Search Results: Asia from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

London: Profile Books, 1999. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 301 pages. Hardcover with an orange dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy.

Atlanta and New York: J and L Books, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. 91 pages. Hardcover bound in pink cloth. Illustrated with photos. Article about the book and exhibit is taped into the front cover.

North Carolina: N.p., 1952. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. 12mo. 8 pages. Soft cover bound in stapled self-wrappers. Light wear to the binding. Clean within.

San Francisco / Tokyo: Department of the US Army / Dai Nippon Printing Company, Ltd., 1967. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 272 pages. Hardcover in blue cloth with title in gilt on front cover. Red lettering on spine. Clear plastic dust jacket has been placed over book. The foot of the jacket spine is torn. Illustrated endpapers. Text is lightly foxed. Illustrations throughout, with some photos in color.

Illinois and Saskatchewan: The Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 12mo. 196 pages. Softcover in green and white, red wrappers. Binding is foxed, rubbed. Spine is sunned. Some rubbing along edges of spine. Prior owner's name at top of title page. Text is toned. Book is musty but could be aired out.

Calcutta: Asiatic Book Agency, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 184 pages. Hardcover with a grey dust jacket. Light wear to the book and jacket. There is a sticker on the copyright page which has a shadow that transfers onto the title page.

North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 288 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a burgundy and tan pictorial dust jacket. Light to moderate wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Extensively illustrated with historical artwork and photographs. Book is clean and sound.

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Second Edition. . Soft cover. Fair. 4to. 95 pages. Soft cover bound in tan wrappers. The binding is worn and is damped along the spine and at the top of the front cover. A sound copy. Text is toned but generally clean. Complete with the foldout sheet at the rear.

Monaco: Les Documents D'Art. Hardcover. Good. 4to. 104 pages. Limited edition hardcover in red cloth covered boards. Corners bumped and rubbed. Covers show spotting and scuffing. Spine is sunned. Wear/bumping at headcap/foot of spine. Inside front and rear covers are foxed. Text is toned/foxed. Some cracking in the gutter between pages 24 and 25. This is #1137 of 3,300 copies.

(New Delhi: (New Delhi: Roli Books International, 1984)., 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. Sondeep Shankar, Photographer. 12mo. (128) pages. Small paperback bound in dark pictorial wrappers. Prior owner's name dated 1986 on the front flyleaf; otherwise a nice clean copy. Illustrated with glossy photos throughout. Revised edition.

New York: Viking, 1992. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Toby Sinclair (Photographer). 8vo. 197 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a white and tan dust jacket. Moderate rubbing and wear to the jacket. Prior owner's notation on the front flyleaf, and prior owner's signature on the half title. Some spotting or stains to the endpapers. Text is a little toned but generally clean.

New York: W. J. Watt & Company / Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. George W. Gage (Frontispiece). 12mo. 289 pages. Hardcover bound in yellow cloth with titles in black. Lacks dust jacket. The binding shows some rubbing and some soiling from handling. The binding is a little cocked, and there is a crease and a soiled spot on the spine. Inner hinges secure. Early owner's 1922 on the front flyleaf. There are some heavy brown stains in the bottom margins of pages 55-60, heaviest on pages 57-58, that remains in the margin and does not affect the text. Has a black and white frontis but is otherwise not an illustrated work. A curious publication. The title page gives the publisher as "W. J. Watt & Company" of New York, but the foot of the spine notes "Grosset & Dunlap." A work of fiction of an American in China. Quite scarce. No other copies online. No auction records.

N.p.: N.p.. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. Copperplate engraved map. A single sheet with two vertical folds, left and right of center. Nicely hand-colored. A sound copy. Closely trimmed at the top and the bottom with wide margins on the right and left sides. Undated; circa 1720s-1730s. An early printing with Japan spelled as "Iapan.

London: Adam & Charles Black / A & C Black, 1909. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ella Du Cane. Small quarto. 150, (6) pages. Hardcover bound in white decorative cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt and in blind. The binding shows some rubbing and wear, and the spine is tanned. Cloth is foxed. Damping on endpapers and flyeaves as well as bottom of some pages. Endpapers tanned. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Front gutter is cracked. Collates complete with all of the beautiful color plates.

London: Adam & Charles Black / A & C Black, 1907. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ella Du Cane. Small quarto. 150, (6) pages. Hardcover bound in white decorative cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt and in blind. The binding shows some rubbing and wear, and the spine is tanned. Spine is a bit faded and rubbed about the edges. Secure inner hinges. Endpapers tanned; the front pastedown has a private bookplate of Barbara Child. The text is a little toned but is generally clean. Collates complete with all of the beautiful color plates.

New York: Robert Carter, 1840. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. vii, 384, 7 pages. Hardcover bound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper-covered boards. The binding is worn, and the spine is completely gone. Boards are holding by the cords. The text block has been damped along the fore edge throughout. Indexed at the front. Contains a couple of illustrations. The last 7 pages are an "Abstract of the Third Annual Report of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Presented to the General Assembly in May, 1840." A couple of issues towards the rear seem to focus on India and Hinduism.

Calcutta: Minerva Associates, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 193 pages. Hardcover with a mauve dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket, but the jacket has some wrinkles in the surface laminate. A sound copy with secure inner hinges.

Independence, Missouri: The Authors, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 385 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in blue wrappers. A nice, clean copy.

Boston: Weatherhill, 2004. Third Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 1135 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in black quarter cloth with black and white glossy boards. Light to moderate wear to the binding. There are some scrapes or thin cuts on the front cover which are not evident at first. The front pastedown and flyleaf have numerous messages of well-wishes and thanks, presumably from someone's students. A sound copy with clean text. Illustrated throughout.

North Carolina: Privately Published, 1991. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 399 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth with titles in gilt. Light wear to the binding; the corners are a little bumped. A sound copy with clean text. Contains several illustrations. Appears to have been published without a title page. Inscribed by Virginia Jackson on the title page, "To Martha Stewart, a very special friend- with love, Virginia Jackson." No copyright date, but 1991 is stamped in gilt on the spine along with the title. Henry Tull Jackson (1909-1985) was born in North Carolina. In WWII he was in North Africa, China, Burma, and India. The bulk of the entries are personal letters to his wife. He died in High Point, North Carolina.