Brookline Village Books: History: Asia
found: 4 books

 
Davidson, Robyn
Desert Places
New York, Viking, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. 279pp. 24 cm. Very good condition A women's odyssey wit the wanderers of the Indian desert.
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Book number: 43034
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1899]
Catalogue: History: Asia
Keywords: Nomads - Thar Desert; Rabaris - Social Life and Customs; Thar Desert (India & Pakistan)

 
Leasor, James
The Red Fort; the Story of the Indian Mutiny of 1857
New York, Reynal, c1957. Hardcover. 383pp. 22 cm. Very good condition/good.
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Book number: 42294
USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 13.75 | JP¥ 2690]
Catalogue: History: Asia
Keywords: India - History

 
Starrett, Vincent
Oriental Encounters; Two Essays in Bad Taste
Chicago, Normandie house, 1938. 4 p.l. 11-45, [1] p. 25 cm. One of 249 copies printed by the Black Cat Press, signed by the author, and dedicated to the 31 editors who declined to publish these two essays, one of which is on Chinese eunuchs and the other on "honeycarts' used for waste removal. Very good condition, spine lightly faded Signed by the author for Ted Mecke. Laid in is a photograph of "the two oldest eunuchs at Kang T'ieh Mu.
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Book number: 42562
USD 144.00 [Appr.: EURO 134.75 | £UK 115.5 | JP¥ 22788]
Catalogue: History: Asia
Keywords: China -- Social Life and Customs; Press Books; Black Cat Press; Autographed Books

 
Taylor, Geraldine Guinness (Mrs. Howard Taylor)
Pastor Hsi of North China, One of China's Christians : With Portrait, Illustrations and Coloured Map, by Mrs. Howard Taylor
Philadelphia, China Inland Mission, [1904]. Hardcover. xxii, 401 p. ; illus. fold. map. Very good condition, covers lightly worn Prefece dated 1903.
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Book number: 43139
USD 46.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 | £UK 37 | JP¥ 7280]
Catalogue: History: Asia
Keywords: Hsi, Shêng-Mo; Missions -- China

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