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| CLUNE, FRANK Flight to Formosa; a Holiday and Fact-Finding Tour of Nationalist China's Fortress of Freedom and the Ports of Hong Kong and Macao Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1958, Stated First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographic. Travel, 500 g; the XX, 272 pages, and page maps, text is illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece, and 14 other pages of black-and-white photography. Slight darkening of the edges of the text block, the darkening of the top edge of the dust jacket and light rubbing to the same. Tanning of the top half of the rear panel of the dust jacket. Otherwise in very good condition. This book recounts Frank Clune's five weeks of travel, his interview with President Chiang Kai-shek, and the leaders of the Nationalist government. This book vividly describes the tension in this troubled area in the late 1950s. Very Good/Good. AUD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.63 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1470] Book number: 0216301 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| CLUNE, FRANK Flight to Formosa; a Holiday and Fact-Finding Tour of Nationalist China's Fortress of Freedom and the Ports of Hong Kong and Macao Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1958, Stated First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographic. Travel, 500 g; the XX, 272 pages, and page maps, text is illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece, and 14 other pages of black-and-white photography. Slight darkening of the edges of the text block, the darkening of the top edge of the dust jacket and light rubbing to the same. Tanning of the top half of the rear panel of the dust jacket. Otherwise in very good condition. This book recounts Frank Clune's five weeks of travel, his interview with President Chiang Kai-shek, and the leaders of the Nationalist government. This book vividly describes the tension in this troubled area in the late 1950s. Very Good/Good. AUD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.63 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1470] Book number: 0216301 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| FAIRBANK, JOHN K., CRAIG, ALBERT M., REISCHAUER, EDWIN O. East Asia: the Modern Transformation (a History of East Asian Civilization volume Two London, George Allen & Unwin. 1967, Second Impression. Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Various. History -- Asia, 1.6 kg; XVI, 960 pages, last four pages in advertisements for other books by the publisher. The text is illustrated with maps, and 80 black-and-white plates (photographs), indexed, and includes a pronunciation guide of Chinese, Korean and Japanese, as well as bibliographical suggestions. The dust jacket is illustrated with a map showing the Asian continent from East Pakistan through to Japan. The dust jacket is badly damaged, with chips, and tears. A digital image is available upon request. Previous owner's name on front end page, which is a map of East Asia and the rear end page with a map of East and Southeast Asia, going as far south as Darwin. This volume completes a two-volume interpretive account of East Asian civilisation. Covering the 19th and 20th centuries, the second volume gives a definitive, lucid history of this complex, vital area. Please note that this book will weigh more than 1 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Good/Damaged -- Price Clipped. AUD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 15 US$ 22.18 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 1959] Book number: 0216482 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| FAIRBANK, JOHN K., CRAIG, ALBERT M., REISCHAUER, EDWIN O. East Asia: the Modern Transformation (a History of East Asian Civilization volume Two London, George Allen & Unwin. 1967, Second Impression. Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Various. History -- Asia, 1.6 kg; XVI, 960 pages, last four pages in advertisements for other books by the publisher. The text is illustrated with maps, and 80 black-and-white plates (photographs), indexed, and includes a pronunciation guide of Chinese, Korean and Japanese, as well as bibliographical suggestions. The dust jacket is illustrated with a map showing the Asian continent from East Pakistan through to Japan. The dust jacket is badly damaged, with chips, and tears. A digital image is available upon request. Previous owner's name on front end page, which is a map of East Asia and the rear end page with a map of East and Southeast Asia, going as far south as Darwin. This volume completes a two-volume interpretive account of East Asian civilisation. Covering the 19th and 20th centuries, the second volume gives a definitive, lucid history of this complex, vital area. Please note that this book will weigh more than 1 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Good/Damaged -- Price Clipped. AUD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 15 US$ 22.18 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 1959] Book number: 0216482 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| LANGLEY, NOEL The Rift in the Lute London, Arthur Baker Ltd. 1952, First British Edition. Black Boards, 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Humour, 225 grammes; 192 pages. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Red tint to top paper edge. Minor bumping to be top spine edge and rubbing and bumping to the book corners. Shelfwear to both the top and bottom book edges. Rubbing and fading of the book panels and spine. The gilt has almost worn off the lower spine edge. