Search Results: Catalog 61 - China from Joseph Valles - Books

San Francisco : China Books & Periodicals, 1989., 1989. Fine. xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0835121461; 9780835121460 ; LCCN: 89-60226 ;OCLC: 19783510 ; tan cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; fictionalized account of the author's youth in Beijing under the Cultural Revolution, written in English ; dustjacket has a few nicks, else FINE/VG

上海 ：世界书局 , [Shanghai : Shi jie shu ju (World Publishing House)], Feb / 59 (1959), 1959. Good. [2], 524, 1005, [14] pp. : tables ; 18 cm. ; orange cloth with gold characters, in green and white dustjacket ; frayed dustjacket ; front flyleaf out ; name on front ep ; foxing ; shaken ; thick volume ; listing of parts of speech at back in tables plus a short chapter on composition ; G/FAIR [This listing contains text in Chinese fonts]

[New York] : A William Morrow, Sweet Springs Press Book, 1986., 1986. Good. Peach cloth with silver lettering, no dustjacket ; small spot on lower front cover ; grease pencil mark on front ep ; color plates, several black & white photos, map ; G

New York : Routledge, 1999., 1999. Very Good. x, 306 p. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0415923328 ; LCCN: 99-16197 ; OCLC: 41467819 ; LC: DS799.63.C6 ; Dewey: 327.5105124/9/09049 ; Contents: Economic interdependence and political divergence: a background analysis of the Taiwan Strait crisis / Suisheng Zhao - - The origins of conflict across the Taiwan Strait: the problem of differences in perceptions / John F. Copper -- Changing leadership consensus: the domestic context of war games / You Ji -- Changing leadership perceptions: the adoption of a coercive strategy / Suisheng Zhao -- The Taiwan Strait crisis: causes, scenarios, and solutions / Qimao Chen -- The political economy of Taiwan's mainland policy / Yun-han Chu -- The cross-strait talks of 1993, the rest of the story: the irresolvable conflict in cross-strait relations / Shelley Rigger -- The prospects of a larger war: Chinese nationalism and the Taiwan Strait conflict / Edward Friedman -- The Taiwan Strait crisis of 1996: implications for U.S. security… Read More

New York : Henry Schuman, 1953., 1953. Fair. Red cloth with black lettering ; inscription on front ep ; front signature badly shaken at tp ; Contents : In search of origins [Mirrors of life ; The individual reality ; The beginnings of contrast ; Where Europe ends and America begins] -- Men, gods and things [Marriage and class ; Success and the hero ; Two attitudes toward government ; The ills of government ; Two kinds of religion ; The bases of religious faith ; Two approaches to economic life ; Industrial failure and economic strife] - - Dilemma [American problems ; Chinese weaknesses ; Chinese communism ; World unrest, communism and America] ; foxing ; FAIR

New York : Random House, 2003., 2003. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; viii, 276 pp. : map ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0375504966; National Library: 101172134; LCCN: 2002-68102 ; OCLC: 50143626 ; LC: RC176.C2; Dewey: 362.1/969232/0979461 ; black textured cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; "The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in 1900. Though the ship passed inspection, some of her stowaways--infected rats--escaped detection and made their way into the city's sewer system. Two months later, the first human case of bubonic plague surfaced in Chinatown."--dustjacket ; FINE/FINE

Cleveland, New York : World Publishing Company, c1942., 1942. Fair. 385 pp. ; illus. ; black cloth with blind stamp and red lettering ; first signature creased ; student's notes on a few pages ; store label remains on ep, major poets featured: Ch'en Lin, Chia Yi, Ch'u Kuang-hsi, Ch'u Red and gray cloth ; owner's stamp (contemporary) on ep ; slight foxing, possible excise of front ep ; water mark on spine; FAIR

New York ; Chichester ; Brisbane ; Toronto ; Singapore : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; A Robert L. Bernstein Book, 1994., 1994. Very Good. 3rd printing ; photographic paper wrappers ; viii, 290 pp. ; photographs ; VG

Trenton, NJ : Edward Marshal Boehm, Inc., 1976., 1976. Very Good. Red cloth with gold lettering ; 161 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0918096014; 9780918096012 LCCN: 76-50476 ; OCLC: 2947400 ; LC: TP822; Dewey: 915.1/04/43 ; numerous black and white photographs primarily of Chinese porcelain manufacturing and other industrial photographs ; obvious Cultural Revolution period clothing and events ; some color plates ; a letter to John Connel from Helen Boehm, signed, laid in ; very slight soiling to cover, else VG

