Search Results: Asia from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Leiden: Brill, 198. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Name of former owner on flyleaf. vii, 139 p. Seven scholarly essays with general index. Section B

Jena: Verlegt bei Eugen Diederichs, 1925.. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in reddish binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine as are the corners of the panels. Corners also have a bit of fraying. Boards are slightly bowed. Some browning along the edges of the boards and edges of the pages. Page edges are also lightly foxed. Small tear in binding by the title page. 448 pages with footnotes. Text of this work is in German on Indian philosophy and theosophy.

Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 192 p. w/ index. 7 scholarly articles on various aspects of ethnology in Taiwan.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxxiv [6], 571 p. w/maps, illus., footnotes, appemdives, bibliography, index. A new and detailed look at the crucial years before the Tibet Uprising of 1959, using new materiel from China and elsewhere,

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxiv (6), 571 p. w/ maps, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. a detailed study of the years that led up to the 1959 Tibetan uprising against China, using a variety of material, some newly available, from the Chinese government, interviews, and published and unpublished sources.

G. T. Sun Co., ca. 1937.. Softcover. Fair. 1st edition. Fair in woven matting over pliable paper, stringbound. Back cover has a tear from spine to foredge of woven matting. Spine and corners have some wear. Covers have some dirt and spots from small stains. Gift inscription on cover dated 1937. Approx. 58 p. w/illustrations, and a foreward by Socho Saito. A collection of 27 examples of different schools of ikebana, each with a brownish two tone photographic illustration and description, noting school, arranger, material, vessel, form, and meaning. An attractive and unusual book.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.. First edition. Good octavo hardcover with red leather spine and corners of panels with gilt lettering without dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards and some scuffing of the panels with some streaks and scratches. Leather on corners has rubbed on the edges to boards. Fading along the spine. Endpapers are foxed and pages are lightly browned and a little stiff but not brittle. Name of previous owner and stamp saying "Rare Book" on the front free endpaper. Endpapers are repaired with black library tape. Very little bit of red underlining in the text. 632 pages with 6 maps, index, footnotes, glossary and index. A scarce work on land systems, officials, and tenures in India under the Raj. This volume deals with Madras, Bombay and Sindh, Assam, Coorg, Berar, and Burma.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. John Darbyshire. Quarto-sized (slightly oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with a few minor tears and nicks, including a half-inch tear on upper edge of back cover, and minor scuffing to covers. Unpaginated with illustrations. A collection of paintings of how various old Australian gold towns looked in the second half of the twentieth century.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. First edition. Cloth. Very good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Sticker on back cover. 322 pages with notes after each chapter, bibliography, and index. A study of South Korean and American diplomacy focusing mainly on events surrounding and during the Korean War.