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and to the first few and last few pages of the book. Original bookseller's sticker to the low-end edge of the front paste down. Previous owners notation to the rear endpaper. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a carnival barker and various people, with black writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed and slightly faded. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and there is a little chipping to the top dustwrapper edge. The lower 1.5 " of the spine is missing and there is a extended peace missing from the rear panel measuring 1.5 " X 1.5 ". Heavy rubbing to all creases of the dustwrapper. The number " 3556 " has been stamped to the lower dustwrapper rear edge. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Foxing of the dustwrapper has been noted to the verso. A satire set in ancient China where Lao-Ti, a naive young man, wanders far from his home and his only teacher is adversity. Digital image available upon request. Reasonable for Age/Ordinary -- Price Clipped. AUD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.63 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1470] Book number: 0104233 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| LANGLEY, NOEL The Rift in the Lute London, Arthur Baker Ltd. 1952, First British Edition. Black Boards, 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Humour, 225 grammes; 192 pages. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Red tint to top paper edge. Minor bumping to be top spine edge and rubbing and bumping to the book corners. Shelfwear to both the top and bottom book edges. Rubbing and fading of the book panels and spine. The gilt has almost worn off the lower spine edge. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and to the first few and last few pages of the book. Original bookseller's sticker to the low-end edge of the front paste down. Previous owners notation to the rear endpaper. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a carnival barker and various people, with black writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed and slightly faded. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and there is a little chipping to the top dustwrapper edge. The lower 1.5 " of the spine is missing and there is a extended peace missing from the rear panel measuring 1.5 " X 1.5 ". Heavy rubbing to all creases of the dustwrapper. The number " 3556 " has been stamped to the lower dustwrapper rear edge. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Foxing of the dustwrapper has been noted to the verso. A satire set in ancient China where Lao-Ti, a naive young man, wanders far from his home and his only teacher is adversity. Digital image available upon request. Reasonable for Age/Ordinary -- Price Clipped. AUD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.63 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1470] Book number: 0104233 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| LEASOR, JAMES Mandarin-Gold; A Novel London, Heinemann. 1973, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Novel -- Adventure, 460 g.; VI, 256 pages, last four pages blank intentionally, From the Writer to the Reader will stop brown coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the top book corners. Light rubbing to the book edges. Light browning to the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing an old-fashioned gun, and open wooden chest with a poppy flower in its against a wood grained background with white and yellow titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and to the corners. There is a small, 0.25 ", tear to the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. When Dr Robert Gunn steps off the ship in Canton in 1833 he received a letter saying that his fiancee has run away with another man. He then wholeheartedly decides to make enough money that no woman would ever spurn him again. How to do this? The forbidden Coast Trade [ opium trade ]. This is his story. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. This China. Good/Good. AUD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.78 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1306] Book number: 0107347 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| LEASOR, JAMES Mandarin-Gold; A Novel London, Heinemann. 1973, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Novel -- Adventure, 460 g.; VI, 256 pages, last four pages blank intentionally, From the Writer to the Reader will stop brown coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the top book corners. Light rubbing to the book edges. Light browning to the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing an old-fashioned gun, and open wooden chest with a poppy flower in its against a wood grained background with white and yellow titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and to the corners. There is a small, 0.25 ", tear to the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. When Dr Robert Gunn steps off the ship in Canton in 1833 he received a letter saying that his fiancee has run away with another man. He then wholeheartedly decides to make enough money that no woman would ever spurn him again. How to do this? The forbidden Coast Trade [ opium trade ]. This is his story. