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1898réf. 230687Roc Society 1898. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 223 pages of color plates. 4to blue cloth d.w.N.p. Institute of Fine Arts 1989. First Edition. Scarce. Fine. Text in Chinese and English Roc Society unknown books
1948réf. 226771Shanghai: Kaiming shudian 開明書店 1948. Paperback. V 105p. paperback toned at edges very good. Kaiming shudian 開明書店 paperback books
1943réf. 33120San Francisco: The Book Club of California / Random House 1943. Very Good. San Francisco: The Book Club of California / Random House 1943. Limited Edition of 550 copies. Staple bound self-wrappers 24 cm; unpaginated. Black and red printing throughout with a black illustration at sixth page. Extremities bumped and rubbed with toning at spine margin light soiling and minor bumped tear to top front margin. Previous owner name in pen to verso of front cover otherwise pages clean. Prospectus laid in at front. A Very Good or better copy. This is the second in a series of six pamphlets issued to the members of The Book Club of California each focusing on literature from a different Pacific area country who had allied with the United States during World War II. Limited pamphlet release of text first appearing in "The Wisdom of India and China" from 1942. The Book Club of California / Random House unknown books
1988réf. 163188New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG a clean tight crisp copy. Owner's name label on ffep art conservator; small price stickers on front flap. DJ not price-clipped. Some yellowing on DJ. Black cloth gilt letters on spine. White dj with bw illustration and black lettering. Mylar cover. 310 pp. 281 BW illus. Explores this work of French and Baroque painter and engraver Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. With extensive narrative introduction. The illustrated catalogue raisonne addresses 281 pieces. An appendix of watermarks and a bibliography are included. Yale University Press hardcover books
1948réf. 21366New York: Heritage Press. The George Macy Companies Inc 1948. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pasted down onto boards. Fine. Miguel Covarrubias. 4to. 28.5 by 21 cm. xxix 1 688 pp. 31 color plates including frontis and these are outside pagination. Smaller line drawings interspersed throughout text. Light wear and trivial soiling of cover. Interior-wise clean tight. A lovely copy. Without slipcase. Heritage Press. The George Macy Companies, Inc hardcover books
1972réf. 26922New York: Ballantine Books. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. nice clean copy with minimal wear spine slightly turned. Adult Fantasy Series Mass Market PB The third and seemingly most uncommon of the four paperback collections of Smith's stories edited for Ballantine by Lin Carter who describes them in his Introduction as "extraplanetary weird fantasies." Most were originally published in various pulp magazines in the early 1930s and constituted in Carter's words "something quite new and different and exciting something all his own." He lauds the tales for a prose style he calls "rich bejeweled exotic kind of writing of the sort we most often think of as being natural to the heroic fantasy tale of magic kingdoms and fabulous eras of the mysterious past." . Ballantine Books paperback books
2000réf. 1360786China: Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House 2001/2000. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Small square octavo; 151 pages volume 1 "liberated areas" 245 pages volume 2 "Kuomintang areas"; VG; spines red with black text; one inch-long scratch on the front cover and some scuffing on the rear cover of volume 1 mild shelfwear to both volumes; textblocks clean with very mild foxing to volume 2; shelved in Chinese Art. The collection title author and individual titles in Chinese are ä¸å¤–黑白木刻精å“库 è‹æž— 解放区黑白木刻 and 国统区黑白木刻. The two seem to be members of a larger set. 1360786. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House unknown books
2017réf. 1378396London: Routledge 2017. Hardcover. Octavo xii 189 pages. In Good condition. Ex-library with usual markings including library stamps to edges and title page penciled call number on title page verso label on rear pastedown barcode label on rear board. Spine is red with white print. Boards in illustrated paper. Light wear to corners. Illustrated: b&w graphs charts. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column G ND-G. 1378396. FP New Rockville Stock. Routledge hardcover books
1975réf. 325756Roslyn New York: Fantasy Games Unlimited Inc 1975. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers. 56 pages. Fantasy Games Unlimited, Inc unknown books
2013réf. 140940797New York: Vintage Books 2013. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. Uncorrected proof issued before the first edition. Signed by Tao Lin on the front free endpaper inscribed to former owner with a small bug drawing dated 1/20/13. viii 258 1 pp. Wraps. Very Good with a few faint stains to wraps light shelf wear. The author's third novel the inspiration of the 2018 film High Resolution. Vintage Books unknown books
