China from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American edition but printed in Great Britain with price in pounds sterling. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), xi & 159 pages, the title page printed in red & black. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in brown on the spine, in pictorial dus jacket. Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine,… Read more about this item

[Hong Kong: Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.], 1930. Duodecimo (6.75" x 3.75"), 64 pages, illustrated, with folding map tipped to the inside of the rear cover entitled "Cook's Plan of Victoria, Central District, Hong Kong." Original pictorial light card covers, the upper depicting a Chinese junk in harbor. OCLC locates a single copy at Stanford as of 6/3/2023. Light edge wear, brief soiling,… Read more about this item

No place: "privately published for use and study by scholars in the fields of anthropology, and the social sciences; by physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists," (1957). First edition. 8vo, 130 pp including numerous, frequently graphic illustrations. Publisher's red paper over boards lettered in black on the upper cover. Bottom corners lightly bruised, occasional minor foxing, previous owner's bookplate at front… Read more about this item

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004. First edition. Folio, 194, [2] pp, with illustrations throughout from photographs. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket Trace of rubbing at the bottom edges, last leaf with a one-quarter inch tear in the margin, otherwise near fine in very good or better lightly soiled dust jacket with slight… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, Editeur, (1910). First edition, limited to 365 copies, this number 277. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"), 160 pp. plus 14 plates (including 4 mounted color woodblocks), each plate accompanied by guard-sheet with descriptive letter-press. Rebacked preserving original French fold printed & decorated thick paper wraps over plain card covers, with new printed paper spine label, Text… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. 12mo, ix, [5], 263 pp plus 10 plates & [6] pp of advertisements. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Binding moderately rubbed, spine slightly cocked, front hinge starting, otherwise Good. The author spent 11 years in China as a missionary educator As he presciently notes in the preface, "After the war, the attention of the world… Read more about this item