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. This China. Good/Good. AUD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.78 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1306] Book number: 0107347 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| MILN, LOUISE JORDAN In a Yun - Nan Courtyard London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1929, 4th Edition. Blue Cloth, Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Novel, 352 pages, last 2 blank, glossary. Blue coloured boards with dark blue writing on the front panel and spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine where there is also been discoloration and fraying. Bumping to the book corners and is also been a small amount of fraying as well. The top 1.5 " and the lower spine edge have become quite faded and there seems to be some crinkling of the cloth of the spine as well. Browning and foxing to the paper edges and browning and offset tanning to the endpapers. Gift inscription to the free front endpaper and there has been also a notation of "Bright Library" No 129 which has also been placed on the free front endpaper. Slight tanning to the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese pagoda, with blue and white writing on the front panel and blue and black on the spine. The dustwapper is in pretty awful condition in as much it is rubbed, faded and has large pieces missing. Rubbing and chipping, with loss, to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the dustwapper corners. There is a 3 " tear to the back panel which arcs into the body of the dustwapper. The back panel has become quite rubbed and grubby. Another in this author's Chinese novels. Part of Hodder & Stoughton " Yellow Jacket " series. Ordinary/Average. AUD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 US$ 12.94 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1143] Book number: 0103534 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| MILN, LOUISE JORDAN In a Yun - Nan Courtyard London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1929, 4th Edition. Blue Cloth, Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Novel, 352 pages, last 2 blank, glossary. Blue coloured boards with dark blue writing on the front panel and spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine where there is also been discoloration and fraying. Bumping to the book corners and is also been a small amount of fraying as well. The top 1.5 " and the lower spine edge have become quite faded and there seems to be some crinkling of the cloth of the spine as well. Browning and foxing to the paper edges and browning and offset tanning to the endpapers. Gift inscription to the free front endpaper and there has been also a notation of "Bright Library" No 129 which has also been placed on the free front endpaper. Slight tanning to the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese pagoda, with blue and white writing on the front panel and blue and black on the spine. The dustwapper is in pretty awful condition in as much it is rubbed, faded and has large pieces missing. Rubbing and chipping, with loss, to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the dustwapper corners. There is a 3 " tear to the back panel which arcs into the body of the dustwapper. The back panel has become quite rubbed and grubby. Another in this author's Chinese novels. Part of Hodder & Stoughton " Yellow Jacket " series. Ordinary/Average. AUD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 US$ 12.94 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1143] Book number: 0103534 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| NIAN, ZENG Peking Hong Kong, Studio Publications. 1990, First. (ISBN: 96274600 1X) Cloth, Oblong 4to. Ill.: Zeng Nian. Photography, 120 pp. introduction by Ian Lambot, foreword by Zeng Nian, numerous black & white photographs. every piece of text uttered trilingually in English, Chinese & French. Work covers the period 1987 -- 1990. afterword by Charles Goddard. Minor shelf wear, all else in good order. Good/Good. AUD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.48 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 1633] Book number: 0200135 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| NIAN, ZENG Peking Hong Kong, Studio Publications. 1990, First. (ISBN: 96274600 1X) Cloth, Oblong 4to. Ill.: Zeng Nian. Photography, 120 pp. introduction by Ian Lambot, foreword by Zeng Nian, numerous black & white photographs. every piece of text uttered trilingually in English, Chinese & French. Work covers the period 1987 -- 1990. afterword by Charles Goddard. Minor shelf wear, all else in good order. Good/Good. AUD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.48 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 1633] Book number: 0200135 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| ROPER, MYRA Emperor's China, People's China Richmond, Victoria, Heinemann. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0858592401) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History -- China, 600 g; XXII, 296 pages, includes bibliography, index, and illustrated with black-and-white photography. Double page end page maps, photographic illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the author, on the half title page, and there is a second signature below, which appears to be Whitlam's, a digital image can be provided to help with verification. In this book, the author turns to considerable narrative skills to the historical development of modern China from the end of the Ming Dynasty, and at the time of the first significant intrusion of the West, to the changing scene of today. -- the treatment is thematic; parts 1 and 2 narrate the events of the transition from Emperor's to People's China; part 3 expands on China and the World; part 4 On the Peasant Revolutionary Tradition and part 5 on the Role of the Intellectuals. And the role of women is noted throughout. Good/Good. Signed by Author on Half Title Page. