CENTRAL ASIA AND TIBET Towards the Holy City of Lassa (volumes 1 & 2) by Hedin, Sven - 1903

Hurst and Blackett, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 608 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound in leather with marbled paper covered boards. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates. Volume I. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpaper. Binding is noticeable loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild fraying, tanning and scuffing overall. Moderate staining to rear board. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Kathmandu: Tiwari's Pilgrims Book House, 1991 F-/F. 2 vols. 8vo. original turquoise boards (a few marks) in dustwrapper; pp. xx (last blank), 608, with 3 folding maps & numerous illustrations; xvi (last blank), 664, with 1 folding map & numerous illustrations. Heavy set (2.2kgs), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine set.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. F-/F.

Hurst and Blackett, Limited and New York: Charles Scribners Sons, London,. Very Good+. 1903. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Burgundy cloth cover with gilt embossed decor has light fraying to corners and spine caps and scuffing but clean, bright, and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographic images and 3 folding maps. Rear large map is fragile with tears and additional creases. .

London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited and New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1903. First Edition. 5 folding maps on 4 sheets, frontispiece portraits, plates (some in color), in-text illustrations. xvii, [3], 608 pp.; xiv, [2], 664 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's burgundy cloth, decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Generally a bit rubbed and worn with minor loss to extremities, occasional foxing and toning throughout, toned folding maps with some fraying edges and short marginal tears not affecting images. First Edition. 5 folding maps on 4 sheets, frontispiece portraits, plates (some in color), in-text illustrations. xvii, [3], 608 pp.; xiv, [2], 664 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Yakushi H100b

London 1903, Hurst. Blue cloth, very good, head & tail of spine worn,covers soiled,bit dusty & faded,8 color, 387 b.w. photos 5 color fold-out maps, 608+664p., 2 vol. set, 17 x 25 cm. FIRST EDITION EXCEPTIONALLY RARE . *** **** *** . . AN EARLY VISIT TO TIBET & LASSA BY A FOREIGNER . . .SUPERB PRIMARY RESOURCE COVERING THE WHOLE TRIP ON FOOT . . . LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR & B.W. PHOTOS . . * An important primary source. Covering the discovery trek beginning in Stockholm to Kashgar, floating down the lonely Tarim, through the desert, across the Takla-Makan desert, a land of perpetual twilight, Lop-Nor and its sister lakes, a reedy desert wilderness, Northern Tibet, mountains, lakes, quagmires at high altitudes. . Across the Gobi, mountain defiles and waterless desert ruined towns of Lou-Lan, a vanished country, survey of the Lop desert, a wandering lake across Tibet from North to South, travelling amongst clouds, a Dash for Lhasa a forbidden land of the Holy Books, across Tibet to… Read More

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Stories. : Little Brown & Co, 1979. . First American paperback edition. . Paperback.. Near Fine. . One or two tiny dots to front, otherwise immaculate copy of first printing of paperback of author's scarce first book. Extremely rare, issued at the same time as the unobtainable hardcover first.

Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru M. Reischauer -9780674788015 Samurai and Silk - penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to present day economic titans. Only Haru Reischauer could have written this extraordinary family account, beginning with her two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America. Remarkable stories, those of their notable descendants, demonstrate the unbounded vision - determination that explain so much about Japan's legendary success.... history Japan bibliography Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru M. Reischauer 9780674788015 Uncorrected page proof ARC Harvard University press - March 1986 357 pages, with many black and white family photographs in rear.. light blue paper covers not… Read More

London: Frederick Muller LTD, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with penicl marking to inner board, trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with owner's pasted stamp to front cover, trace edge wear noted else bright, intact and whole. JEX 1/21

Hong Kong: Brownie Publishing, 2020. 1st edition. Paperback. like new/no dj as issued. Hong Kong, 2020, in Englishand Chinese. 7.5 - 6 inches, 140 pages. Like new condition. Ships from Hawaii. ==. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."Scars and bruises may fade, but we must remember what caused them. The purpose of《Wounds of Hong Kong》is to record police brutality. All 24 interviewees have sacrificed in their own ways during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Among the thousands wounded, they are only a few. I would like to sincerely thank them for sharing their experience, insights, and feelings to me. I remember at the beginning of the resistance outbreak in June of 2019. As a photographer/journalist, I felt unsure. Protesters all covered their faces with masks, so how could I tell their stories? How can I search their ethos beneath the masks? However, my worry was quickly swept away as I realized that they weren't the only ones… Read More

This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire… Read More

School of Oriental & African Studies, Univ of London, 1987 First Printing in dust jacket as new, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, slight quiet soil to unlaminated jacket, neat gift inscription to endpaper, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; xxx + 367pp indexed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. As New/as new. Lifts the lid on organised crime in Asia. Scarce. 470pp. Fine in fine d/w. Stated First Edition in this edition - March 2003. Size 16.5 x 24cms. Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to Australian addresses.

This Book is a compilation of selected writings of Edgar Snow, assembled by his wife and the Author of this Book, Lois Wheeler Snow. These writings and added photographs pertain to the Chinese Revolution in the 20th Century. Book has 284 pages and more than 450 photographs from 20th Century China. This Book is a signed First Edition by the Author at a Book promotion in Kansas City.

Chicago: Adams Press, 1999. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 108 pages.