Aubier, Catherine translated by Eileen Finletter & Ian Murray

Chinese Horoscopes: The Twelve Signs and What They Mean

NY: Crescent Books, 1988. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise a very good dust jacket.

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Book number: 2020213

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 051766951x

Chang, Jung

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1992. 1st Anchor paperback edition., Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (softcover book). 4to., Mesmerizing. A first hand account of the revolution followed by Mao's idiosyncratic rule and the resultant chaos and extreme hardship among the party faithful; 524 pages.

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Book number: 2018573

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 385425473

Cotterell, Arthur

The First Emperor of China: the Greatest Archeological Find of Our Time

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In 1974 archaeologists upcovered the tomb of Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, who unified China from its feudal period, which included 7, 000 life-size terracotta soldiers, chariots and cavalry.

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Book number: 653880

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 30598893

Eckstein, Alexander

China's Economic Development: the Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology

Ann Arbor House: University of Michigan Press, 1976. 1st paperback edition., Previous owner's ink name on inside front cover otherwise clean, unmarked near fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., From the reviews. this volume contains some of the most important analytical and interpretive writing on the Chinese economy by one of the world's leading specialist's.

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Book number: 613013

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 472083104

Greenblatt, Sidney L

The People of Taihang: an Anthology of Family Histories

White Plains: International Arts & Sciences Press, 1976. 1st printing of 1st edition., Foxing on first & last two pages otherwise very good hard cover book/ no dust jacket., The Taihang Mountains straddle the border between Shansi and Hopei provinces; it's a harsh terrain and the scene of warfare over the centuries.

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Book number: 613016

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 087332059X

Gu, Dongsheng (Preface)

A Selection of Photos Taken in Zhouzhuang

Jiangsu: Jiangsu Photographic Association, 1997. Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (softcover) in laminated paper slipcase., In the spring of 1996 the Jiangsu Photographic Association sponsored a traveller's photo festival and contest. Zhouzhuang is intersected by four rivers and resembles Venice. There are some awfully beautiful images in this collection; 74 pages + Index and copyright page, illustrated.

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Book number: 2563206

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 7800072223

Klein, Donald W & Anne B Clark

Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism: 1921-1965 Volume II (Lo Jui-Ch'Ing to Yun Tai-Ying) Only

Cambridge: Harvard University, 1971. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ light edgewear otherwise very good+ dust jacket., Biographies on 433 of the most prominent Chinese Communist figures.

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Book number: 613022

Catalogue: China

Lai, TC Editor, Compiled & Written By H Rolfe

Things Chinese

Kowloon: Swindon Book Co, 1971. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. 8vo., A useful glossary and history of traditional Chinese terms, cultural practices and events; 188 pages, a few illustrations.

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Book number: 2018609

Catalogue: China

Lamb, Harold

Genghis Khan: the Emperor of All Men

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1927. reprint., Front hinge separating (but intact) otherwise good hard cover book/ no dust jacket.

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Book number: 613025

Catalogue: China

Lau, Theodora

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes

NY: Harper Perennial, 1979. 11th printing., Near fine clean, unmarked, complete paperback in decorative wrappers (softcover book). 8vo., A comprehensive & classic survey of the Chinese lunar cycles and the five basic elements and their relationship to your horoscope; 314 pages, illustrated.

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Book number: 2018596

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 60907525

Lehman, Steve With An Introduction By Robert Coles & An Essay By Robbie Barnett

The Tibetans: a Struggle to Survive

NY: Umbrage Editions, 1998. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 652159

Catalogue: China/tibet

Keywords: 944092659

Leynse, James P

Freedom's Gateway

Claremont: Creative Press, 1957. Slight darkening along the top edge otherwise near fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Inscribed by author on half title page.

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Book number: 613027

Catalogue: China

Logan, Pamela

Among Warriors: a Martial Artist in Tibet

Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1996. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine price clipped dust jacket., Inscribed, To xxxx, My friends and fellow pilgrims, by author on the title page.

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Book number: 652019

Catalogue: China/tibet

Keywords: 879516437

Meisner, Maurice

Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism

NY: Antheneum, 1970. 1st Antheneum paperback edition., Occassional pencil underlining otherwise a sound reading copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). j, Li first began organizing for the Marxist movement in 1927.

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Book number: 655583

Catalogue: China

Morath, Inge & Arthur Miller

Chinese Encounters

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. 2nd printing., Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Miller & Morath traveled in China in 1978. Rather than a closed society, they found the people insisted on talking to them.

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Book number: 651634

Catalogue: China