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196268 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for the Sikorsky S-61 twin-turbine helicopter; So You're Going to Okinawa; One-page illustrated ad for the FMC 'winged' amphibious landing craft LVHX2; Small Unit Operations - Counterguerrilla War - Part 4 of a series; Major Military Decisions of the 20th Century; How to Win at Combat Training; Pacific Strategy - Part 2 - Looking Ahead, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral USNR (Ret.); MABS or MOBS - Suggestions to prevent Marine Air Bases from running in circles; Recall and You - advice for Marines (and their wives) on what to do before you're called to go to war; Artillery vs. Guerrillas; Republic of China (Taiwan) Marines; Promotions and Transfers; Phantom II F4H-1 fighter color ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
192488 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Amazing Adventure of Los Angeles policeman Sergeant Arthur W. Bethel - major photo-illustrated article; The Seer of Kantara; Unknown Peru - part 1 - photo-illustrated article on travel and adventure in the Andes; Our Election - election corruption in an American city; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 2 - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges travels the world to capture the world's largest fish - photo-illustrated article; The Panther's revenge - a child-eating panther terrorizes an Indian village; An Up-Country Holiday in China - nice photo-illustrated article; Outlaws at Bay - a regiment captures a gang of native desperadoes in North-West India - article with photos; The Charm That Came Back - a special coin returns to B.J. Munchweiler; The Ku-Ula - an ancient Hawaiian superstition; Mark Cambell's Last "Stunt" - after a big scare he stopped performing daredevil stunts in the air for film 'thrillers'; Taming the Silver Fox - visit to a fur farm in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada - great photo-illustrated article; The Talking Crow - a story from the Virginia Mountains; Unusual Revenge - a 1910 story involving a North-West Mounted Policeman; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Watts Trading Co. of New York City features seven handguns and two pairs of binoculars - all with prices and descriptions; Lovely one-page ad for Whiteland radios. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
197980 pages. Features: Carter and Begin meet for one last try to save peace talks; Jerry Brown's Budget Balancing Act; Jane Byrne knocks out Mayor of Chicago; American foreign policy in the middle east; Khomeini's Kingdom Qum; China's Putative War Against Vietnam; China's War with India; Saudi fears of subversion from Yemen; Queen receives valuable gifts from Dubai; Idi Amin's Big Trouble; The Oil Squeeze of 1979; Oil Authority Walter Levy; China Faces Reality - still much promise, but also worry about money and lower goals; Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal meets Hua Kuo-feng; Henry Bloch of H&R Block Co.; Concerns over fallout from nuclear testing; Chaos in Television as the networks claw for audiences; Manic of Mork - Robin Williams - article with color photo; Features with the heads of ABC, CBS and NBC, Fred Pierce, William Paley, Fred Silverman; John McPhee writes of his favorite restaurant, "The Bullhead" in Shohala, PA; Color-photo ad for the Peugeot 604 SL; Voyager 1's rendezvous with Jupiter; Passing of Dewey Bartlett, Mustafa Barzani, W.A.C. Bennett, Henrich Focke; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
197568 pages. Features: Canadian budget battle over defense expenses; Robert Fulford and his 'Saturday Night' magazine; Photo of Janis Joplin performing; The Canadian Canvas - A Broad Sweep (of Canadian art); President Ford's risky plan against slumpflation; CIA director William Colby defends himself; Clouds over Playboy's Bunnyland - suicide of Bobbie Arnstein - article with photo of pall-bearer Hugh Hefner; In Defense of Politicians - Do We Ask Too Much?; Eight-page colour-photo illustrated centerfold ad feature by Macmillan Bloedel explains how forests grow; Barefoot Rudolf Nureyev; Moscow's repudiation of trade agreements a serious blow to detente; Saga of the (Henry) Jackson Amendment; Triumph for the moderates in China; Bloody peace in Indochina; The P.L.O. Strategy - Fight and Talk; Truce fails in Northern Ireland; Fragile independence in Angola; Trouble in Cyprus; Ujamaa's bitter harvest in Tanzania; Passing of Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, Gustavo Rohas Pinilla, Li Fu-chun and Alberta oil baron Eric Lafferty Harvie; Goalie Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon and the success of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings - photo-illustrated article; Basketball star Jimmy Wilkins; Jailed Baptist Georgi Vins; Troubled Trident submarine program - article with photo of construction at Bremerton, WA; Scandal in Education - Barbara and Harry Lowther; Artist Robert Rauschenberg; The General Dynamics YF-16 fighter wins a dogfight; Color photo ad for Panasonic TV features gent with monocle; Retailer W.T. Grant Co. cuts back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1962385 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Glossary. Thirty-eight tables. "Twenty-seven detailed case histories provide vivid examples of upward, downward, and arrested mobility." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
1974908 pages. Approximately 10" x 7". "Treats some 694 particles, the nuclei, as it were, of the grammar of Classical Chinese... Copious examples of usage and currency are given and cross-references to concordances and other reference works are supplied, the whole designed to provide for the student of the Chinese language a reference work of a kind that hitherto has not existed." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A worthy copy of this impressive tome. Book
