reduced in English section from the Chinese section. Gray limp oil cloth black lettering front & back covers minor shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this unusually scarce and invaluable handbook for English-speaking missionaries to China in the 1930s devoted freeing them from having to consult Chinese scholars to write and process their correspondence. The author encourages Chinese literacy and has supplied fifty different sample letters written in Wen-li in order to provide straightforward models for the potential inquirer. Wen-li was a term coined by Christian missionaries for classical literary Chinese and was never used in that sense either by the Chinese themselves or non-missionary Sinologues. China Inland Mission, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 56735

‎China Knowledge Press‎

‎China Business & Travel Guide: 2002/3 Edition‎

‎China Knowledge Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from Reno NV. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! China Knowledge Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP117239519 ISBN : 9810459629 9789810459628

‎CHINA. TOWNLEY Lady Susan.‎

‎My Chinese note book. . . .‎

‎London: Methuen & Co. 1904. Thick 8vo. xiii 1 338 2 pp. plus 4 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated Sept. 1904. Frontisp. 15 plates 2 folding maps Chinese Empire Peking Forbidden City. Red decorated cloth illustration of Chinese Dragon on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor bumping & scuffing to corners minor shelfwear still VG bright copy. Second edition of this intriguing memoir by Lady Townley who has not only included an abreviated history of China and Chinese history including the Boxer Rebellion but also pointed observations of the Dowager Empress Cixi’s Court. As wife of Walter Townley British Foreign Minister she had a keen eye for the absurd and decidedly biting comments on Chinese court life and customs. She would later write in her 1922 indiscretions that Cixi was “a funny old lady.†See: Hayler-Menies Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling 2008 pp. 187-188 349 365. Methuen & Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 56112

‎CHINA PHOTO ALBUM.‎

‎A remarkable photo album documenting harrowing travel during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 into Shanxi Province images showing casualties being carted lying on the ground armed guards the Yang Chang oil company prisoners for execution traveling on the SS Mongolia and more. In addition there are photos of subsequent travel in Japan Japanese crafts and street scenes.‎

‎Taiyung Beijing Shanghai China & Japan: n.p. 1911-1913. Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 7.25 in. 66 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 148 silver gelatin silver print & albumen photos sized from 2 x 2.5 in. up to 4 x 5.5 in. w/ the majority sized approx. 3.5 x 4.5 in. many w/ pen or pencil annotations in lower margins or w/in the images some dated most mounted or tipped in either w/ gray corners or black corners. Limp textured black cloth post-binder brass screw-posts at gutter margin occasional edgewear minor tears to a couple images wear & rubbing to spine of covers still VG exemplar. This intriguing photo album documents the travel through China during the Xinhai Revolution by a well-to-do oil merchant and family. The album opens with shots in and around the Shanxi Province which after the fall of the Qing Dynasty became the earliest bases for the Communist Party and peasants recruited to join the People’s Revolution. The photos show a typical Chinese Inn the stone bridge leading into the Shanxi Province armed guards in the party with all holding weapons casualties being carried away from the battlefields as well as Chinese street beggars. Several photos show the crossing of the Yellow River the stark landscape water tower as well as battlefield casualties one with dogs dragging around a corpse’s head while another shows Chinese prisoners chained to stakes with their heads covered in wicker baskets. Also shown are the buildings and workers for the Yang Chang Yanchang Oil Company originally founded in 1905 with oil derricks and drilling equipment while still another includes the written caption “Ahlo’s Coal Mine near Peking.†Also included are images of the group traveling on the Marie B. cabin cruiser out of Shanghai Chinese Junks on the Yangtze River in the harbor Chinese peddlers river scenes iconic bridges and temples. There are several views of Beijing the American Legation building in Beijing the city wall Canal Street and a few of the famed ancient observatory followed by views of the group leaving on the SS Mongolia in 1913 and traveling to Japan and views of coaling the ship in Nagasaki Japan. At the time the SS Mongolia was a 13369 ton passenger and cargo liner for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. later for the US Navy and later as the President Fillmore for the Dollar Line. Many of the images in Japan show workers in bronze women weaving silk farming hauling wood and creating elaborate lacquer ware. [n.p.], hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 56114

