Diary from Burma

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.

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

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

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.

Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.

Attractive Nouveau Prize PLATE 1906 on first end paper. V Good copy. 147pp plus ads, 240 grms, 19 x 13 cms.

Perilous Journeys of Hercule Poirot Copyright 1937 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. 1937 DODD, MEAD BOOK CLUB EDITION. 630 pages. HERCULE POIROT OMNIBUS. USED. GOOD/GOOD CONDITION ORIGINAL BRIGHT RED AND YELLOW DUST JACKET. RARE . Stories are: The Mystery of the Blue Train, Death on the Nile, and Murder in Mesopotamia.

Melbourne, Australia: George Robertson and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed, gift inscription dated "India . Xmas 1912" on front free endpaper, some light foxing.. 1911. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Black and white frontispiece photo portrait of the author in a very large hat. Many other black and white photographs. The Australian actress, author, and magazine editor's memoir of her early 1900s trip through India which “endeavored to see new things and old places, to record familiar aspects of each town, and give a truthful photograph of social India as seen”. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 232 pages .

Tokyo, Japan: Sophia University, 1973. Previous owners impressed stamp to top of front free endpaper. 175 pages. The Senso Daijo-sai, the Japanese imperial accession ceremony. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.