Search Results: Authors starting with W from Asia Bookroom

Lahore.: Government Printing.. Revised Edition.. 1935.. Four folding colour maps, xi + 311 pages 26.5 x 18 cms; original papered boards (spotted and a trifle scuffed), linen backstrip with paper title label (worn); foredges and endpapers spotted, a few leaves toned, but on the whole in very good condition, the maps particularly bright and clean. A remarkable association copy: the author Frederick Blyth Wace's copy with his inked initials to the front free endpaper, and his humorous (unpublished?) foreword tipped in opposite the preface, together with a dedication leaf both in Wace's hand and his business card loose within. As a further dedication makes clear, this copy was given by Wace's son (a couple of his loose notes on scrap paper are included), the eminent botanist Nigel Morritt Wace (1929-2005), late head of the Australian National University's department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in 2003 to his fellow academic and marsupial biologist Dr. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. Both Wace and Biscoe were… Read More

Leiden.: KITLV.. 1994.. 219pp, index, oblong quarto. Inscription front free endpaper, some light barely visible creasing dustjacket. Very good. .

Hakata.: Miho Shobo. Circa1947.. Complete set of 3 colour woodblock postcards, 9.1 x 13.2 cm, in original woodblock printed washi folder 23.5 x 12.4 cm, captions in English and Japanese. Very good. These three colour woodblock postcards capture fascinating scenes of Japan during the occupation period. They are packaged in a woodblock printed paper case. Over 400,000 American troops arrived in Japan soon after the Japanese surrender in order to control the process of democratisation. The sceneries which are depicted on the postcards give a contemporary feel of Japan during the occupation. 'A Snowy Sight at Hibiya Junction in Tokyo' shows a busy intersection in Tokyo where both an American GI and a Japanese policeman are controlling the traffic at the same time, while Japanese and American pedestrians cross the street. 'Sanjo Bridge in Kyoto' shows three American soldiers on leave at the famous Sanjo Bridge, glancing at two Japanese maiko in kimono while a young Japanese couple is having a date.… Read More

New York.: Dover Publications.. 1972.. Black and white illustrations, l + 598pp, chronological table, bibliography, index, edges and endpapers foxed, paperback cover spine little creased with small pen mark upper cover, a sound copy. .

Sydney.: Australia Tibet Council.. 2003.. Black and white photographic illustrations, 13pp, quarto, a very good paperback copy. .

Singapore.: Singapore University Press.. 2009.. Maps, xi + 508 pages, colour photographic illustrations, index, bibliography, paperback. "The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history - too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long been seen as the origin of the early modern era in Southeast Asia, but the present collection challenges this view, suggesting that intense and lasting political and economic changes were already well underway by 1500. The argument rests on developments such as the introduction of firearms, more intensive rice agriculture, Thai and Viet ceramic exports, Korean and Ryukyu contacts with Southeast Asia, the demise of Champa, the climax of Viet and northern Tai statecraft, the birth of the Malayo-Muslim kingship in Melaka and the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilization on the island's north coast.… Read More

Bloomington.: Indiana University Press.. 2004.. Black and white photographic and pictorial illustrations, tables, play scripts, xiii + 242pp, appendices, glossary, notes, references, index, paperback copy in very good condition. "Dhola is an oral epic performed primarily by lower-caste, usually illiterate, men in the Braj region of northern India. The story of Raja Nal, "a king who does not know he is a king," this vast epic portrays a world of complex social relationships involving changing and mistaken identities, goddesses, powerful women, magicians, and humans of many different castes. In this comprehensive study and first extended English translation based on multiple oral versions, Susan Snow Wadley argues that the story explores the nature of humanity while also challenging commonplace assumptions about Hinduism, gender, and caste. She examines the relationship between oral and written texts and the influence of individual performance styles alongside a lyrical translation of the work."… Read More

Tokyo.: Daiichi Hoki.. 1968-1970.. 2 Volumes. Vol 1: 558pp. Vol 2: 587pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, endpapers and edges foxed, card slipcases worn and marked. Text in Japanese only. .