‎China Sports Magazine Staff‎

‎The Wonders of Qigong : A Chinese Exercise for Fitness Health and Longevity‎

‎Wayfarer Publications 1985. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Wayfarer Publications paperback‎

Bookseller reference : G0935099077I5N00 ISBN : 0935099077 9780935099072

‎CHINA. HOWARD MDHarvey J. M. D.‎

‎Ten weeks with Chinese bandits. With illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author.‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead and Co. 1927. 8vo. xiv 2 272 pp. Title in red & black photo frontisp. numerous photo plates plates. Black cloth red dragon illust. on front cover red lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art of dragon on a map of Manchuria China light sunning shelfwear minor edgewear NF/VG copy. First edition of this rousing memoir of Dr. Howard and his son being kidnapped by the Dragon River Bandits in Manchuria in 1925 and held for 10 weeks. Howard 1880-1956 had been the head of the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Union Medical College in Peking as well as serving as ophthalmologist to Pu Yi the boy emperor from 1921-1925 and was able to finally escape the gang due to his linguistic abilities and treating their assorted ailments while held captive. Scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead and Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 55237

‎CHINA KOREA JAPAN & PHILIPPINES TRAVEL ALBUMS. HOWARD Gertrude G.‎

‎Phi Delta Kappa Eighty-Day Educational Tour of the Orient under the direction of Dean Emory S. Bogardus and Dr. William Giles Campbell. An extraordinary pair of photo album souvenir scrapbooks tracing the 1936 goodwill tour to Asia with extensive typescript manuscript journal notes photographs souvenirs brochures itineraries catalogues postcards and more by this intrepid Inglewood public school teacher just prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.‎

