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Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publisheing Co., 1988. Book. Illus. by maps, drawings and photos. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original tan cloth that looks like new. No prior owner marks, no scars or browning. Bringing to vivid life the society living along this Chinese famed river. Dust jacket is clean with no edge wear and is NOT price clipped. An excellent copy. .

New York City: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Book. Illus. by 3 maps. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy, subtitled "An Anthropology of War and Mediation. No prior owner marks, and very clean and tight inside and out. An excellent meditation on Arab culture. The author is professor of anthropology at Harvard University and director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies..

Yokohama, and London: Kelly & Co. and Trubner & Co., 1880. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original green cloth, with bright gilt letters on front and spine in the same style as the variant yellow binding. Minimal edge wear. Professionally rebacked, very solid hinges with new sendpapers. Very clean and tight inside, with no foxing or browning or prior owner marks. Printed at the Japan Gazette office in Yokohama. Volume one purlisbed in 1880; volume two in 1881. The author was a Scottish publisher, journalist and author, most of his career in Japan and China. He claims the distinction of founding the first newspaper in Japanese language, which advocated political reforms. Not surprisingly, the authorities pushed him out of the newspaper business and he settled in Shanghai. He returned to Yokohama in 1880, the year of his death. RARE, only two other copies on internet, both in Tokyo, at this writing. A few underlinings on… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cather, unhappy with her publisher Houghton Mifflin, switched to Knopf with this book , her second short story collection. Original green cloth with titles in dark green on the front and the spine. Inside, very clean and tight, with no browning or prior owner's marks. It has an original invoice from a book dealer noting this first edition as scarce. , .

Hong: South China Press, 1981. Book. Illus. by Color Photos from the Southwest Corner of Yunnan Province in China. Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. With emphasis on the Dai ethnic group. Sixty pages of photos, and a few pages in English and in Chinese to explain the subject. Photo captions in Chinese and English..