Asia from JimsOldBooks

Tokyo: Sompo Museum of Art, 2021. Japanese text. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this large soft-cover book. Issued by Sompo Museum of Art to accompany an exhibition of the work of the Japanese printmaker Kawase Hasui (or Hasui Kawase in western style) who worked between the early 1900s… Read more about this item

Kumamoto, Japan: Kurodahan Press, 2014. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. An account of the events of March 2011 when meltdowns occured at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima after an earthquake and resulting tsunami. Originally published in Japanese, and… Read more about this item

Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2011. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. A biography of the British explorer George W Heyward (1840-1870) who was murdered in the Darkot Pass in what is now Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Deals mostly with the last few years of his life, as there is little information… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1946. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, with a small piece being missing at bottom end of spine of same. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of his travels in Wartime China between… Read more about this item

London: The Travel Book Club, 1957. Travel Book Club edition. The author's account of her journey with her husband through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and into Pakistan in 1949-50, following in the footsteps of Marco Polo. No publication date shown, but was originally published (as "After You, Marco Polo") in the US in 1955 and in the UK in… Read more about this item

London: Odhams, 1961. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of red boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of her time in Kandahar province, Afghanistan in the late 1950s when she worked on the archaeological dig at Mundigak, a… Read more about this item

Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. Some fading to the spine of unclipped dustwrapper but titles thereon are still clear, a few old water splash-marks to top edge of book, also a smell suggesting that the book has been kept in a shed or similar, though this should fade. Otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with… Read more about this item

Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998. Very slight creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, top edge of pages slightly grubby, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Abridged translations of three autobiographies written by two Tibetans (Phung-tsogs Lung-rtogs, a Buddhist scribe and tutor; and Skar-ma Sun-dhon Paul, an interpreter and later a lecturer in Tibetan… Read more about this item

Singapore: Double-Six Press, 1993. Hardback edition. No dustwrapper (as issued?), a small scratch-mark to back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A history of Gan Eng Seng school in Singapore, founded in 1885 as the Anglo-Chinese Free School for teaching English to Chinese boys but now a co-ed secondary school. 199pp, b&w… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1906. Third and Cheaper Edition, published by Methuen in May 1906. No dustwrapper, wear to edges of boards, spine strip has a four-inch split to the lower left-hand side, top half-inch above the title panel is mostly gone. Top corner of f/ep has been cut out (probably had a previous owner's name on),… Read more about this item

Peking, China: Foreign Languages Press, 1959. 1959 edition. Ex library copy with card pocket on f/ep and ''Withdrawn'' ink stamp on same, some creasing and small tears to the edges of dustwrapper, mark at bottom of dustwrapper spine where a label has been removed, also a library number written. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover… Read more about this item