Search Results: Titles starting with F from Asia Bookroom

西安. Xi'an.: 陕西人民美术出版社. Shaanxi People's Fine Arts Publishing House.. 1989.. Notes, 120pp, 61 coloured photographic illustrations, edges to leaves sunned, paperback in glassine, glassine rubbed, good copy. This photographic album was published with the aim of helping readers acquire a better understanding of the relics unearthed from the Famen Temple crypt. It is written in simplified Chinese with English translation for the notes and introduction. .

Santa Barbara.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.. First Edition.. 1991.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 56pp, bibliography, glossary, a very good paperback copy. 25.5 x 22.9cm. A collection of West Sumatran ceremonial weavings. .

Singapore.: Raffles International Ltd.. 2002.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 60pp, a good copy in slightly faded paperback, square quarto. Articles include photography of Martine Franck, nineteenth century photographs of Burma, hidden treasures of Cambodia, Bollywood, the journey of a Japanese monk to Tibet, and cosmopolitan Shanghai circa 1930. .

London.: Atlantic Press.. 1956.. Map, figures, xi + 243pp, bibliography, appendix, index, worn and priceclipped dustjacket protected, small bookseller label front free endpaper, good copy. A cultural study of a Chinese community near Nanking. The author lived in the Ch'uhsien community for nearly a year and a half. .

Melbourne.: University of Melbourne Library.. 2000.. Black and white photographic illustrations, unpaginated, stapled pictorial wrappers. 30 x 21cm. Some pencil marks, otherwise a good copy. .

Vancouver.: University of British Columbia.. 1985.. Map, xii + 319pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, minor damage lower cover dustjacket, otherwise very good copy. An anthropological and linguistical study of eighty traditional tales from a Papua New Guinea Highland culture. .

London.: Harrap.. 1945.. Colour graphs, tables and maps, black and white photographic illustrations by Cecil Beaton, 144pp, index, foxed endpapers and extremities, spine faded, covers very worn, faded with a few marks, good hardback copy. The aim of this book is to compare and contrast China and the West. It is particularly notable for the excellence of Cecil Beatons' photographs of Chinese life. .

Bathurst.: Robert and Brown Associates.. First Edition.. 1986. Colour photographic illustrations, 208pp, index, glossary, dustjacket shelf worn and spine sunned, prior owner's label pastedown, contents very good, overall a good secondhand copy. 29.3 x 22cm. .

London.: Michael Joseph London 1974. 1974.. Illustrated with colour photographs by Fok Lai-Ping (Pat Fok) throughout, 188pp, few marks on endpapers, dustjacket faded along the spine, neatly mended and foxed on reverse, otherwise very good. 28 x 21cm. .

Sydney.: Collins.. 1979.. 312pp, very good in trifle worn dustjacket with sunned spine. Maslyn Williams looks at three distinctive faces of Asia - Philippines, Japan & Korea. .

Dubai.: Motivate Publishing.. [Reprint].. 2005.. Profuse black and white and coloured photographic illustrations, 176pp, photographic notes, a hardback copy in good to very good condition. 24.5 x 32cm. "Faces of the Emirates showcases the people of the Emirates in the mid-20th century, as seen through Codrai's lens. Rulers, shaikhs, Bedu, mariners, pearl divers, merchants, fisherman, hill men and some of their families - all these and more are featured." - Publisher's Description. .

New Haven.: Yale University Press.. 1979.. 301pp, index, boards slightly worn and faded, edges little foxed, a sound secondhand copy. .

New York.: Maecenas Press and Random House.. 1970.. Part I: Text by James A. Michener, illustrated with original woodcuts by Jack Levine; printed on Arches paper, the original 'hors-texte'(un-numbered) coloured woodcut, is printed on Japanese vellum, with 4 original lithographs signed in the plate by the artist. It is printed on Rives paper, loose as issued, in an off-white watered silk portfolio with black leather fastener. Part II: The Sketchbook; with 54 watercolours, gouaches and drawings printed in phototype and pochoir processes on Ingres paper, from 2 - 40 colours were hand-brushed on each. Contained in a full black leather portfolio. The clam-shell box is showing signs of wear, the cloth is wearing at the head and tail of spine and some water marks are visible, also the leather fastener is chipped and a little creased, however, internally this is a fine copy. An elephant folio - approximately 51 x 23.5cm. Number 2098 of the Deluxe Limited Edition Portfolio of 2500 copies, this copy is hand… Read More

Chiang Mai.: Silkworm Books.. 1996.. vi + 331pp, index, wrappers a little worn, a good paperback copy. "These 19 essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodia's past. They include studies of the leper-king myth at Angkor, post Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (1975-79). The collection closes with two essays, written sixteen years apart, that deal with what the author calls the tragedy of Cambodian history. David Chandler is a Professor of History and research director at the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University. His previous books include A History of Cambodia, The Tragedy of Cambodian History and Brother Number One: a political biography of Pol Pot." (Publisher's description). .

Australia.: Allen & Unwin.. 1996.. vi + 331pp, index. Spine and part of cover a little faded, but a tight clean paperback copy, 21 x 14.5cm. "These 19 essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodia's past. They include studies of the leper-king myth at Angkor, post Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (1975-79). The collection closes with two essays, written sixteen years apart, that deal with what the author calls the tragedy of Cambodian history. David Chandler is a Professor of History and research director at the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University. His previous books include A History of Cambodia, The Tragedy of Cambodian History and Brother Number One: a political biography of Pol Pot." (Publisher's description). .

London.: Chatto & Windus.. 1968.. 215pp. Upper edge little foxed, dustjacket slightly worn, a very good hardback copy. .

北京.[Beijing].: 地图出版社.[Di tu chu ban she].. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.. 1968.. Two Chinese Cultural Revolution maps printed on both sides of a single sheet, folded, scale 1: 4,500,000, inset maps (Corsica and France), legend showing railway lines, national and provincial territorial boundaries (Map of France). Mao's quotations accompanied by a head portrait upper section both sides. Some light scattered foxing a little heavier at folds, folds lightly worn with two small tape repairs at margins, otherwise good. The May Uprising in France 1968 was a students/workers movement which led to massive strikes across the nation and paralysed the government. The Communist Party of China were quick to draw a parallel between the French protests and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, using the protests to promote the idea that capitalism, imperialism and colonialism would soon be defeated across the world. The quotation by Mao printed above the detailed Map of… Read More

Stanford.: Stanford University Press.. Reprint.. 2006. Black and white illustrations, xii + 327pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. .

New Delhi.: Chetana.. 1974.. xi + 164pp, index, dustjacket worn extremities, now protected, stamp title page, otherwise good. .

Yogyakarta.: University Gadjah Mada.. 1992.. xii + 142pp, typescript, hardback copy with lower edges bumped, otherwise good. 22 x 29.5cm. Text in Indonesian. A thesis on factors that influence the quality of FP participant statistics (case study in Barru District). .