‎Inglewood CA: Gertrude G. Howard 1936. Two vols. Oblong folio. 14.5 x 11 in. 48; 48 pp unapinated. on thick paper stock w/ most pages containing typescript manuscript notes by Howard. With 81 silver gelatin photos sized from 2.5 x 4 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 100s of colour-illustrated menus travel brochures luggage tags postcards Real Photo Postcards paper souvenirs mimeograph itineraries telegrams TLS ALS business cards couple with fabric samples maps folding maps and more. Uniformly in original beige & red patterned post-binder albums sewn at gutter margins with copper-coloured silk braids wear rubbing rubbing to corners minor tears to a few leaves sewing starting on vol. II a few pieces lifted still a remarkable set. This marvelous pair of travel photo albums and scrapbooks provides an excellent first-hand account of China Japan Korea and The Philippines just prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The extensive typescript manuscript commentary by a member of the Phi Delta Kappa travel group was part of tour group with USC Sociology professor and dean Emory Bogardus 1882-1973 and law professor William Campbell who organized these tours in order to provide cultural and social contacts between the United States and other Pacific Rim nations. With an emphasis on sociological and cultural lectures offered at various stops along with visits to schools business and cultural sites in the countries on the itinerary these Phi Delta Kappa and other similar non-profit groups worked diligently between the Wars to reduce animosity amongst international ethnic groups. Departing on the SS Taiyo Maru of the N.Y.K. line on June 20 1936 nearly 90 teachers educators and professors traveled with Mrs. Howard who carefully lists the participants includes photos of the life saving drills the huge bathtubs along with poses with the ship’s officers attended lectures in their private dining room and even includes beautifully printed colour woodblock printed menus. Her journal records her awe with the size and beauty of Yokohama’s harbor which she had always dreamed of seeing details visits to schools such as girl’s school in Yokohama with photo of girls using abacuses in math buying souvenirs and artwork. Her lively commentary notes 14-year old Japanese girls working as conductors for tourists in National Parks such as Mt. Aso; not being able to view Mt. Fuji due to being caught on buses in the pouring rain; the cleanliness and timeliness of the Japanese trains and how Japanese baths succeed in “boiling the dirt off.†In addition the outlines several additional visits to Japanese schools including primary schools a girls middle school where they viewed classes at work girls performing traditional Japanese dances followed up by a visit to the Katakura Silk Filature Company. One section of her journal notes the means by which Japan seemed to maintain full employment was by employing 100s of Japanese laborers passing small wicker baskets of coal from worker to worker from dock and down into the bunkers for fueling of their steamships. The tour continues by visiting Shanghai with a journal entry about the danger from piracy in the China Sea sans Clark Gable and Jean Harlow and how their ship had taken on a contingent of well-armed Russian soldier the iron gate leading to third class was heavily locked and guarded and guards patrolled all decks with checkpoints around the ship. She has included a map souvenir of Shanghai descriptions of the city and other souvenirs tipped-in include one of the very scarce Shanghailander Almanacs edited and published by Carl Crow complete with the folding colour map of Shanghai. Her journal notes that the best show in town is the amazing vaudeville show by performers on Junks and at the piers including tumblers sleight of hand artists puppeteers contortionists dancers clowns and others entertaining the tourists and travelers arriving and disembarking at the docks. These notes are followed with extensive journal entry about seasickness from approaching typhoon the rough seas and the real possibility of not making the next port of call. After a visit and lecture tour stop in Manila The Philippines which encompassed a tour of the University together with her observations on the tropical lushness of the flowers fruits rice patties women washing clothes and then traveling onto Hong Kong. She writes about the beauty of Hong Kong harbor sightseeing and shopping. The typescript details an excursion to Sun Yat-Sen University in Canton visiting the Victoria Hotel the teaming 1000s of Chinese women and men laborers in and around the docks. The advisory notes provided by the tour are quite emphatic in mentioning skin infections intestinal infections and parasites to avoid eating fresh vegetables and fruits because they cause diarrhea and how any fever should be immediately reported to the ship’s doctor. She notes the extreme poverty in China children constantly following the tourist groups picking up scraps of food off the street street beggars covered in sores and 1000s trying to earn a few coppers from tourists and how the filth in the streets except for the International settlements was indescribable. The Phi Delta Kappas entrain through central China visit Peking the forbidden city the Peking Union Church stay at the Grand Hotel and include photos and observations on the Ming Tomb the floating palace of the Empress Dowager and the Temple of Heaven. Ms. Howard writes of the astonishing variety of goods available in Peking with stalls stretching out everywhere selling furs embroidered silks silver jade linen and woolen goods as well as the teaming streets filled with tourists vendors and Chinese. The tour then moved onto visiting Hsinking the capital of Japanese-controlled Manchuria Manchukuo described the fortifications and security measures reaching the city photo of her group in the Yamato Hotel followed by visits to Harbin a symphony featuring Tchaikovsky music sponsored by the Railway Club Harbin Mukden and then onto Korea Chosen. She notes visiting the Heisang Girls School the Heijo Missions the extreme poverty and starvation of many Koreans under the Japanese occpation and more. They sale home via the Empress of Japan August 26 1935 from Pusan with stops in Yokohama Honolulu and Victoria BC. Howard b. 1897 was a teacher in Inglewood CA had attended the University of Southern California and would by World War II become the principal of her school. Gertrude G. Howard, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 54622

