Search Results: Titles starting with S from Oriental Bookstore

1stedn; 8vo stamped leather bds, gilt stamped deco to fntcvr, MISSING spine strip and back cover, all edges gilt, ow tight binding, VG/ndj: From the Introductory: "Our beloved nation was rent apart, North against South. Every facet of life was affected, and the churches of the Old Order of Baptists felt the division keenly." A stalwart proponent of the Old School or Primitive Baptist theology and present at the denomination's September 1832 schism from the Missionary or New School Baptist church at the Black Rock Meeting House (aka the Black Rock Convention or Black Rock Address) in Baltimore County, Maryland, Elder Gilbert Beebe founded the religious newspaper "Signs of the Times" in the fall of 1832 at New Vernon, New York. At least five vols published.

1stednthus; tall8vo Black blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, Yellow end papers with gold designs on the edges and center. French Folded pages. Tight sound and unmarked. Slipcase not included. Slight rubbing and fading to spine ends Ow VG/ndj: 51pp. decorated and hand-illuminated' (title page) by Angelo throughout. This limited edition was not numbered but it was supposedly printed only once. color frontispiece+4 full-page color illuminated illustrations, 51 French fold pages that have yellow deco surrounding each page of text with a design of Persian arabesque printed in light red, Text of the one-act Biblical drama in the English rendering of Douglas, with an introduction by Holbrook Jackson; Salomé was originally published in French in 1893, and was translated into English the following year by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Beardsley; however, some of the artist's designs were withheld or censored, and his illustrations were not published in full until the edition of 1907.… Read More

8vo ochre cloth with gilt lettering, VG/ndj: 267pp, recounts the hapless and tragic bank robbery in Cisco, Texas in 1927 which took the lives of seven people. scarce 1stedn

1stedn; 8vo black cloth, gilt spine titles; VG/ndj: [8]+245pp; story of the author's adventures in old state of Mangshih on the China-Burma border in the summer of 1940, just before everything changed forever; "Happy and humorous memories of the author's years 1940-42, as secretary to the Sawbwa of the Shan State of Mangshih on the border with Yunnan, and of the Sawbwa's modernization plans." Ethnic Chinese ruler of Shan state by grad of Yunnan Univ.

8vo illuswraps, unread Very Good. VG: 48pp, price list with photos of items sold. Each item has provenance and references to publications.

Monographs of the Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong; Contents: Pages 8-35: Essay and notes on Jews in China. This is followed by a bibliography of Sino-Judaic studies: pages 36-48: books in western languages; pages 49-73: articles in western languages; pages 74-75: books in Chinese; pages 76-79: articles in Chinese. Pages 82-99 are devoted to the memoire of Lord Lawrence Kadoorie. 

1stedn thus, Reprinted from the Quarterly of Journal of the Taiwan Museum, June 1963; 4to brown cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. Covers handled and lightly dustsoiled, extremities lightly bumped, front hinge cracked. [NOT A pamphlet, Ow VG/ndj:80pp., color photos. Poisonous Snakes of Vietnam by Herndon G. Dowling (1966), is laid in]

2ndedn stated; 8vo illuswraps; x+130pp, many illus, indexes, incl Arabic, scientific and common names. By prof at Cairo Univ