Search Results: Asia from Minotavros Books

New York: AAA World-Wide Travel, Inc, 1968. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. XLII, 278 pp. B&W photos. Some rubbing to covers, curling and creasing to corners.

Toronto: Toronto Bahai Centre, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 4to (oblong). Green wrappers, [unpaginated]. Illustrated. Light curling to wrappers and some markings but o/w fine. Colour catalogue featuring paintings from the Wol-Ho Korean Painting Class in Toronto, celebrating the seventh exhibition of their paintings.

Hong Kong: Historic City Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed with date. First edition. Scarce. Soft cover. 256 pp. B&W photos and maps. Fine.

London: The Religious Tract Society. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. London Missionary Society's Edition. N.d., [ca. 1890 per WorldCat]. Orig. green publisher's cloth. 288 pp., 12 pp. ads. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping to spine ends, chafing to extremities. Light foxing to edges of text block. Stamp of the Jacklin Library, presentation stamp to ffep. Interior age toned. 0.

Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Buddhist Publication Society, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. The Wheel Publication No. 183/184/185. Cream card wraps with red and orange, sewn binding. [6], 119 p.p., [3 p.p., incl. select readings and errata]. Wraps are sunned to extremities, bumpted at spine ends and corners, light rubbing to rear joint and small stain to head of rear cover. The Samyutta Nikaya is one of the five great divisions of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon, the Ti Pitaka or "Three Baskets" of the doctrine, consituting the Buddhist Word for Theravada Buddhism.

Gravity Design International, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 15.25" x 12.25" Oblong 4to. Orig. navy cloth. Unpaginated, [~98 pp.]. Forty colour illustrations (incl. one fold-out) + B&W illustrations in text. Some very light soiling and a few scuffs to cloth, else fine.

Canada: Board of Information of The United Church of Canada, 1962. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Orig. illustrated wrappers. 156 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine and corners creased, spot of wear from tape removal to front joint.

New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green and yellow cloth. [22], xliii, 271 pp. B&W photos and maps. Light rubbing to spine ends. Ink ownership inscription. Dust jacket is lightly age toned, edge worn, a few small stains, a few short tears.

New York: Routledge, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good+. Softcover. A very good copy.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo (tall). Quarter black cloth, teal paper boards. Map endpapers. 204 pp. [16] pp. B&W photo plates. Bruising to spine ends and corners. Some fading to endpapers at hinges. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped and lightly worn at extremities. Darkening to spine. A rich and provocative memoir of a Westerner's first encounter with Communist China.

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hill, Jeff. 16mo. Pictorial paper boards, matching dust jacket. 63 pp. Red and black illustrations in text. Light rubbing to extremities, dust jacket is cropped to front flap, else fine.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1922. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 224 p.p. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather. Full black morocco with gilt detailing on covers and spine with red spine labels. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. A.E.G. Colour frontis & title, 5 b&w plates. Printed on archival-quality acid-neutral paper.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Lilienstein, Mabel Wong. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 190 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Some bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped and worn to extremities, damp staining to fore edge and spine head.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xvi, 713 p.p. B&W illustrations and maps in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, a few short tears and creases at head, slight age toning to flaps, some bumping to extremities. Covers the complex interpaly of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xx, 850 p.p. B&W illustrations in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, chipped to spine head and upper corner of front cover, a few short tears and creases at head.

London: Heinemann, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. brown cloth. xiv, 258 pp. [12] pp. plates B&W photos + B&W maps in text. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket sunned to spine, lightly bumped to edges, damp stain to foot of front joint. This book tells the story of one of the most astonishing epics of modern times: of how, out in the nameless wilds of Tibet, for nearly twentry years a bitter guerrilla war against China has been fought by a race of nomadic warriors, the Khambas - men formerly branded by Peking, Britain and the Dalai Lama himself as 'cavaliers, wild and accustomed by living by loot.'.

The London Missionary Society. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1900]. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. 287 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block. Stamp of the Jacklin Library, presentation stamp to ffep. Interior age toned. 0.

London: The London Missionary Society. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1900]. Orig. pink publisher's cloth. 276 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block. Stamp of the Jacklin Library, presentation stamp to ffep. Interior age toned. Publisher's pamphlet dated 1889 laid in. 0.

New York: Paperback Library, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 4" x 7" Soft cover. 256 pp. Spine tilted and creased. Covers lightly soiled. Interior age toned. Nearly 400 tantalizing, exotic dishes you can prepare with ingredients easily available at your grocery or supermarket.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.75" x 7.5" Oblong. Soft cover. 46 pp. B&W illustration. Spine tilted. Black scuff to top edge of text block. Foxing to edges of text block. Embossed ex libris stamp to ffep.