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New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. 12mo, ix, [5], 263 pp plus 10 plates & [6] pp of advertisements. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth.
Binding moderately rubbed, spine slightly cocked, front hinge starting, otherwise Good.
The author spent 11 years in China as a missionary educator As he presciently notes in the preface, "After the war, the attention of the world will more and more shift to China and the Far East The greatest potential market in the world lies there: the greatest need for industrial and economic development is there."

No place: "privately published for use and study by scholars in the fields of anthropology, and the social sciences; by physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists," (1957). First edition. 8vo, 130 pp including numerous, frequently graphic illustrations. Publisher's red paper over boards lettered in black on the upper cover. Bottom corners lightly bruised, occasional minor foxing, previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown, a very good copyThis copy from the library of Simon Rulin Breusch, MD, who was the "major historical source and advisor for the HealthSciences Museum Foundation of the Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society." "It is in this very un-Chinese book about the Chinese that an attempt is made to throw some clear and serious light on the world's oldest, continuous civilization This book is un-Chinese in that its aim is to go quickly to the heart of the subject, and to present the essence of Chinese Erotica." ~Excerpted from the Introduction

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American edition but printed in Great Britain with price in pounds sterling. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), xi & 159 pages, the title page printed in red & black. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in brown on the spine, in pictorial dus jacket.
Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, a good or better example.
The original Chinese edition, "Hsing Shih Heng Yen" [Common Tales to Rouse the World], was published in 1627. The tales include Love in a Junk; Brother or Bride?; The Everlasting Couple; & The Mandarin-Duck Girdle.

Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, Editeur, (1910). First edition, limited to 365 copies, this number 277. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"), 160 pp. plus 14 plates (including 4 mounted color woodblocks), each plate accompanied by guard-sheet with descriptive letter-press. Rebacked preserving original French fold printed & decorated thick paper wraps over plain card covers, with new printed paper spine label, Text in French. Rebacked, spine cocked, covers soiled, toned & foxed, moderate edge wear, offsetting at blanks, light internal toning, previous owner's chop at half-title page, otherwise good or better. The Philosophy of Nature in Far Eastern Art. Illustrated from the originals of the masters of the landscape of the 8th to 17th centuries, with four woodcuts by K. Ehawa and S. Izumi, Nine Heliotypes and one Plate Double in Photogravure.

[Hong Kong: Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.], 1930. Duodecimo (6.75" x 3.75"), 64 pages, illustrated, with folding map tipped to the inside of the rear cover entitled "Cook's Plan of Victoria, Central District, Hong Kong." Original pictorial light card covers, the upper depicting a Chinese junk in harbor. OCLC locates a single copy at Stanford as of 6/3/2023.
Light edge wear, brief soiling, ink annotations at lower cover apparently recording expenses for clothing.
Presumably produced for the American tourist, this uncommon guidebook describes hotels, transportation, night life, places of interest, etc., and, of course, provides numerous advertisements for local businesses.
"This small convenient-to-carry booklet has been compiled for the purpose of acquainting the traveller with the points of interest in above named commodities. We suggest that this guide be kept for reference while in China and then passed on to friends contemplating a visit. Will prove most serviceable." ~Excerpted from the title page.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004. First edition. Folio, 194, [2] pp, with illustrations throughout from photographs. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacketTrace of rubbing at the bottom edges, last leaf with a one-quarter inch tear in the margin, otherwise near fine in very good or better lightly soiled dust jacket with slight edge wear. "Yangtze Remembered is a portrait of the Yangtze River and its people before, during, and after the completion of the Three Corges Dam In June 2003, when the initial phase of the dam was finished, its reservoir inundated more than 300 miles of the Yangtze River Valley An estimated 13 million people are being relocated as the sites of 1500 cities, towns, and villages disappear beneath the dark waters While the old cities are destroyed, huge construction projects are transforming the landscape: dikes, bridges, and apartment towers are springing up Between 2000 and 2003 Linda Butler made eight trips to produce this… Read More