台北市：源流出版公司 [Taibei Shi : Yuan Liu chu ban gong si], 2004., 2004. Very Good. 255 pp. : illustrated with more than 100 color photographs ; 27 cm. ; Chinese text with English titles ; ISBN: 9573253534 ; OCLC: 58593215 ; colorful, stiff paper wrappers ; Chinese-British bibliophile Zhong Fang-Ling discovers a Book Paradise in th e many and varied bookshops and book people in the United States, and leads the reader on a tour of book auctions, makers of library goods, book exhibitions and bookstores, new and antiquarian, electronic and ancient, as well as music shops ; featured are John Warnock of Octavo, shops The Magazine, Serendipity, Vintage Magazine Company, Gallagher Paper Collectibles, Crinkley Bottom Books, Caedmon Records, Village Music, Allan Milkerit, Facsimile Dust Jackets, International Edible Book Festival , Beatrice Coron, Helen Highwater, Melisa Jay Craig, David Mendez, Susan Hanes, Putnam Rolling Ladder Company, The Library of Congress, A. Edward Newton, Samuel Johnson,… Read More

New York : Garden City Publishing, Inc., 1942., 1942. Very Good. Pale orange cloth with black lettering and decorations, in colorful, dramatic photographic dustjacket ; dustjacket clipped ; "This book is printed from the plates of the original edition" ; maps on endpapers ; signature cut from front ep ; foxing ; a pin-point bump on spine ; VG/VG

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, MCMXXIX (1929), 1929. Fair. [1st edition] ; [5], 1 leaf, 317 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 29-17393 ; OCLC: 831313 ; LC: PZ3.M635; PS3525.I66 ; yellow cloth with black lettering ; spine sunned ; crease on cover ; remains of dustjacket gluedown on front and back eps ; ex-lib, stamps ; " Not every white and yellow marriage is a failure. The wedlock of Wung Pi and Caroline Dempster...had been greatly happy and greatly successful. A Chinese man and an English girl had shown their small world an ideal marriage. But it had had its th orn...."--Chapter 1 ; tear to back ep ; FAIR

New York : Pantheon Books, 1975, ©1974., 1975. Very Good. 1st American edition ; 352 pp. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0394486889 ; LCCN: 73-18731 ; OCLC: 841337 ; LC: DS778.M3 ; Dewey: 335.43/4 ; "This collection contains speeches never before translated or only available in small sections...[and] brings together in one book some of Mao's most important speeches...in addition, many of Mao's most important discussions during the Cultural Revolution and the controversies surrounding Lin Biao's fall are made available."--jacket ; wine-red cloth with gold lettering in photographic color dustjacket ; scratch to front cover ; edge wear to dustjacket ; VG/VG

Grand Rapids, MI : The Fideler Company, 1962., 1962. Fine. 192 pp. ; 145 Richtone photos in black and white ; an appealing cover painting in full color by Jack A. Roderick ; unusual photos not found elsewhere document China's initial years under communism, often showing less-than-ideal conditions ; also fou nd are images of propaganda whose texts are highly critical of the United States -- and these were included here in a US children's textbook! ; the English texts of the photos are themselves often examples of period American propaganda against the C hinese communists ; several maps, photos of important individuals, and scenes of domestic activity ; a typewritten letter from the publisher, Raymond E. Fideler (and possibly signed by him) dated April 20, 1962 is laid-in ; " 'China' is one of the most urgently need textbooks we have published....to enable students to study China by the 'unit or problem solving method' " ; a pink prospectus of other titles in also laid-in ; very slight edge wear to… Read More

New York, Pantheon Books, 1967., 1967. Very Good. [1st American edition] ; 237 pp. ; illustrated ; map. ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 67-16950 ; OCLC: 175204 ; LC: DS740.4 ; Dewey: 301.29/51 ; green cloth with gold lettering in red, black and white pictorial dustjacket ; slight wear to dustjacket and spine ; previous owner's name on front ep ; dustjacket price-clipped ; VG/VG

New York : The New Press, c1995., 1995. Fine. x, 210 pp. ; black cloth in colorful photo pictorial dust jacket ; a study of the growing effect of westernization on Chinese culture ; FINE/FINE

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001. Fine. iv, 281 pp. ; ISSN: 1069-5834 ; OCLC: 28108670 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: "Like Kissing through a Handkerchief" : Traduttore Traditore (a review of Lydia Liu, editor, Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circula tions) / Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel -- Göran Malmqvist, Bernhard Karlgren: Ett Forskarporträtt / Reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Second-Language Studies and College-level Chinese Language Textbooks in the U.S. / By Cynthia Y. Ning ; several reviews of new books ; FINE

New York : Times Books ; Random House, c1994, 1994. Very Good. 501 pp. ; 4th printing ; black and red blind stamped cloth ; A Chinese-American journalist confronts the Chinese at the beginning of their economic takeoff. ; some marks on a few pages, else VG in a FINE dj.

New York : Random House, 1972., 1972. Very Good. Black cloth ; 328 pp. ; contains texts of the major propaganda plays of the Cultural Revolution ; includes stills from the productions ; FINE in VG photographic dust jacket of dramatic color still from The White Haired Girl. ; VG

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979., 1979. Very Good. 252 pp. ; ISBN: 0374122083 ; 9780374122089 LCCN: 79-13128 ; OCLC: 4933348 ; dark blue embossed cloth with white lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; remainder mark on bottom of textblock ; 11st edition, 1st printing ; dustjacket has a few tears ; numerous photographs, some in color ; VG/FAIR