A Short History of Chinese Art.
New York: Pantheon, (1946). Hardcover. frontis, index, 139, (79) black & white plates. Original blue cloth. dj. 31 cm. Modest foxing on page edges. More
New York: Pantheon, (1946). Hardcover. frontis, index, 139, (79) black & white plates. Original blue cloth. dj. 31 cm. Modest foxing on page edges. More
London: Cassell and Company, 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, 120 plates (12 colored, with tissue guards, and 108 black & white), 3 unnumbered preliminary leaves, 160, [1]p. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt in English and Chinese on backstrip and front cover. 25cm. Minor fraying and wear at ends of..... More
Shanghai: Kelley & Walsh, 1925. 5th ed. Hardcover. index, iv, 766p. Original orange cloth. 21cm. Spine sloping. Modest cover soiling. Backstrip slightly faded and has inked white call numbers toward bottom. Small bookplate on front pastedown. No jacket. More
Shanghai: The China Inland Mission, 1924. Hardcover. index, ix, 128p. Original 1/4 leather (with dark cloth). 24 cm. Leather backstrip dry and somewhat scuffed. Text in Wen-Li (Literary Chinese) and English. More
New Haven: Yale, (c. 1994). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations (many in color), photo, maps, index, 307p. Original dark blue cloth. dj. 31cm. SIGNED on half-title by James Cahill who wrote one of the introductory essays appearing in this volume. Introduction by Richard M. Barnhart. Exhibited at the Yale University Art..... More
Nikolaevsk, Alaska: Nikolaevsk Publishing Co., c. 1989. Paperback. 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. Black plastic comb binding.28 cm. Text double-columned Title and text in parallel columns in Russian and English translation. No dates in her account but Basargin says she was about 12 when her family fled and made their..... More
London: John Murray, 1875. Hardcover. frontis, folding map, illustrations, x, 287p. Rebound in contemporary 1/2 leather. 20cm. Cover somewhat worn with substantial scuffing and spotting. Former owner's name stamp (Captain B. Long, R. N.") on half-title. Contents sound with some light browning and scattered foxing. More
Huhehaote Shi: Nei Menggu ren min chu ban she, 1997. Hardcover. 2 vols. a few color photos, maps (3 folding), 26, 1874p. 26cm. Ex lib. (discarded by Harvard-Yenching library). Chinese text. About Byannur Meng in China's Inner Mongolia. More
Boston: The Page Company, 1917. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, folding map, index, xiv, 404p. Original green cloth decorated and illustrated on front cover in blue, green, red and gold. 20 cm. Top edge gilt. No jacket. An appealing copy. More
Boston: The Page Company, 1917. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, folding map, index, xiv, 404p. Original green cloth decorated and illustrated on front cover in blue, green, red and gold. 20 cm. Top edge gilt. No jacket. Appealing copy but, sadly, lacking 12 of the black and white photos. More
Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka" 1965. Paperback. 225, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Contents somewhat browned. Russian text. Kratkie soobshcheniia Instituta narodo Azii, 76. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSR. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1996). 1st ed. Hardcover. Illustrated (b & w), index, xix, 295p. Original cloth. dj. 28cm. SIGNED by Bickford on title-page. This scarce study was awarded a Joseph Levenson Book Prize as the best book of the year on pre-20th century China. More
Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka," Glav. red. vostochnoi lit-ry, 1981. Hardcover. 301p. Original brown boards. 22cm. Some splitting along front joint. No jacket. Russian text. More
Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, 1996. Hardcover. 2 vols. 2 folding maps, index, xii, 334, x, 352p. 24cm. No Jackets. The Islamic World in Foreign Travel Accounts (series), Volumes 71-72. Added title-page in Arabic at end of each volume. Reprint, limited to 80 copies, of..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1937). Hardcover. This volume ONLY (of 3). xv, 473. (2)p. Original blue cloth. 46 cm. Backstrip worn at ends.Rear joint partially split with some later glue repair leaving split visible. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. A large and rather heavy volume. Copyright page identifies..... More
London: Frederick Muller, (1981). Hardcover. Illustrated (black and white and quite a few in color), index, v, 429p. Original cloth. dj. 33cm. Chipping and wear along jacket edges. Some cover fading along edges. Contents sound and clean. More
Moskva: Voen. izd-vo ministerstva oborony SSSR, 1982. Paperback. 80p. Wrapper. 21cm. Russian text. More
San Francisco: California Division of Fair Employment Practices, June 1965. Paperback. 52p. Wrapper. 28cm. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell, (c. 1912). 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), illustrations, photos, maps, 240p. Original red cloth. 20 cm. Lacks one photo (of Sun Yat Sen's daughters which should face page 174)). Spine slightly sloped. Covers slightly soiled. No jacket. More
Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she: Xin hua shu dian jing shou, 1990[-1997]. Hardcover. Volume I only (of 3). 9p. [Preface in Chinese and English], iii(p.) [Table of Contents in Chinese and English] , 14p. [Foreword and List of Plates in Chinese and English], 35p. [Notes on the Plates in..... More
London: Long, 1903. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, xiv, [2], 307p. plus 40p. publisher's catalog dated 1/03. Original red cloth. 22cm. Moderate cover soil and some spotting. Upper right corner discolored to purple on front cover. Former owner's name on title-page. Half-title browned and the tissue guard for the frontis..... More
Turnhout: Time-Life Books, (c. 1983). Hardcover. viii, 607p. 21cm. Bookplate. No Jacket. French text. Reprint of the Paris edition of 1799. More
Peiping: November, 1945`. 1st ed. Paperback. 22p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. OCLC lists only a copy of the 2nd ed. (1946 -- at the National Library of Australia). More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 761p. dj. 26cm. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1959. Paperback. 72p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. More