Search Results: China from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

New York: Avenel Books, 1963. Hardcover. xi, 140p., sketch illustrations (of sites in China), an inexpensive reprint of the Crown/Crowell first issue. Hardbound in 8x5.5 inch plastikoid blue boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. This copy has been used, find mild foodstain to fore edge, holograph recipe inscribed (neatly) on front pastedown, asterisk to index (for a variety of soup), a sound if slightly homely volume, with dust jacket bearing a couple of short tears, one of which reinforced verso with clear tape. A fair to good copy. Per dust jacket flap text: "the greatest classical recipes of China, many of them for the first time in English. All five major 'schools' of Chinese cooking are represented." Author Yu Wen Mei is daughter to Yu Lin Chuan, one of Old China's most renowned restauranteurs; she is translator while Adams is "a gourmet's gourmet" who has done some adapting to the American kitchen.

Peiping: Catholic University Press, 1948. Paperback. iv, lviii, 484 pages; paperback, pages toned, minor handling wear, very good. Scheut editions; Series I, Critical and literary studies v. 3. Bibliographic survey of modern Chinese literature, intended for a Catholic audience. Designed to introduce works while warning of the immoral ones; particular concern is given to the influence of leftist writers.

Chicago: RCP Publications, 1980. Pamphlet. 11p. English, 12 p. Spanish, staplebound pamphlet on newsprint, horizontally creased, pages evenly toned, small splash stain on rear wrap else good condition.

Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. 171p., cloth-covered boards, 9.75x13 inches, chiefly illus., corners bumped else very good first edition in an unclipped dust jacket with an old price sticker on the front flap. The Bretschneider Albums.

Los Angeles: the museums, printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, 1944. Hardcover. xi, 63p., plus 87 fullpage b&w plates on coated paperstock, captioned with cross-reference to other exemplars. Presswork on laid-lined alkaline stock, hardbound by local expert Ward Ritchie, and bound in 10x7.5 inch green photo-repro'd boards trimmed white. Casing is slightly edgeworn with a touch of fray to top rim, plates part of textblock is mildly foxed, a sound, clean, unmarked copy.

Rome: International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, 1960. One issue, 8.25x10.5 inches, 63pp., pages toned, cover wrap and first page creased, edge and shelf worn, else good condition. The magazine represented the "International Secretariat" wing of the Fourth International that included Ernest Mandel, Livio Maitan, Michel Pablo, and Pierre Frank. In this issue: "The Amsterdam Trial: Pablo and Santen Soon Free!", "Panafricanism, Trade Unions and Revolutionary Marxism", more.

Rome: International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, 1960. One issue, 8.25x10.5 inches, 76pp., cover wrap has previous owners name inked long top edge, pages toned, else good condition. The magazine represented the "International Secretariat" wing of the Fourth International that included Ernest Mandel, Livio Maitan, Michel Pablo, and Pierre Frank. In this issue: "Sino-Soviet Polemics", "Permanent Revolution in Cuba", more.

Paris: International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, 1964. One issue, 8.25x10.5 inches, 40pp., pages toned, edge and shelf worn, else good condition. The magazine represented the "International Secretariat" wing of the Fourth International that included Ernest Mandel, Livio Maitan, Michel Pablo, and Pierre Frank. In this issue: "Once more on the positions of the Chinese CP and Some Conjectural problems" by Livio Maitan, "The Law of Value in relations to Self-management and Investment in the Economy of he Workers' State" by Ernest Mandel, more.

Beijing: UCCAstore [Ullens Center for Contemporary Art ], n.d.. Postcard. Twenty postcards bound into a small booklet with stiff wraps, reproducing contemporary Chinese works featured in a 2008 book by the same title. Very good.

Cambridge, England: [American Council of Learned Societies]; the authors, 1969. Fourteen 8x13 inch packets of mimeographed or photo reproduced typescripts, representing the papers delivered at the conference by some of the most significant scholars in the field at the time. Packets are held together with large clips, some leaving minor rust marks; some pages crinkled or partly toned. Cover sheet lists all of the papers and their authors, noting that these were drafts not for citation without the author's permission. Based on the cover sheet, this is the complete assemblage. Authors include Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, Wang Gungwu, Hans Frankel, Liu Yat-wing, Ikeda On, Tonami Mamoru, Howard Wechsler, and others. Topics include Tang Buddhism, the Guwen movement, the study of household registers and other administrative documents, and literary issues.

Pasadena, CA: Pacific Asia Museum in association with the Kelton Foundation, 1983. Pamphlet. 47p., wraps, 11x8.5 inches landscape format, profusely illus., sticker shadow on front wrap else very good exhibition catalog.

Tokyo: The Tōhō Gakkai, 1967. Pamphlet. 70-99pp., 7x8.5 inch blank white wraps; in very good condition. Last page, "Xeroxed by Diane Scherer as a gift...1980-81).

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Paperback. 37p. pamphlet, old price penned on cover, interior clean. Includes discussion of acupuncture anesthesia used during brain surgery.

San Mateo: Liberation Publications, 1984. Magazine. 54p., + 40p. pink Classifieds section, news, opinion, photos, ads, reviews, magazine format tabloid newspaper in stapled color pictorial wraps lightly-worn on newsprint. Bush on the Gay Vote 1984. Toby Johnson on Aging. Rod Nelson cycles through China. Plowright photography.

Thornhill, Scotland: Tynron Press, printed in Singapore by Elka Printing Service, 1991. Unpaginated preliminaries, 171p., three line maps, a color photo section, glossy 8x6 inch color wraps, very good. The 'typhoon' being the cultural revolution.

Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1994. Paperback. x, 131p., wrap a tad handled, else in very good condition.

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. Paperback. 79 page paperback, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates; mild shelfwear.

[Canberra]: ANU Press and Verso Books, 2019. Paperback. 404p., paperback, 6x9.25 inches, very good.

New Haven: Yale, 1989. xxiv+378p., frontis, prologue, periods in Chinese history, general administrative levels 1958-1983, note on weights and measures, introduction, notes, references, glossary, index, illustrated with b&w photos, tables and figures, very good first edition in dj.

Shanghai: Si lian chu ban she 四聯出版社, 1954. 63p., slender paperback, evenly toned, very good. Post-revolution biography of the Song dynasty writer Lu You, describing him as a patriotic poet.