Search Results: Authors starting with F from Asia Bookroom

Tokyo/Yokohama: Nippon Seikokwai Shuppan Kwaisha/ Kelly & Walsh Limited.. 2nd revised edition.. 1897.. xvi + 316pp and 2 page index. Green cloth covered boards slightly discoloured with faded spine, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, firm and clean. 21.5 x 14cm. Translated from the German and revised by the Rev. Arthur B. Hutchinson .

London.: I.B.Tauris.. 1999.. Many stricking black and white photographic plates, 128pp, bibliography, index, hardback with dustjacket. Oblong quarto. This book "documents the period between 1900 and 1950, which saw Kuwait's emergence from a vunerable shaikhdom negotiating a precarious independece amongst neighbouring powers - the British in India and the Gulf, the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia, and the central Arabian chieftaincies of Ha'il and Riyadh - to a nation state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centering on pearling, fishing, boat-building and trade by land and sea, was swept away." Publisher's Description. .

New York.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.. Reprint.. 1998.. ix + 341pp, index, bibliography, notes, spine little sunned, edges and margins little browned, a very good paperback copy. "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy[...]" (Publisher's description). .

London.: The British Museum.. 1970.. With a biographical note by Douglas Barrett. Colour and black and white illustrations, 32pp, covers little rubbed and soiled, small abrasion upper cover, still a good paperback copy. 21.5 x 21.5cm. Written by William Buller Fagg CMG, a British curator and anthropologist .

Cologne.: Konemann.. First English Language Edition.. 1999.. Two volumes, 406 + 407pp, hardback. Beautiful two-volume set in dustjackets and presented in an attractive pictorial slipcase. Profusely illustrated with colour photographic illustrations throughout and maps. Excellent set. 32 x 27.5cm. Chapters on the art of China, Indonesia, Korea, the Champa Kingdoms, the Khmer, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, and Japan as well as textiles, calligraphy and jade. .

Wellington.: Institute of Pacific Studies.. 1985.. xxii + 444pp, appendices, bibliographies, index, an ex-library copy with stamps on edges and endpapers in worn and little chipped dustjacket. Extensive information on governments, business and population of principally South Pacific islands. Includes specific case studies. .

Sydney.: Allen & Unwin.. 1979.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 552pp, index, very good hardback copy. Originating from "East Asia: Tradition and Transformation." .

Lexington.: Uni. Press of Kentucky.. 1995.. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 314pp, bibliography, index, neat chop on titlepage, very good hardback copy in protected dustjacket with a lightly sunned spine. H.B. Morse was a pioneer historian of modern China. On retirement after working in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service for 35 years he devoted himself to scholarship. He is best known for his 3 volume work The International Relations of the Chinese Empire. .

Cambridge.: Harvard University Press.. 1971.. xviii + 331pp, indices, some pencilling, paperback, covers worn, otherwise sound. .

Cambridge.: Harvard University Press.. 1975.. xxxiii + 603pp, indices, a very good hardback copy. .

London.: Deutsch.. 1976.. Black and white illustrations, xviii + 254pp, index, good in price-clipped dustjacket. .

Chicago.: University of Chicago Press.. Reprint.. 1973.. Map, xiii + 438pp, notes, index, edges little foxed, covers little browned and foxed, a good hardback copy. .

Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press.. Reprint.. 1981.. 442pp, notes, glossary, index, front free endpaper clipped, covers little worn and browned, otherwise a good hardback copy. .

Rutland, Vermont.: Charles E. Tuttle.. 1955.. xviii + 331pp, indices, ex-library, little bumped corners, otherwise a good copy. .

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.. 1961.. 608pp, index, name stamped edges, cloth hardcover spine little worn, a good copy otherwise. .

Cambridge.: Harvard University Press.. Seventh Printing.. 1998.. Maps, black and white illustrations, xix + 546pp, paperback, indices, bumped extremities, good paperback copy. A concise comprehensive and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. .

St. Lucia.: University of Queensland Press.. 1965.. Illustrated with full colour plates from Ian Fairweather's paintings, 161pp, inscription front free endpaper, edges lightly foxed, dustjacket torn with loss at spine now protected, good copy. 25 x 23.4cm. A well-known 13th century Chinese novel, translated by Fairweather and illustrated with his own paintings. .

Australia: University of Queensland Press. 2015.. Colour illustrations, 180pp, cloth hardback. "In 1965, UQP first published Ian Fairweather's The Drunken Buddha. His iconic translation of an ancient Chinese novel, illustrated with his paintings, was praised by scholars and readers alike. Fairweather was fascintated by Chinese calligraphy and possessed great knowledge of popular Buddhism; his translation retains the spirit of both the original work and popular Chinese literature in general." (Publisher's description). .

Paris.: Nouvelles Editions Latines.. 1953.. 549pp, index, bibliography, original wrappers worn and marked with some small closed tears and loss at head and tail of spine, edges and pages quite browned, from the library of Professor Anthony Reid, a sound secondhand copy. Text in French. .

France: J'ai lu. 2007.. Map, 347pp, bibliography, a very good paperback copy. Text in French. .