2007réf. 65798Taipei: National Taiwan University Institute of Linguistics 2007. First edition large 8vo pp. 2 iv 326 2; text largely in English with 6 chapters in Chinese; orange printed paper wrappers addenda sheet laid in; fine. A collection of papers on Taiwanese linguistics with chapters such as "Graphic localism and its effects on visual communication with special reference to characters of the Chinese system of writing" "The assimilation of Japanese loanwords in Taiwanese Hokkien" "Literary Disyllabism vs. Colloquial Trisyllabification in Taiwanese" etc. National Taiwan University Institute of Linguistics unknown books
1944réf. 191494Zurich: Verlag Amstutz Herdeg & Co 1944. Hardcover. Good soiling and shelfwear to portfolio smudging to title half page plates are fairly clean and clear with light wear to page edges 6 plates present missing 2. Oversized portfolio light tan cloth boards with red lettering title half page in Chinese title page followed by text pages 5-12 6 unnumbered leaves of plates in color. Text is in German. "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 12th to 18th Century. Introduced by Lin Tsiu-sen with eight facsimile reproductions in 13-color photochrom."-translated from title page. 20x13x.5" Verlag Amstutz, Herdeg & Co hardcover books
1947réf. 140943342St. Petersburg FL/Dearborn MI: Published by the Editors 1947. Very Good. Walter Coslet's copy with his address and signed of mailing to rear cover including a vertical fold to contents. Handcolored front wrap. Very Good with toning and wear light chipping at edges. Published by the Editors unknown books
1982réf. 389143New York: Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a few tiny tears. Inscribed by the author to the important rocket scientist and influential science-fiction fan John Drury Clark. In addition to writing an important book on rocket propulsion as well as a couple of stories in "Astounding Stories" Clark was also instrumental in revitalizing and promoting the career of Robert E. Howard. He was college roommates with L. Sprague de Camp who he encouraged to write science fiction stories introduced de Camp to his sometime co-writer Fletcher Pratt and eventually married Pratt's widow Inga. His previous marriage prompted Pratt to form a club of science fiction writers and scientists called The Trap Door Spiders so that they wouldn't have to socialize with Clark's first wife. Isaac Asimov later fictionalized the club as a group of mystery solvers The Black Widowers. Doubleday hardcover books
2006réf. 189790Seattle WA & New Haven CT: Henry Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press 2006. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 112 pages. Features a foreword by Lawrence Weschler along with essays by Richard Andrews and John Beardsley. Includes numerous color images list of selected works list of previous exhibitions and a bibliography. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear Signed by Maya Lin on the title page and uncommon as such. Henry Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press unknown books
2026réf. 863152026. Clark NJ: Talbot Publishing 2026. Clark NJ: Talbot Publishing 2026. Palmer Michael Editor. Zhou Ling Editor. Lin Yang Editor. Administrative Justice in China: Institutional Conflicts and Governance Transformation. Clark New Jersey: Talbot Publishing 2026. xiv 599 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616197032. ISBN-10: 161619703X. Hardcover. New. $185. A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law Second Series. This pathbreaking essay collection examines how procedural innovation works within a party-state system shaped by institutional capacity governance priorities and political authority. Through empirical studies and case analysis the volume explores issues including family planning divorce environmental governance judicial decision-making public interest litigation and bureaucratic inertia. Together the essays show the tensions among private entitlements institutional autonomy collective discipline and state control offering a nuanced account of accountability efficiency and the changing role of courts in the People's Republic of China. Michael Palmer is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of London Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and CUHK's Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Honorary Cheng Yu Tung Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar of Chinese law comparative law and legal anthropology he has advised governments and international organizations on legal reform and policy. Dr. Ling Zhou is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Shenzhen Technology University. She holds a DPhil in Law from Oxford and an LLM with Distinction from SOAS. Her current research covers civil justice dispute resolution administrative governance and digital trade regulation. She is the author of Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer. Dr. Yang Lin is a Research Officer at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law. He holds degrees from Shantou University SOAS and HKU. His research focuses on Chinese and comparative law e-commerce consumer protection dispute resolution internet governance digital regulation administrative justice and policy development. unknown books
