STARS AND STORMS OVER CHINA, 1931-1945
Vienna, Virginia: BHA Publications, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed by the author on the title page. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
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PICTURESQUE CHINA: Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces
New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1923. Hardcover. The German architect and historian Ernst Boerschmann (1873–1949) spent his professional life engaged in research on traditional Chinese architecture. This work, his most succesful, features 288 photographs and a...... More
PROTEINS, ANCIENT GREEKS AND T'ANG POETRY: A Round-Eyed Cyclopaedia
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
BEHIND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: Photographs from 1870 to the Present
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion to the celebrated 1972 exhibition of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum, with an introduction by Weston J. Naef. Inscribed by the editor..... More
FAMILIAR CHINESE FACES: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs
Shanghai: McTavish & Co. Ltd., (circa 1910). First Edition. Wraps. Scarce collection of images depicting daily life in China at the dawn of the 20th century. Illustrated with 24 mounted photographs on 18 leaves, preceded..... More
CHINESE PAPER OFFERINGS
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Small octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
CHINESE OPERA AND PAINTED FACE
Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications, Inc, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 243 p. Preface by Lin Yutang. Colorfully illustrated throughout. First edition in English. An exhaustive study of origin and development of Chinese opera and its..... More
The Author's Typescript of SON OF HEAVEN: A Biography of Li-Shih-Min, Founder of the T'ang Dynasty
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A copy of the first trade edition, together with the author's typescript of the manuscript with the original hand-drawn maps. The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty..... More
THE UNEQUAL TREATIES: China and the Foreigner
London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book traces the history of China so far as it has had contact with England and other European Countries from the eighteenth century. The author also brings..... More
HOW THE FAR EAST WAS LOST: American Policy and the Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 480 p. Foreword by Charles Callan Tansill. Influential revisionist study of the Far Eastern policy pursued during the Roosevelt-Truman administrations. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver..... More
AT THE CHINESE TABLE
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. More
CHINA'S COSMOPOLITAN EMPIRE: The Tang Dynasty
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Tang dynasty is often called China’s 'golden age,' a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to..... More
CHI PO AND THE SORCERER: A Chinese Tale for Children and Philosophers
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Mandel on the half-title. The delightful story of how young Chi Po, aided by the sorcerer Bu Fu..... More
THE LATE POEMS OF MENG CHIAO: Translated by David Hinton
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a...... More
CHINESE ENCOUNTERS
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Arthur Miller’s first visit to China was in the autumn of 1978, immediately before the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relationship. He was the first contemporary..... More
SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA, Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint. The second installment in Science and Civilisation in China, a monumental series initiated and edited by British biochemist and China scholar Joseph Needham (1900-1995). They deal exhaustively with..... More
THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first collection of Chinese poetry undertaken by a group of Chinese scholars." Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. A bit..... More
PACING THE VOID: T'ang Approaches to the Stars
Warren, Connecticut: Floating World Editions, 2005. Trade paperback. "This revised edition incorporates the corrigenda compiled by Professor Schafer." Tall octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
CHINA'S MANAGEMENT OF THE AMERICAN BARBARIANS: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841-1861, with Documents
New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1953. Second Edition. Hardcover. This comprehensive work includes selections from a wide array of Chinese documents dealing with the United States, as well as extensive glossaries listing Chinese..... More
THE TAO OF PAINTING: A Study of the Ritual Disposition of Chinese Painting, with a Translation of the Chieh Yuan Hua Chuan or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1679-1701
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. "...an exploration of certain ideas that have traditionally motivated and governed Chinese painting, and of the technical methods used to express them. Its core is a translation..... More
IMPERIAL CHINA: Photographs 1850-1912
New York: Penwick Publishing, Inc., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 151 p. With a Foreword by Harrison Salisbury. Profusely illustrated. "In these masterpieces of photography, we see the landscape, people, and events that shaped the world's..... More
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