Berkeley.: University of California Press.. 1984.. Black and white illustrations, 500pp, index, bibliography, good in slightly torn and soiled dustjacket protected with acid free, fully recyclable polypropylene covering. Good copy. This study discusses the low rate of delinquency in Japan and the ways in which the Japanese intervene to prevent juvenille delinquency. The authors have compiled case history material for fifty families. .

Pennsylvannia: Pennsylvania State University Press.. 1994.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, contents, list of illustrations, treatment of key terms in a conglomerate language, glossary of common Anglicized terms, bibliography, index, xxxiv + 304pp., a very good copy in a dustjacket. "In the 'Raja's Magic Clothes' Waghorne places before our eyes British imperialism and a small South india kingdom in the actual settings in which they perform their interplay - not only in the Indian world of English courtiers, diplomats and scholars. 'The Raja's Magic Clothes' explores the refashioning of the rituals of kingship in Pudukkottai during the crucial period from 1858 to 1947…………. Since Waghorne was permitted use of the Plaace Records for the first time, 'The Raja's Magic Clothes' includes significant new material for scholars. In addition, the book provides the first full photographic documentation of the old palace at Pudukkottai, the Dakshinamurti temple… Read More

Chambersberg.: Anima Books.. 1985.. Black and white photographic illustrations, vi + 208pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, covers trifle shelf worn, slightly faded spine, a very good paperback copy. .

Poona.: The Yeravda Prison Press.. 1927.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 33pp + 5 plates, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps, annotation and label, vertical crease throughout from folding in half, few red crayon marks in margins, upper corner little bumped, wrappers little browned and worn. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 138 of 1927. .

Poona.: The Yeravda Prison Press.. 1924.. Black and white photographic illustrations and diagrams, 47pp + 8 plates, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and annotations, edges browned, wrappers worn and chipped with some loss on spine. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 118 of 1924. .

London.: Methuen.. Reprint.. 1962.. Tipped-in colour plates, 262pp, bibliography, index, signatures of highly regarded scholars D.G.E. Hall and M.C. Ricklefs front endpapers, lower corner bumped, very good copy in slipcase. .

Yamaguchi.: Yamaguchi City.. 1998.. 101pp, very good hardback copy. A collection of poems by modern Japanese poet Ryoichi Wago. .

Honolulu.: University of Hawai'i Press.. 1993.. Maps, black and white illustrations, ix + 263pp, index, notes, appendices, dustjacket spine trifle sunned, a very good copy. .

Yogyakarta.: Insist Press.. 2000.. xiv + 175pp, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good paperback copy. 19.6 x 12cm. Text in Indonesian. .

Djakarta.: Ikaten Karjawen Museum.. 1971.. 257pp, typescript, leaves evenly browned, original light card covers, head and tail of spine torn with loss. Letter from the secretary of The Australian Indonesian Association of Victoria to Jamie Mackie loosely inserted. The letter asks for Dr Mackie's advice in regard to the association giving funding to the publication. Letter insect damaged along right edge. .

(Paris).. (1844.). Hand coloured engraving heightened with gum arabic, 27.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet), slight toning to the paper and edge wear, but in very good condition. Fine plate of a New Zealand warrior from Souraki (now Coraki), prepared for Auguste Wahlen's great compilation of world costume "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples de Monde.” Illustrations were after those from the great 19th Century voyage artists. .

(Paris).. (1844.). Hand coloured engraving heightened with gum arabic, 27.4 x 18.2 cm (sheet), slight toning to the paper and edge wear, but in very good condition. Fine plate of a hunter from Princess Marianne Strait, New Guinea, prepared for Auguste Wahlen's great compilation of world costume "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples de Monde.” Illustrations were after those from the great 19th Century voyage artists. .