2012160 pages. Suggested Reading List. Printed upon glossy stock. Gloriously illustrated with colour photography. "Illustrates court garments reflecting the pomp and ceremony of Manchu court life and the Chinese aristocracy of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) from the Chinese textile collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A gift quality copy of this sumptuously presented work. Book
1957290 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. First printed in the US by Harper & Brothers in 1956. "Author was born in 1901 and in 1921 was appointed to the American Legation in Peiping - although his actual diplomatic career began in 1923 when he was named Vice-Consul at Mukden. For the next eighteen years he held various posts in many parts of China, until December 1941 - while he was American Counsul at Shanghai - when the Japanese captured the city and he was interned for several months. Named Consul General at Vancouver in 1945, he left the next year to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, later American Ambassador to Thailand, a post he held until his retirement in 1953.... He saw China and Manchuria in chaos under the warlords. He witnessed the growth of Chinese nationalism, and China's suffering as first the Japanese and then the Communists struggled for ascendency." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Tanning to endpapers. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. An important account of these pivotal years in China, as witnessed by an American diplomat. Book
1918Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1915Pages 289-382, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: When the Water Came Down - the author and his Gurkha orderly are fishing in the Himalayas when a sudden 'spate' rages down through the mountains; "Washing-Day" All Over the World - article with many fantastic photos of (mainly) woman washing their clothes in outdoor waters in many countries around the world; In Search of Adventure - Part 1 - the story of a chequered cruise to the South Sea Islands by "The Firm", "Freckles", and "The Spinster"; A Woman Alone in China - Part 3 - photo-illustrated travels of Mary Gaunt and her Peking cart travels in China - with photos; Adrift on a Raft - the crew of the sinking Liverpool barque "Cordillera" built a raft to survive; The Native Festivals of Java - article with many great photos; The Story of My Chinese God - how a collector finally got his God curio in China; The Forest Hermit - a Moose- Hunting Story - they camped on the shore of Lady Evelyn Lake in Canada - article with interesting photos; The Man Who Understood Natives - a story of the rinderpest epidemic in Pondoland in 1897; The "Wide World" (this publication) being read in unusual places; Amazing photo of men handling the minute hand of "Big Ben", the largest clock in the world; Emblem Motorcycle ad; Nice Red Cross Line ad inside back cover; Back cover features interesting B.V.D. men's underwear ad with illustration of scene in what appears to be the New York Yankee's dressing room. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1967138 pages followed by 65 black and white photographic plates. Index. Bibliography. From first printing of 1,000 copies. "There can be few more remarkable relationships than the thriving success of the giant fig-trees and the multitude of very small insects which sustain them... (the author's) discoveries reveal the incredible ability of natural evolution." - from dust jacket. Bookplate of prominent botanist Roy L. Taylor inside front board. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Light to moderate wear to pale green cloth-covered boards. Above-average wear and sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important reference. Book
198364 pages. Features: Nippon China - more divine trash!; Ruth Trembley of Trembley's Antiques handles Grannie's Old Nightie; Sculptor William Zorach; On the Importance of Buttons; Golden Age of the French Poster; Street Vendors' Merchandise - Jumping Jacks and Penny Wooden Dolls; Collecting Sewing Accessories; Love Spoons; Early Kitchen Artifacts; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
198456 pages. Features: Lockets; Report on ROM Lecture "East Meets West in China" - Mildred Motthedeh; Exclusive Interview with Mildred Mottahedeh; Nippon Figurals and Figurines; 1983 in review; The Beaver Hat - an item of fashion lures explorers to the west; Mapping Toronto's First Century 1787-1884; Collectible Valentines; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
198727.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Hong Kong. Colour illustration by Chinese artist (whose name appears in Chinese characters in lower right corner) depicts charming harbour scene with small traditional human-powered craft in foreground and larger Chinese junks (ships) in background. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Average wear. Several short openings to periphery, the longest being 1.75" to lower right corner of illustration. Two pinholes to each corner. A lovely memento of this Canadian airline and its popular Hong Kong service. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Similar posters for other Canadian Airlines destinations available. Poster
196530 pages. 7.25" x 5.6". Text in English. Each page charmingly illustrated in colour. Ten-year-old Ah-wu, his dog Blackie, and friend Ah-hsiao live on Hainan Island which has been occupied by the Japanese Army in 1939. Tells the dramatic tale of how the trio captures a Japanese soldier, then delivers him and his rifle to the guerrillas. Unmarked with light wear and soiling. A quality copy of this charming vintage work. Book
