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BAKUNIN, SUGI AND THE YOKOHAMA-PARIS CONNECTION: Libero International - No. 5 - Sept. 1978
(Kobe, Japan): (CIRA-Nippon), 1978. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light toning and small dot of soil to front cover. Interior clean and bright throughout. 50pp. Issue of this Japanese anarchist (self-described "libertarian") journal, discussing the connections between the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the Japanese.....
RAISING CANE: The Political Economy of Sugar in Western India
Boulder: Westview Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Touches of shelfwear and soil to jacket. Faint damp stain along lower edge. Cloth fresh. Interior bright and clean. Very good. 366pp. An academic study of the sugar industry in Western India.
JAPANESE GIRLS AND WOMEN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1919). Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth. Very good. Cloth a bit faded. Mild rubbing, shelfwear. Clean and sound overall. The revised and expanded edition. 478pp. with index.
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN ASIA
New Delhi: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, (2002). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Very good. Externally clean and unmarred. One leaf (p. 17-18) detached but present. Else clean and sound throughout. 309pp. W.H.O. guide to traditional Asian medicine.
Farm Consolidation in Taiwan
np [Taiwan]: np, 1967. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. DJ rubbed with a few chips. Book has touches shelfwear at edges. Else clean and sound throughout. Near fine in very good DJ. By the former Governor of the Taiwan Provincial Government. 216pp. Uncommon.
CEREMONIES DES DOUZE MOIS: Fetes Annuelles Cambodgiennes
[Phnom-Penh]: Commission des Moeurs et Coutumes du Cambodge, [circa 1951]. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound tan wraps, brown cloth tape to spine. Light shelfwear and scuffing; mild toning and foxing. Creasing to back cover. Pages toned. Very good. Leaflet laid in. In French. By Commission members Eveline Poree-Maspero, L'Achar Chap-Pin, Mmes. Pich-Sal.....
TAM TAM SUR LE MEKONG: Avec les guerillas Laotiennes
Saigon: C. Ardin, 1948. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Illustrated tan wraps. Covers toned, with small tears to edges and spine ends; spine sunned and cocked. Partial separation of spine from adhesive; sewn text block is otherwise intact. Light foxing scattered throughout. With fold-out map. Good plus. Memoir of the "drame.....
HAILIBU THE HUNTER
Beijing: Dolphin Books, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. Very good. Light edgwear and toning to jacket and boards. Pages lightly toned throughout, else clean. 38pp. Handsomely illustrated Chinese children's tale.
MY LANTERN
Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1939. Wraps. 8vo. Good in original silk wrappers. Japanese string-tied binding. Lacking slipcase. Some toning to edges. Binding strings loosening, but intact. Tape repair to cover label. Very good minus overall. 230pp.
A RADICAL GROUP IN HONG KONG
(Berkeley): (Bureau of Public Secrets), (1978). Folio. Single sheet, 8.5" by 14", printed recto/verso. Very good plus to near fine. Light touches of handling wear; tiny dampstain to one edge. Overall, bright and clean. Short tribute to a Chinese left-libertarian group called "the 70s," who published the English-language magazine MINUS.....
FLOWER SHADOWS BEHIND THE CURTAIN
New York: Pantheon, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket worn at edges and suffers several closed tears, one approx. 2" at front panel near spine. Cloth slightly foxed and soiled. Interior clean and bright. About very good. Classic Chinese novel dating from the.....
A CHINESE MIRROR: Poems and Plays
Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter printed cloth over boards. Very good. Some foxing, toning to boards. Endpapers lightly foxed, with trivial touches throughout text block, but mostly clean throughout. 68pp. Scarce book by the Chinese author, in a lovely edition. With an introduction by Manly Hall.....
KOREAN SEX JOKES IN TRADITIONAL TIMES: How the Mouse Got Trapped in the Widow's Vagina, and Other Stories
Washington DC: The Warm - Soft Village Press, (1972). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Printed wraps. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Levy to copyright page. Mild handling wear. Overall, clean, sound. A collection of traditional Korean sex jokes, compiled and translated by the author. The proliferation of sex jokes in Korea during.....
The Real Conflict Between China and Japan: An Analysis of Opposing Ideologies
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1969. Reprint. Cloth. 4to. Trace shelfwear. Else bright, clean, tight and sharp. No DJ. Reprint of the 1938 ed. 216pp. with index, printed two pages side-by-side to a page.
SACRED VOWS
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1998). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Very good plus to near fine. SIGNED by both Oeur and McCullough at title page. Light curling to wraps' corners. Interior bright, clean throughout; appears largely unread. 226pp. Collection of poetry by this Cambodian author who was.....
![Photo Album of a Lutheran Missionary in Japan]. Photography, Missionaries, Japan](/pictures/thumb/19695.jpeg?v=1561472512)
[Photo Album of a Lutheran Missionary in Japan]
[ca. 1920-1931]: [Kyushu, Japan]. Oblong 4to. String-tied commecial album; black boards. Contains 57 gelatin-silver prints (of various sizes, including 8" by 10", 7.5" by 5", and smaller), most of which are adhesive-mounted (with several loose), plus 11 postcards depicting Kyushu Lutheran churches, and one bookmark. One photograph apparently perished; several.....
Jose Rizal and the Asian renaissance
Manila: Solidaridad Pub. House, 1996. Paperback. 8vo. Some reading wear externally. Else clean and sound throughout. 257pp.
SOME ASPECTS OF JAPANESE CULTURE
1980. Paperback. Small 8vo. Wraps. Near fine. In English, published in Japan. 88pp. with notes. Uncommon.
IRON & SILK
New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over papyrus-style boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Very light toning to jacket. Touch of soil to page edges. Interior clean, crisp, and bright. Sound throughout. 211pp. Handsome copy of this memoir of post-Cultural-Revolution.....
COOKING FROM THE HEART: The Hmong Kitchen in America
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (2009). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Four pieces of tape holding jacket (in protective covering) to boards. Clean, sharp, and unmarred throughout. 276pp. Hmong-American cookbook with extensive anecdotes and cultural context.
MARCOS OF THE PHILIPPINES: A Biography
New York: The World Publishing Co., (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Very good in very good minus jacket. DJ lightly edgeworn with small closed tear to rear panel and some faint sunning to spine. Couple of small creases to flaps. Small patch of damping to underside of.....
SATURDAY NIGHT IN BAODING: A China Memoir
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. A fine copy. INSCRIBED by Terrill at title page. Clean, bright, and sharp; binding tight; appears unread. 176pp. Memoir by this Minnesota-based author recounting his years living in China.
HIGH ON A HILL: A Book of Chinese Riddles
New York and Cleveland: Collins, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter tan cloth over blue boards with gilt-stamped titles. Near fine in a very good DJ. INSCRIBED by Young to the storyteller/folklorist Diane Wolkstein at FFEP, with Young's personal stamp underneath. Light touches of soil to jacket. Price clipped. Interior.....
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