1935réf. 69083Shanghai: Commercial Press 1935. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 1 230 2; tables and graphs throughout 7 folding; a very good sound and clean copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine and preserving the original printed dust jacket which is worn with tears and the jacket spine partially perished. Issued as Monograph No. 1 in the publisher's Foreign Trade Association of China series. Commercial Press unknown books
2008réf. 61036Bungendore Australia: Odana Editions 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good . SIGNED. 335pp. Quarto 30.5 cm Shiny pictorial paper over boards. The front board is just a little bit dinged along the bottom edge. May require extra postage due to weight. With 367 pencil drawings dating from 1889 to 1969. A collection which traces Lindsay's artistic development through his pencil drawings the only medium in which it is possible to do this. The artist's love affair with the pencil lasted from early childhood until a year or so prior to his death. Signed by Lin Bloomfield on the title page. Odana Editions hardcover books
1948réf. 140943409Lake Arthur LA: Olympic Press 1948. Very Good. Two issues: Volume 1 Number 1. September 1948 and Volume 1 Number 2. December 1948. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. An early science fiction fanzine with contributions from Joe Kennedy and Lin Carter. A rare set. Olympic Press unknown books
1948réf. 140943410Lake Arthur LA: Olympic Press 1948. Very Good. Two issues: Volume 1 Number 1. September 1948 and Volume 1 Number 2. December 1948. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. A science fiction fanzine with contributions from Joe XJ Kennedy and Lin Carter. Olympic Press unknown books
1951réf. 64985Taipei: Taiwan Provincial Documentation Committee 1951. First edition; stab stitched set 2 vols. in 24 juan 9.5" x 5.5"; text in Traditional Chinese; 18 maps in text most full-page; original printed paper wrappers; light soiling to wrappers text clean and sound near fine. Number 2 in the Taiwan series published by the Committee. Hangchun County is a historical county around what is now the Southern Taiwanese county of Pingtung. The Chronicle was originally compiled in 1894 by Chen Wenwei the magistrate of that country but its publication was interrupted with the Japanese occupation of Taiwan and was not published until 1951 when it was rediscovered in a cache of documents held by the Academia Sinica. It consists of information taken from a year's worth of interviews including information on history geography aboriginal languages customs etc. Taiwan Provincial Documentation Committee unknown books
1944réf. 191493Zurich: Verlag Amstutz Herdeg & Co 1944. Hardcover. Good light soiling and shelfwear to portfolio smudging to title half page creasing to title half page plates are fairly clean and clear with light wear to page edges all 8 plates present closures are broken and missing. Oversized portfolio brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; title half page in Chinese title page followed by text pages 5-12 8 unnumbered leaves of plates in color. Text is in German. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 12th to 18th Century. Introduced by Lin Tsiu-sen with eight facsimile reproductions in 13-color photochrom. 20x13x.5" Verlag Amstutz, Herdeg & Co hardcover books
1965réf. 159142N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage color contact sheet from the 1965 film showing actress Irina Demick. Nine images in total. Based on the 1962 novel by Alphonse Boudard about a man who sets out for revenge on three petty criminals who let him take the fall for a robbery. Shot on location in Paris and Hauts-de-Seine France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1942réf. 2348963West Palm Beach: The Norton Gallery and School of Art 1942. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition #759 of 1000 copies with stamped number and printed author's signature on copyright page. Former library copy rebound in buckram with a few internal marks presentation bookplate from the author on front endpaper. 1942 Large Hardcover. xvi 536 pp. Color frontispiece 118 full page halftone plates reproduced from original photographs 123 line engravings. Prepared as a handbook for visitors to the Jade room of the Norton Gallery and School of Art for whom Nott was the director of Oriental Art. The Norton Gallery and School of Art hardcover books
1969réf. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown books