‎CHINA. HOBART Alice Tisdale & AYSCOUGH Florence Wheelock.‎

‎Within the walls of Nanking.‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Co. 1929. 8vo. 243 1 pp. Photo frontisp. plates maps. Tan publisher’s cloth green lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of walls of Nanking minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear still NF/VG copy from the library of Marjorie Fleishhacker Mitau 1906-1983 and Martin Mitau 1900-1973 noted San Francisco collectors of fine printing and members in the Roxburghe Club and Book Club of California w/ their bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this graphic memoir by these two noted authors relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American fice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Royal Navy and US Navy cruisers and destroyers responded engaging and driving off the NRA soldiers and Chinese rioters evacuating many foreigners including the families of Hobart & Ayscough to Shanghai. The Macmillan Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 54544

‎CHINA. HELMER Frederic F. Ed..‎

‎China’s need; Toil and conflict on the Honan plain; A visit to Peking; New Year Feasts writing from Szechwan; Reaching China; Through Anhwei Province; Headquarters at Shanghai; Faithful believers among head-hunters and Lisu; Kansu and the great beyond; The witness of Wenchow women; A journey Further Northwest outside the Great Wall; To the tribes work in Szechwan. . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXIV Nos. 1-3 5 9-10.‎

‎Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Jan.-Oct. 1926. Six vols. 4to. 15 1; 17-31 1; 33-47 1; 65-79 1; 129-143 1; 145-159 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. China Inland Mission, paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 53912

‎CHINA. HELMER Frederic F. Ed..‎

‎On the Tibetan border; Under the red flag; A hospital waiting for its staff. . . Luan Hospital; The occupation of Hankow; Down the Yellow River from Kangsu; Strenuous times in Anhwei; Panghai after six years; A brigand raid; Contending armies in Anhwei . . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXV Nos. 2-3; 9-12.‎

‎Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-Dec. 1927. Six vols. 4to. 17-51 1; 153-231 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. In addition there are a few special mentions that the “Christian†Chinese are the most resistant to the Communists forces. Of special interest are the inclusion and special centerfold supplements of the Young China magazine which was issued for children in the China Inland Mission and young children in China. China Inland Mission, paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 53914

‎CHINA FAIRY TALES. CARPENTER Frances Aretta.‎

‎Tales of a Chinese grandmother. Illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis.‎

‎Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. 1945. Tall 8vo. xii 2 261 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous colour plates black & white text illustrations. Yellow cloth red lettering on spine butterfly illust. on front cover illust. endpapers w/ d.j. cover art by Hasselriis chipping & tears to upper fore-edge of front & back cover still NF/G- copy from the library of Alice Brown Powell 1882-1971 who was responsible for naming the historic “Deepwood†home in Salem OR named after a favorite children’s book by Albert Bigelow Paine. Early printing of this title in the author’s “Grandmother†fairy tale series companion volume to Tales of a Korean Grandmother and Tales of a Russian Grandmother. Hasselriis 1888-1970 noted Danish miniaturist known for his paintings of Pearl S. Buck Madame Chiang Kai-shekc and President Kennedy. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 53732

‎Mieville China‎

‎Kraken‎

‎New York: Del Rey. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 034549749X . International orders may require additional postage. ; Simply signed on the title page by China Mieville. Full number line. ; 1.8 x 9.2 x 6.2 Inches; 528 pages; Signed by Author . Del Rey hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 28720 ISBN : 034549749X 9780345497499

‎CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS.‎

‎In Chinese & English. Views of China. Volume 1; Volume 2 Cover title.‎

‎Shanghai China: Commercial Press Ltd. Minguo 9 1920. Oblong 8vo. 44; 44 pp. With 89 photographic plates & illustrations all identified in Chinese & English. Original printed softcovers black lettering on front covers of both vols. Commercial Press company logo on back covers minor dustsoiling creasing small Merry Xmas labels on left fore-edge of front covers still a VG- set. First edition of this scarce photographic souvenir of China soon while Sun Yat-Sen was attempting to establish the Chinese Republican Party as the ruler of China during the Guandong-Guangxi War which resulted in the Military Government in Guangzhou 1921-1925 and then the National Government 1925-1927. This fascinating photographic survey of China depicts the cities towns villages rivers temples including the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang Hubei the Iron Bridge over the Yellow River which was finished in 1907 at the end of the Qing Dynasty the famed railway tunnel of Man-shan on the Peking-Hankow Railway in Hunan Province historic sites as well as images of the Tibetan Himalayas including Mt. Everest as the last photo. Commercial Press in Shanghai printed a number of these “Views of China†from about 1910 to 1925 most with different photo images from each other and varying number of pages and formats. No copies located in Worldcat 1 copy of a 1915 edition with similar pagination located at Univ. of London. Commercial Press, Ltd., paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 53104

