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The Chinese-English Dictionary
Torrance, California, U.S.A. Heian International Publishing, Incorporated 1989 0893463159 / 9780893463151 First American Edition Soft Cover Fine
Crisp, clean, as new copy. No spine crease, no cover lift, no names or writing. Pages and page edges pristine. Clearly never used. Contents are an adaptation of the dictionary compiled by the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and published in 1979. All entries arranged by Chinese Phonetic alphabetical order. Includes a Chinese character radical index plus six appendices. Contains over 5000 single character entries and over 80,000 compound entries, set phrases and examples. Emphasis is on modern Chinese and modern English. 564 pages.
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16.95 USD
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Ayscough, Florence Firecracker Land; Pictures of the Chinese World for Younger Readers
Cambridge Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press 1932 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fair
Book itself is very clean and nice with yellow boards printed in blue with design of Chinese kites. Nice map endpapers. Dustjacket is tattered with tears and creasing to top front and two small chips to same area, as well as a few other scattered small chips and one large one at crown of spine. Also a few small edgetears to upper back. Jacket has not been price-clipped and has been placed in brand new mylar for protection. Book is charmingly illustrated throughout with drawings by Lucille Douglass who also wrote a touching introduction about the author and how she brought the great dancer Pavlova to perform for Chinese children. The text is lovely -- for older children, but interesting for adults as well -- and discusses Chinese life and people, festivals, arts, travel and homes.351 pages. A gem.
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25.00 USD
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Beck, Louis J. New York's China Town; An Historical Presentation of Its People and Places
New York Bohemia Publishing Company 1898 First Edition Hard Cover Good-plus No DJ
Book is clean and tightly bound, but does show wear to crown and tail of spine including a small piece missing at crown. Hinges are tight, but back one shows a repair made with Japan paper similar in color to endpapers. Hinge is strong and tight, but you can see cracking to pages through repair paper (see photo). Silver ornamentation is bright on both face and spine and there are no names or writing. Book provides a detailed history of New York City's China Town during the last decade of the 19th century. Text is plentiful and detailed and is augmented by both both small black and white photos and drawings of daily life.The author covers quite a few topics including governance, the Chinese restaurants and laundries, the seclusion of women, family life, music, opium smoking (includes a detailed drawing of the apparatus), playing fan-tan, Chinese lotteries, prostitution, slave girls, Chinese funerals, Chinese cemeteries and much more. A fascinating book of 329 pages.
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140.00 USD
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Fleming, Peter News from Tartary; A Journey From Peking To Kashmir
London Jonathan Cape 1936 Third Impression Hard Cover Very Good No DJ
Handsome burgundy cloth boards and matching burgundy inked edge to top of text block embellished with bright gilt printing to face and spine. Former owner's name written small at front pastedown, but otherwise pages are clean and without fault. One small light spot to spine and a light crease to bottom front edge. Very nice fold-out map at front and numerous black and white photographs. An engrossing account of the author's journey overland from Peking, China toKashmir,India which took seven months and covered 3500 miles. 384 pages. Indexed.
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35.00 USD
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Kissick, Luther C. Jr. Guerilla One; The 74th Fighter Squadron Behind Enemy Lines in China, 1942-45.
Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A. Sunflower University Press 1983 089745040X / 9780897450409 First Edition Hard Cover Good-plus No DJ 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Very nice clean book -- pages pristine with no names or writing. Book is designed without a jacket, but front board is attractive with pictorial scene of China. Overall quite respetable, but does show these faults: a wrinkle at both top and bottom of yellow spine, a small chip to outer paper on upper front corner and a small puncture mark to red back board. Book measures 8-3/4"x11-1/4" and is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Text tells the story of the achievements of the 74th Guerilla Fighter Squadron of the 23rd Fighter Group, 68th Composite Wing, Fourteenth Air Force under the command of Genral Claire Lee Chennault in China during WWII.
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45.00 USD
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McLaren, Anne E. (translator) The Chinese Femme Fatale: Stories from the Ming Period
Australia Wild Peony Pty Ltd 1994 0646149245 / 9780646149240 First Printing Soft Cover Very Good
Very nice clean soft cover measuring 5-1/2"x 8-1/2". Clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or writing and no spine crease. Only fault is flat crease to lower back corner. Illustrated throughout with copies of Ming period woodcuts. Opens with essay entitled "Wicked Women in Cghoinese Literature followed by the stories and selected bibliography. 103 pages.
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20.00 USD
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Tien, Hung-Mao Government and Politics in Kuomintang, China, 1927-1937
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Stanford University Press 1972 0804708126 / 9780804708128 Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
Book istself is as new. Clean as a whistle inside and out with no bumps to boards. Former owner's name written small on front free endpaper for which we will supply a brand new book plate to use, or not, at buyer's discretion. Dustjacket paper retains crispness and shows just mild sunning to spine and top edge at back. Author analyzes the Chinese Nationalists' political and administrative branches with much new info on the Blue Shirts, the C.C. Clique, and the Political Study Clique. 226 pages
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Walker, Brian Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
Livingston, Montana Clark City Press 1993 0944439373 / 9780944439371 Second Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good SIGNED & Inscribed By Author
Book is clean and bright inside and out with no bumps to pale green boards. There are three initials on front free endpaper, but otherwise no writing save AUTHOR's inscription which reads thus, "To --- and ---- -- in gratitude for your presence. Brian." Eighty one lessons fro the works of the great Chinese philiosopher poet each accompanied by art rendered in the Chiense style. Book measures 5"x8-3/4" with 106 pages.
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16.95 USD
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Yutang, Lin Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage
Hong-Kong The Chinese University Press 1980 962201013X / 9789622010130 Second Printing Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book itself is clean as a whistle with pristine pages and page edges. No bumps to boards and no names or writing. Jacket shows no tears or chips and is handsome in brand new mylar. A massive book. A revolutionary dictionary for the student of the Chinese language which presents Chinese words as words rather than just characters though Chinese characters are included along with grammatical function, definition, and modified pronunciation to make each listing a readable whole. 1720 pages. Very heavy!
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45.95 USD
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