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Long Beach Ca: Professors Mini Publishiong, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 104 Pp + 3 Pp Appendix. Orange Wrappers. A Few Hand Corrections, Possibly By Author.Light Wear.

1800. Original Painting . No Binding. Very Good. Antique Painting On Paper, Almost Certainly Nineteenth Century Or Earlier, Depicting Blue Skinned Hindi God And His White Skinned Consort Shooting Each Other With Colored Water Using Water Guns (Pichtari: Tubes With Plungers) In The Hindu Indian Festival Of Holi. The Guns Were Made Of Brass And Most Date From The Mughal Period. Well Preserved, Slight Edgewear, 3/4" Faint Waterspot Near Center. Mounted On White Card, Markedon The Verso With Signature And Stamps Of California Artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano (1901-2001) And From His Estate.

Oxford: Clarenson Press, 1923. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 339 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, With 1923 Date On Title Page. Very Near Fine With Just Slight Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks, No Fading Or Stains.

Monaco: Les Documents D'art, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. #806 Of 3300 Copies. Red Cloth Lettered In Black. First Printing. Near Fine, Slight Wear, Aging To Paper, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Wear, Small Tears At Corners With Minute Losses.

Calcutta: The Signet Press / Basanti Binding Works, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xiii, 711 Pp. Brown Cloth, Spine Gilt, Design Stamped In Blind On Front Cover. "First Edition March 1946" Stated On Copyright Page. Spine Gilt Still Brilliant, Hinges Cracked At Endpapers, Front Free Endpaper Removed (Can Be Replaced By A Binder), Quotation From Lin Yu-Tang On Rear Free Endpaper, Some Flecking To Cloth Near Bottom Edges.

Stanford Ca: Stanford University Press, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates. Xii, 477 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Map Endpapers. Light Usage, Very Good. Ownership Signature And Bookplate Of Bruce Bryan, Of The Southwest Museum.

Twelvetrees Pr, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Range Cloth Stamped In Silver And Black, Color Illustrated Endpaper With Glossy White Protective Sheets, As Issued. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. One Of 3000 Copies.

London: Sampson Low, Marston And Company, 1901. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Photographs; Folding Map.. Xii, Map, 476, + 1 P. Ad At Rear. Green Cloth, Gilt, Dark Green Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Worn, Tiny Frays At Tips, Hinge Cracked 3" Between Front Endpapers. Cover Gilt Bright, Spine Gilt Not So Bright With Loss Of Some Gilt In The Spine Illustration.

Howard Timmins, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 167 Pp. Yellow Cloth. First Edition. Fine In Very Good Dust Jacket. Imperial Britain Sets Rules, Enforces Them, And Suppresses The Natives, In Newer Parts Of The Empire.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Photographs, Folding Map. . Xiv, 15-320 Pp. Folding Map At Rear. Turquoise Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Fine, No Wear Or Marks, In Very Near Fine Dj Priced 35 S, With 1" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Flap Fold.

New York: The Bobbs-Merrell Company, 1906. First Americn Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates. (Vi), 449 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Green, Red And Tan. First American Printing. Herbert Strang Was The Pseudonym Of Two English Authors, George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) And Charles James L'estrange (1867-1947). They Specialized In Writing Adventure Stories For Boys, Both Historical And Modern-Day, In The Juvenile Imperialist Genre. Both Men Were Staff Members Of Oxford University Press, Which Published Their Books, Giving Them A Patina Of Social Status And Approval For The Parents Of Their Intended Readership. Their Work Showed A Broad General Debt To That Of Jules Verne;Round The World In Seven Days Was One Of Their Most Popular Books. Ely And L'estrange Have Been Classified As "Popular Writers Of Imperial Fiction" And "Successors Of G. A. Henty". The Pseudonym Was Also Employed For Several Series Of Anthologies, Works "Edited By Herbert Strang" That… Read More

Harcourt Brace , 1997. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 209 Pp. Yellow Boards, Hard Cover. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket.

New York City Ny / Paris: New York Graphic Society / Unesco, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 32 Full Page Color Plates. White Boards, 19" X 13 1/2 ". First Printing; Unesco Copyright Label, Pa Ris, Attached To Copyright Page. Book Near Fine, Very Slight Browning Right Along Upper And Lower Edges. Dust Jacket With Small Edge Teras And Minute Edge Losses.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good +. 32 Full-page Photographs. Xiv, 288 P. Red Cloth Cover, Decorated With A Representation Of An Indian Religious Sculpture, And Lettered In Silver And Black. Finely Illustrated. A Bright, Clean Copy Without Fraying Or Other Faults. Bookstore Blindstamp Of Apothecaries Co. Ltd., Bookksellers, Colombo, On Ffep.

London: B. T. Batsford LTD, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Orange Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 9 " Tall. Black and White Photographs. (Vi), 77 Pages. Orange Cloth With Blue Lettering, Bright, Light Foxing To Prelims (Not To Glossy Photographic Pages), Two Tiny Initials At Corner Of Front Free Endpaper. Dust Jacket With Slight Wear To Corners And Fore Edges And Spine, A Few Minute Losses, Slight Browning.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 100 Illustrations With 50 In Color. 16 Pp + 100 Plates. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Fine Book In Near Fine Dj, Not Price-Clipped, Two Tiny Closed Tears At Top Of Front Panel. In Publisher's Plain And Flimsy Card Slipcase.

The Artichoke Press / Jonathan Clark, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Single Sheet Folded To Make 4 Pages, With Tipped In Color Plate Depicting "One Of The Stacking Rooms... At The Time Of Visiting This Room, There Were 300,000 Cakes Of Opium Stowed Away In The Racks, Valued At 900,000 Pounds." One Of An Unstated Limitation, Probably 150-200, Printed As A Roxburghe-Zamorano Keepsake, Implicitly Memorializing A Major And Disgusting Financial Basis Of British Resources, After The Abolition Of Slavery, Enabling The Continuing And Expensive Expansion Of Its Empire.

Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala & Sons Co., 1935. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 10" Tall. 468 pages, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight but faded, especially at the spine, not affecting gilt lettering.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Photographic Plates. 291 Pp. + 4 Pp Catalog At End. Light Blue Cloth, Gilt. Lightly Used, Gilt Very Bright, No Fraying Or Marks, Hinges Tight. Some Fading To Cloth; Slight Foxing Spots On Edges Of Page Block.

New York: The Century Company, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates From Photographs; Map. Xv 332 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing Stated. Lightly Used, Spine Gilt Weak But Clear; Faint Water Stain Right Along Foredge Of Front Board; No Names Or Marks.