‎Mieville China‎

‎King Rat‎

‎New York: Tor Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312890737 . International orders may require additional postage. ; Full number line. ; 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 318 pages . Tor Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27514 ISBN : 0312890737 9780312890735

‎Mieville China‎

‎Perdido Street Station‎

‎New York: Del Rey. Fine. 2001. First American Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0345443020 . International orders may require additional postage. ; Full number line. . Del Rey paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26580 ISBN : 0345443020 9780345443021

‎CHINA. MORRISON Hedda.‎

‎A photographer in old Peking. With a foreword by Wang Gungwu.‎

‎Oxford Hong Kong & New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1985. 4to. ix 1 266 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates throughout. Gray boards gilt lettering on spine maps on endpapers minor shelfwear w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this striking photographic memoir of northern China from 1933 to 1946 by a photographer who had escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to take charge of a German-owned photographic studio in Peking. She is considered to have been one of the finest photographers who has ever worked in Asia. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 52228

‎CHINA MONGOLIA. MA HO T'IEN.‎

‎Chinese agent in Mongolia. Translated by John De Francis. Introduction by Owen Lattimore.‎

‎Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1949. 8vo. xvi 215 1 pp. With diagrams maps on endpapers. Gray cloth blue lettering w/ d.j. minor chipping foot of spine couple minor closed tears price-clipped still NF/VG- copy. First edition in English of this exciting travel account through northwest China and the Mongolian People’s Republic and the Buriat Republic in the Soviet Union by this Chinese Communist political agent from 1926 to 1927. The Johns Hopkins Press, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 52094

‎CHINA ART. ZHANG Zeduan.‎

‎In Japanese. Qingming shang he tu Along the river during the Qingming Festival.‎

‎Kyoto: n.p. ca. Taisho 1-15 1912-1926. 4to. 20 pp unnumbered illustrated throughout and printed in red & black on gold silk bound in accordion-style format w/ embossed gray silk covers printed label mounted on front cover rounded corners minor shelfwear slight rubbing very minor bowing to covers slight soiling to couple leaves at lower fore-edge imperceptible on image still an excellent copy. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce and deluxe Japanese production of the famed Song Dynasty painting by Zhang Zeduan 1085-1145 capturing daily life street and river scenes during the Qingming Festival in Bianjing Kaifeng. This painting is considered one of the great treasures of China and the Song Dynasty original and the Qing dynasty originals are preserved as national treasures in Beijing and Taipei respectively. The long sprawling work includes 100s of human figures period boats sedan chairs temples merchants working peddlers jugglers monks and a boat nearly crashing into the central bridge. No copies located in Worldcat; National Library of Australia has an exemplar 6333308. n.p., unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 51698

‎CHINA. ETHERTON Colonel PT. & TILTMAN H. Hessell. P. T.‎

‎Manchuria the cockpit of Asia. . . .‎

‎New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1932. 8vo. x 327 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates 1 folding map. Yellow-ribbed cloth black lettering on front cover & spine minor soiling slight lean minor wear to corners front inner hinge starting ex-lib stamps on endpapers title d.j. flaps mounted on endpapers G- reference copy. First edition of this insightful and prescient account of Manchuria publishes just after the Japanese began their invasion of China to set up the puppet state called Manchukuo which lasted until the end of World War II. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 51571