Silence Broken by Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil - 2000: Korean Comfort Women

New York: Columbia University Press [0-231-03351-6] 1971, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 372pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Map endpapers, notes, bibliography, glossary, tables, index. Translated by John Andrew Boyle. (History--Asia, History--Asia, Khan Dynasty, Mongol Empire).

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, hardcover, x-260 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light scratches, in new Brodart sleeve. The award-winning author of Freedom's Children helps recount the stories of a number of young Japanese Americans whose lives and families were changed forever when the attack on Pearl Harbor prompted FDR to sign an executive order forcing their evacuation and imprisonment. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Appended: Glossary, Chronology, Acronyms, Camp Sites, Who's Who, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780399226380

Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1968. Facsimile of 1896 edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no dj as issued. Hardcover without dust jackets as issued Six volumes bound in three volumes in original maroon cloth with gilt lettered gray spine label and folding map No notes, no markings, no ex-library "Letters Received by the East India Company from its Servants in the East" Transcribed from the 'original Coorespondence' Series of the India Office Records by Charles Danvers. Ships from Hawaii. Hardcover Very Good "Letters Received by the East India Company from its Servants in the East" Transcribed from the 'original Correspondence' Series of the India Office Records by Charles Danvers Facsimile reprint of the 1896 London edition by publisher Nico Israel, Amsterdam, 1968.

Dust jacket has some fading, smudges underneath plasticized cover (done by previous owner); foxing to top edge. Top right corner of ffep has been cut off (see photos), and book stamp from previous owner in red ink applied to ffep. Otherwise a clean and sound copy of this book; no writing, highlighting, odors, stains, tears or folds. Ships within three business days. Please note: if you are choosing the expedited shipping option, we will still ship the book within three (3) business days of your order via UPS Ground Service, which will deliver the package, upon shipment, in between one to five (1-5) business days. We encourage buyers to choose the normal shipping option, USPS Media Mail, which generally delivers books in between 3 to 8 business days and has been a reliable and efficient shipment method for our organization and customers for many years.

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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: L. Beling Tetens [1910], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 750. (Limp leather) Very good. 320pp. Black pebble-grained leather with gilt emblem on the spine. Top edge gilt, decorated endpapers, decorated title page, color frontispiece, photographs, notes, index. The spine is very lightly worn at the top and bottom, the corners are slightly turned in. L. Beling Tetens is also cited as the publisher on the title page. Edited with annotation by Charles Welsh. Publisher series: Oriental Series Ambassadors' Edition. Locale: Manchuria. (History, Description and Travel, Economic Conditions, History, Trade).

New Delhi, Lancer Publishers, 1992, hardcover, 345 pp, edition unknown as copyright page has been neatly removed, Signed, inscribed to the previous owner, and dated by the Author on the front endpaper, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A sweeping novel of historical fiction set in Central Asia and Northern India in the period 1814-1872. ISBN 9788172120047

Brown hardcover, no dj. Foredge looks like it was nawed on by a mouse, almost half way up. Spine is bent. Near Fine inside except pages are discolored from the acid in the paper. Main portion of Cover is VG. Wear along front edge of spine at bottom. Title Page shows the publisher as The Reader's League of America New York City, New York. Copyright Page states 1930 Pearl S. Buck. (No other publisher listed). The author thanks Asia Magazine for allowing her to reprint some previous material.

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.

signed by first ownerTai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium .It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!