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1976ref. 544470Taipei Taiwan: Meadea Enterprise Co. Inc 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 173pp. Red cloth lettered in silver. Fine in about fine unprinted plastic dust jacket with the author's printed name and address in Hawaii on a card inside front flap. Inscribed by the author. Memoir with a religious focus of a Chinese woman living in Hawaii. Meadea Enterprise Co., Inc hardcover books
1924ref. 545540New York: Henry Holt 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Edited by Frederick H. Koch. Fine in very good dust jacket with the spine lightly toned and a very faint stain price overstamped on front panel likely by the publisher a handsome example of the scarce jacket. Thomas Wolfe's first hardcover book appearance - his early play The Return of Buck Gavin featuring a photo of Wolfe in the lead role. Other contributors include Erma and Paul Green Elizabeth A. Lay Lucy M. Cobb and Frances Gray. Henry Holt hardcover books
1980ref. 201836San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation 1980. Paperback. v98p. 11x8.5 inches oblong paperback illustrated with period photos and reproductions text in English with a portion in Chinese wraps worn old price in blue pencil on half-title else very good condition. Chinese Culture Foundation paperback books
1952ref. 64647NY: Dell 1952. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. First Printing. Slight spine lean wraps a bit darkened and rubbed else very good. Dell paperback books
1972ref. 72955Hong Kong: Food and Beverage Industry Publishing House 1972. Third edition first published in 1963 8vo pp. 4 iii 3 228; fine clean copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. A dictionary of culinary terms in English and Chinese various menus including that for the soda fountain wine and liquor lists menus for ocean liners and airplanes ingredients lists etc. Georgetown Stanford Columbia Toronto and the University of Hong Kong in OCLC. Food and Beverage Industry Publishing House unknown books
1895ref. 73172TÅkiÅ: Shueisha 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 4 149 1; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front hinge reinforced with white paper; light wear and the binding a touch dull; all else very good sound and clean. The text is printed in a grid pattern 30 grids to a page each with a Chinese character the Chinese pronunciation and meanings in Japanese and English. Contemporary ownership signature of Robert Charles Hope F.S.A. Hope 1855-1926 the author of The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells Of England including Rivers Lakes Fountains and Springs 1893 and The Temples and Shrines of Nikko 1896. Seven in OCLC only Yale Berkeley and NYPL in the U.S. Shueisha unknown books
1981ref. 73242Paris: Beauchesne 1981. First edition 8vo pp. 525 3; original stiff yellow wrappers; fine in a very good blue pictorial dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on half-title to Father Charles Kannengiesser with Kannengiesser's ownership stamp below. Beauchesne unknown books
2011ref. 64096Carlisle PA: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College 2011. First edition 8vo pp. vi 329 1; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. The 2010 People's Liberation Army PLA conference focused on "solid evidence-based evaluation of what the PLA has learned from the use of force and conflict elsewhere in the world is needed to shed light on the prospects for its cooperation or rivalry with the international community. This volume provides unique valuable insights on how the PLA has applied the lessons learned from others' military actions to its own strategic planning" Amazon. Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College unknown books
1969ref. 63319Taipei: Office of the Military Historian 1969. Oblong 8vo pp. xiii 9 426; portraits name date of birth and home town with English translations full blue cloth gilt; portraits sometimes of poor quality due to the facsimile nature of the text pages clean and sound near fine. Office of the Military Historian unknown books
1980ref. 35992San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation 1980. First edition oblong 8vo pp. v 1 98; illustrated throughout; errata slip laid in as issued; slight edge wear else near fine. Chinese Culture Foundation unknown books
1983ref. 87722Berkeley: Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 1983. First edition. xvii 450 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy with his bookplate inside the front cover. Berkeley: Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series, unknown books
1997ref. 72192Hong Kong/Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press 1997. First edition. xxvi 873 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Hong Kong/Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, unknown books
1992ref. 41992Point Reyes Station: Floating Island 1992. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Omission slip laid in. Point Reyes Station: Floating Island, unknown books
1992ref. 40285San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America 1992. Paperback. 237p. wraps very good condition. Chinese Historical Society of America paperback books