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 23.1 | £UK 14 | JP¥ 2041] Book number: 0221236 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| ROPER, MYRA Emperor's China, People's China Richmond, Victoria, Heinemann. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0858592401) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History -- China, 600 g; XXII, 296 pages, includes bibliography, index, and illustrated with black-and-white photography. Double page end page maps, photographic illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the author, on the half title page, and there is a second signature below, which appears to be Whitlam's, a digital image can be provided to help with verification. In this book, the author turns to considerable narrative skills to the historical development of modern China from the end of the Ming Dynasty, and at the time of the first significant intrusion of the West, to the changing scene of today. -- the treatment is thematic; parts 1 and 2 narrate the events of the transition from Emperor's to People's China; part 3 expands on China and the World; part 4 On the Peasant Revolutionary Tradition and part 5 on the Role of the Intellectuals. And the role of women is noted throughout. Good/Good. Signed by Author on Half Title Page. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 23.1 | £UK 14 | JP¥ 2041] Book number: 0221236 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| SHI, CANG, ET AL -- EDITORS China Scenes Beijing, China Pictorial. 1980, Second Printing. Ecru Linen, Folio. Ill.: Photographic. Local History -- China, 2.35 kg; III, 213 pages, heavy card decorated and pages, foreword by Liao Chengzhi, and in the book opens into part, full, and a double page photography, with each of the 211 photographs having a caption in Chinese and in English. There are a couple of smudge marks on the margins of a page and the webbing of the binding is visible and a couple of points through the book. However the hinges are solid, and the board shown no damage themselves, the dust jacket has a printing imperfection at the upped right-hand quadrant of the front panel. The slipcase is simulated cloth, actually cardboard that has been blind stamped. Traces of fading to the edges of the front panel. Please enquire as to postage costs for delivery outside Australia, because, with packaging this book will weigh more than 1 kg. Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 2449] Book number: 0216218 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| SHI, CANG, ET AL -- EDITORS China Scenes Beijing, China Pictorial. 1980, Second Printing. Ecru Linen, Folio. Ill.: Photographic. Local History -- China, 2.35 kg; III, 213 pages, heavy card decorated and pages, foreword by Liao Chengzhi, and in the book opens into part, full, and a double page photography, with each of the 211 photographs having a caption in Chinese and in English. There are a couple of smudge marks on the margins of a page and the webbing of the binding is visible and a couple of points through the book. However the hinges are solid, and the board shown no damage themselves, the dust jacket has a printing imperfection at the upped right-hand quadrant of the front panel. The slipcase is simulated cloth, actually cardboard that has been blind stamped. Traces of fading to the edges of the front panel. Please enquire as to postage costs for delivery outside Australia, because, with packaging this book will weigh more than 1 kg. Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 2449] Book number: 0216218 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| VARIOUS One Half of the Sky; Selection from Contemporary Women Writers of China London, William Heinemann. 1987, First British Edition. (ISBN: 0434640387) Cream Cloth, Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Compilation, X, 143 pp. + 5 blank. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge of book is "dusty". Minimal edgewear to the top of the dustwrapper. Heel of spine is bumped. Introduction by Frances Wood, translated by Angela Knox and R. A. Roberts. The eight stories, spanning 50 years from the early 1920s to the period after the Cultural Revolution, have been chosen both for their intrinsic quality and and to illustrate the emergence and development of a flourishing School of women writers. Good/Good. AUD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.17 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1429] Book number: 0201086 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. | ||
| VARIOUS One Half of the Sky; Selection from Contemporary Women Writers of China London, William Heinemann. 1987, First British Edition. (ISBN: 0434640387) Cream Cloth, Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Compilation, X, 143 pp. + 5 blank. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge of book is "dusty". Minimal edgewear to the top of the dustwrapper. Heel of spine is bumped. Introduction by Frances Wood, translated by Angela Knox and R. A. Roberts. The eight stories, spanning 50 years from the early 1920s to the period after the Cultural Revolution, have been chosen both for their intrinsic quality and and to illustrate the emergence and development of a flourishing School of women writers. Good/Good. AUD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.17 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1429] Book number: 0201086 Click here to order or inquire at Syber's Books. |
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