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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, 9.5 x 8.25 in., pp. xv, [1], 497, [3]; 373 figures in the text; bibliography and glossary of Chinese transliterations; fine in fine pictorial jacket. "A study of Buddhist halls, tombs, and pagodas built primarily through the patronage of the Northeast Asian lords of Qidan nationality from the mid-tenth through the first decades of the twelfth century ... This highly interpretive study will serve as a standard reference on a pivotal but heretofore ignored period of Chinese and East Asian art and cultural history."

Tokyo: Shibata Shoten, 1987. Near Fine. Fifth printing, oblong 8vo, pp [2], 118, [2]; parallel text in English and Japanese, 95 photographs, 56 of them full-page; full gray paper covered boards, pictorial dust jacket; light foxing to first and last pages and inside dust jacket, near fine. Takahashi joined the Shima Kanko Hotel at the age of 16, and after teaching himself English and French became a master of French cuisine. In 1971 he became head of Western cuisine, and in 1980 head chef for the hotel. He published a set of three books on French cuisine, each with luxurious photographs of dishes This volume is dedicated exclusively to lobster.