1989ref. 18797Champaign IL: Leisure Press 1989. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. The Summitt Season by Nancy E. Lay signed by Tennessee Vol's head coach Pat Summitt. Octavo xi 1 145pp. Blue cloth title stamped in silver. The first printing with a full number line. Appears unread. In the publisher's dust jacket $14.95 retail price small chip to edge of rear panel otherwise in fine condition. Signed on the front free endpaper: " Best Wishes! Pat Head Summitt." Pat Summitt 1952-2016 was the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers women's basketball team from 1974 to 2012. She achieved a record of 1098-208 becoming the first NCAA basketball coach-men's or women's-to reach 1000 career wins and led Tennessee to eight national championships 1987 1989 1991 1996-1998 2007 2008. She also served as head coach of the U.S. women's national team winning a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2011 she continued coaching one final season before retiring later establishing the Pat Summitt Foundation to support research and care for the disease. Leisure Press unknown books
2009ref. 16357Bloomington IN: AuthorHouse 2009. Hardcover. NEW. 94 pp. Octavo. Straw colored covers. Signed by the author on the title page. New. AuthorHouse hardcover books
2005ref. 92492Stanford: Stanford University 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations 134p. Original wire comb binding. 28 cm. Accompanying video disc and software CD-Rom are not present and we see no place for them to have been inserted in this copy. Stanford University paperback books
1928ref. 75571Chapel Hill: UNC Press 1928. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 98p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Short tear on title-leaf. University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin Vol. VII No. 14. "An Outline for Individual and Group Study" below title. Includes extensive bibliographies pp. 63-92. Ms. Green was the spouse of Paul Green whose writings are listed and characterized at pages 33-37. UNC Press paperback books
1824ref. 26137New York. 1824. A Large-Scale Map of New York Styled "second edition." Handsome large-scale early map of New York State and part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Canada. Boundaries outlined in color with notes on roads forts ironworks and Indian villages. Lay was one of the most important cartographers working in New York and Pennsylvania at the time. Folding map 51 x 51 inches backed on linen as issued. Significant foxing. Original portfolio of boards with roan spine expertly rebacked. In a cloth clamshell box leather label. hardcover books
1973ref. 162618N.p.: Cannon Group 1973. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 British film originally released in the UK under the title "Au Pair Girls." Both photographs with a provenance stamp on the verso one also with a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Several young women from continental Europe and Asia arrive in England to begin jobs as au pairs and spend more time bedding their hosts than doing their jobs. Veteran British director Val Guest's first foray in the sex comedy genre. Shot on location in London and Berkshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cannon Group unknown books
1972ref. 161135N.p.: N.p. 1972. Three vintage color reference photographs from the 1972 film. One with annotations in manuscript ink noting the film's alternate title "Man from the Deep River" on the verso. A British photographer is captured by a cannibal tribe but is spared thanks to the affections of the chief's daughter. Hot on the heels of mondo filmmaking and today considered by many to be the film responsible for the cannibal boom in Italian exploitation cinema during the late 1970s and early 1980s. 10 x 8 inches. Multiple pinholes at the corners else Very Good. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 05654THORNBLOSSOMS Rinehart 1948 first edition vg in wraps. A novel of romance in Georgia. Bound long galleys. Rare thus. Rinehart paperback books
1996ref. 06925ANAIS NIN: A BOOK OF MIRRORS Sky Blue Press 1996 first edition as new in black faux leather binding with gold-gilt stamping without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/50 copies of this the deluxe edition numbered and SIGNED by the editor with one printed leaf taken from Nin's unpublished diary and an unpublished photo of Nin in numbered envelope laid in. The first book from the press being an array of original reflections personal testimonials and essays mostly written expressly for this book from many who have known her: Ginsberg Raphael Lay Green Porter Jong and over 60 others. Out of print. An apparent must book for the Nin collector. Sky Blue Press hardcover books
1992ref. 259499New York: Morrow 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected. Near fine in wrappers a paperback. Uncorrected proof. Morrow unknown books
1994ref. 334775Hong Kong: Han Mo Xuan 1994. paperback. near fine. Zhang Daqian. Text primarily in Chinese essays in English by Wu Hao Shan Goulin Xu Jianrong and others. Many full-page color plates. Tall thin 8vo stiff pictorial wrappers. Hong Kong: Han Mo Xuan 1994. A near fine copy. Han Mo Series A1: Paintings of Famous Modern Chinese Artists. Han Mo Xuan unknown books