1979538 pages. Fifteen maps. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. "With very few exceptions, the only written sources for the past four hundred years have come not from the islanders themselves, but from the pens of the ship captains, traders, missionaries, administrators and roustabouts who visited the islands from afar. The history of Micronesia, then, is one that is written by foreigners." - from Preface. A sampling of the eighteen chapter titles includes: Conquest and Colonization; On the Road to China; A Nest of Rogues and Runaways; Copra Becomes King; The White Man's Law; The South Seas Mandate; Ruin and Reconstruction; and more. Light wear. Binding tight. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Minimal foxing to edges and front free endpaper. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this valuable reference. Book
200082 pages. Features: Embodying Cosmic Patterns - Foundations of an Art of Calligraphy in China; Silencing the Cry of Cold Insects - Meaning and Design in the Exile Calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Su Shi; The Early Aesthetic Values of Writing and Calligraphy; Tradition and Authorial Identity in Chinese Calligraphy - Three Works from the Elliott Collection; Private Lives - Public Faces - Relics of Calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu, Guan Daosheng and Their Children; Severed Heads - Demarcating Conceptual Space in Mughal Painting; The Symbolism of Flowers and Birds in Chinese Painting; An Repositioning of a Medieval Painting Monument - the Ten Kings at the Seikado Library; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Book
200358 pages. Features: The Hejia Village Hoard - a snapshot of China's silk road trade; The Burial location and dating of the Hejia Village treasures; Three Textiles from Turfan; The Illustrative Sequence on An Jia's Screen - a depiction of the Daily Life of a Sabao; 'Divine Presence' at Casa Asia in Barcelona; 'Ming - The Golden Age of Chinese Furniture' at the Musee Guimet; Blanc de Chine at the China Institute Gallery; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Magazine
198864 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated with photos in colour and black and white. "Explores the diversity of media and art forms from Neolithic time to the Han Dynasty (201 B.C. - A.D. 220)." - from Foreword. Prior owner's ink stamp upon title page, otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1915Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1919Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa (part I) - adventures from the flying log-book of an R.A.F. officer during ther campaign in German East Africa; My Adventures in Bolivia - Frank Rose was arrested as a dangerous revolutionary but managed to escape; Relief Worker's Adventures (part I) - thrilling adventures among the war victims of Armenia, Syria, and Persia, with photos; Hunting Big Game by Motor-Car - Captain F.A.M. Webster describes how he does it, with photos; The Adventures of a Newspaper-man (part III) - Frederic Martyn's adventures - with photos; Pukalofa's Tragic Revenge - Captain Samuel Randall recounts the brutal behavior of a whaling captain towards his crew in 1868, and what followed; In the Wilds of Siberia (Part I) - great photo-illustrated article by Harry Somerset-Lister describes his adventures; The Theft of the Zuni God - in New Mexico three U.S. Cavalry troopers stole the idols of the Indians, thus incurring their wrath; "The Surf Deer" - Reminiscences of the Dover Destroyer Patrol by Captain E.R.G.R. Evans, the Commander of the destroyer Viking; Shooting Elephants in the Middle of a Battle - what happened during the German East African Campaign; Hunting an Elephant During War - another thrilling incident of an elephant hunt during stern fighting in German East Africa, related by a Rhodesian soldier; Our Life at Holzminden - Lieut. J. Whale describes his life in this German POW camp in Brunswick, and provides his own illustrations; The Making of a Mandarin - photo-illustrated explanation of the curious and picturesque examinations which are held every three years in China and Indo-China for the coveted diploma of Chu-Jen, which entitles the holder to call himself a full-fledged Mandarin; Smugglers' Strategy Unveiled - photo-illustrated article explaining the many ingenious methods used by German and Swiss smugglers to get food and other things into enemy territory; The Tragedy of the Sling-Chain - Miner Bill Burton is killed in Australia; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
193932 pages. Contents: Wang Ching-Wei - Real Story - Wang's proposal, Dec 29, Mr. Wang's Letter, Dec. 28, Prince Konoye's Statment, Dec 22; Canton - What is the Truth; China War Takes on New Phase; Far East New Budget - China, Japan, Manchuokuo, International, etc. Soiled, well-worn and fragile copy. Former owner's name neatly atop front cover. Magazine
2004Signed by author upon title page. 224 pages. Recounts the fourteen years spent by the author as a refugee in Shanghai after she and her German Jewish family fled Europe in 1939. In later years she became a popular book dealer in Canada. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
194768 pages. Features: George Washington - A Water-color Drawing (cover); Carved Wooden Figure of Washington - Frontispiece; John Holden Greene - Architect; The Attitude of the Eagle - as portrayed on an outstanding group of "Liberty" Quilts; Lowestoft China; Cabinets and Chests - from the Middle Atlantic States; Pounce Boxes and Sand Shakers; Living with Antiques - Bohemian Version; Bohemian Glass - a study for inexperienced collectors; I Don't Like Antique Collectors; John G. Chandler; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear. Moisture exposure. Writing on front cover and ad on page 49. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Magazine
2008178 pages. Features: Tony Iommi; Jimmy Page in China; Alice Cooper - billion-dollar days revisited ; the art of Kurt Cobain; Lindsay Buckingham; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
