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1st Edition, 8vo wine cloth bds hardcover in dust jacket with light wear. VG/vgdj: xi+122pp; Translated from the Japanese by Charles Dunn. FROM THE PUBLISHER: two best-selling stories by Takeshi Kaiko, a popular contemporary Japanese writer deal with a theme often found in Kaiko's work: the plight of the individual struggling against the overwhelming pressures of the system. Panic, written in 1957, relates the story of Shunsuke, a hardworking young bureaucrat, as he tries to steer his own course through a corrupt world of officialdom. An employee of the forestry department of a local government, Shunsuke predicts a plague of rats and submits a detailed report outlining countermeasures against the pending disaster. First the report is snubbed; then, when the plague becomes reality and the town begins to panic, Shunsuke's superiors react in stereotypically bungling bureaucratic fashion. The Runaway, published 1959 two years after Panic, is set in Ch'in/Qin China in the third century B.C., a brief… Read More

4to burgundy cloth, with gilt title labels/ violet, decorative dust jacket. An unabridged high quality reprint of the original edition published in Stockholm, 1957. UNREAD NF/nfdj: 332pp, index by chinese radicals. In English with accompanying handwritten Chinese calligraphy of graphs. A comprehensive lexicon of Chinese characters with three transliterated pronunciations provided: Early Chou; Ancient Chinese; Modern Mandarin; English gloss. A classic and forever useful compendium.Chinese language, sinology, Early Chou [ca 1000bc] Ancient Chinese [ca 600ad], Modern Mandarin

1stedn; 8vo illuswraps, unread some rubbing to covers ow VG: xii+59pp. index, notes, some fullpg col plates, bw illus

1st Edition. 4to Cream-colored cloth with black lettering on spine. Dj has rubbed and chipped edges. Appears unread, VG/vgdj: xx+308 pages plus 5 pages of appendices, photo illus, map

1stedn thus; 4to Magazine.Condition: Very Good. 2001: George Magazine John Kennedy Jr. cover Farewell Issue; larry King, tom Wolfe, helen Thomas Interview

1stedn thus, Reprinted from the Quarterly of Journal of the Taiwan Museum, June 1963; 4to brown cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. Covers handled and lightly dustsoiled, extremities lightly bumped, front hinge cracked. [NOT A pamphlet, Ow VG/ndj:80pp., color photos. Poisonous Snakes of Vietnam by Herndon G. Dowling (1966), is laid in]