Catalog 61 - China from Joseph Valles - Books

Trenton, NJ : Edward Marshal Boehm, Inc., 1976., 1976. Very Good. Red cloth with gold lettering ; 161 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0918096014; 9780918096012 LCCN: 76-50476 ; OCLC: 2947400 ; LC: TP822; Dewey: 915.1/04/43 ; numerous black and white photographs primarily of Chinese porcelain manufacturing and other industrial photographs… Read more about this item

[Toronto] : Canadian Foundation for the Preservation of Chinese Cultural and Historical Treasures, 1997., 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 151 pp. ; color illustrations ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0968262309; 9780968262306 ; LC: ND1045 ; OCLC: 57339669 ; Text in English, Chinese, and French ; full-color illiustrated, stiff paper wrappers ; guidebook to the exhibition laid-in ;… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1983., 1983. Very Good. ix, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0133808165; 9780133808162 LCCN: 82-20480 ; OCLC: 8907601 ; LC: TK1001; Dewey: 621.312 ; Contents: Principles and characteristics of dc generators -- Principles and characteristics of ac generators -- Engine-driven and gas-turbine generators -- Conversion equipment -- Distribution systems --… Read more about this item

[Hong Kong : London Mission Society Press, c1861] ; ??????? [Shanghai : Shanghai Shangye Yingshuguan, n.d., 1861. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1], 298, 378 pp. ; bound in Chinese fashion, with folded sheets right to left, in a western-style, mid-nineteenth century cloth board cover binding with decorations ; James Legge, the famous Scottish sinologist and missionary of the London Missionary… Read more about this item

Beijing : Sheng huo, du shu, xin zhi san lian shu dian, ?? : ????????????, 1994., 1994. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st ed ; Di 1 ban ?1? ; 26 volumes AS NEW ; A collection of 9 of the 15 novels from the Collected Works edition of Jin Yong's world-famous martial arts fiction, all of which have been… Read more about this item

Beijing : New World Press ; Distributed by China International Book Trading Corporation, 1984., 1984. Good. 1 score ;78 pp ; 26 cm ; ISBN: 0835113949; 9780835113946 ; OCLC: 249694081 ; Compiled by Mai Ding. ; 187x206 ; LC : M1804.C4353 1984 ; Dewey : 642.2E ; pictorial color stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: My flower --… Read more about this item

New York & London : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1937., 1937. Very Good. 7th edition ; Black cloth with pasted paper spine title in black and gold ; endpages illustrated by Sapojnikoff, and cartoons throughout ; 317 pp. ; important psychological study of Chinese habits and consumer practices ; "'No matter what you may be selling, your business… Read more about this item

New York & London : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1937., 1937. Very Good. Illustrated by Sapojnikoff, with cartoons throughout ; 317 pp. ; important psychological study of Chinese habits and consumer practices ; ""No matter what you may be selling, your business in China should be enormous, if the Chinese who should buy your goods would only… Read more about this item

New York : Boni and Liveright ; [Colchester ; London ; Eton : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.], 1925., 1925. Very Good. xxiii, 488 pp. ; 20 cm. ; OCLC: 2299729 ; LC: PL2722.U2 ; brown and black cloth with gold lettering and designs ; decorative endpapers ; One hundred and sixty-four stories from the Liao-chai… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1963., 1963. Fine. Revised, 9th printing of the American edition ; xxiv, 1226 pp. ; black cloth with gold lettering, in sunned green dustjacket ; large, thick volume ; LCCN: 96-189068 ; OCLC: 6214340 ; LC: PL1455; Dewey: 495.1/321 ; FINE/VG

[Gütersloh] : Bertelsmann Lesering, 1961., 1961. Fine. 109 pp. ; 8. ; "Lizenz d. Phaidon Verl., Zürich" ; National Library: 452427673 ; OCLC: 73498636 ; On double leaves, traditional Asian format ; "Buch Nr. 5089" ; black cloth with gold and white decorations, in color pictorial papered slipcase ; small tear to surface of slipcase ; one of… Read more about this item

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c1955, 1974., 1974. Good. 2nd edition, 1974 printing ; xvii, 416 pp. ; 17 cm. ; ISBN: 0804703841; 9780804703840 ; OCLC: 3620455 ; LC: PL1455; Dewey: 495.1321 ; yellow and red textured paper wrappers ; wear to covers ; "This dictionary in its present form is the outgrowth of an earlier attempt… Read more about this item

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000., 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. xvii, 429 pp., [16] pp. of plates : illustrated (some in color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0297645749; 9780297645740 ; OCLC: 59539039 ; LC: QE475.J27; Dewey: 553.876 ; "Taking us from the imperial courts of ancient China to a squalid mine in Myanmar today, this extraordinary book reveals… Read more about this item

Hong Kong : Xin Ya Wenhua Shi Ye You Xian Gong Si =香港 : 新雅 , 1989, ©1984., 1989. Very Good. 2nd printing ; 116, [1] pp. ; 12 cm. ; ISBN: 9620810902 ; text in Chinese (fantizi) ; stiff, color illustrated paper wrappers ; small volume ; humorous anecdotes and jokes--some from classical literature--are guaranteed to make… Read more about this item

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, MCMXXIX (1929), 1929. Fair. [1st edition] ; [5], 1 leaf, 317 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 29-17393 ; OCLC: 831313 ; LC: PZ3.M635; PS3525.I66 ; yellow cloth with black lettering ; spine sunned ; crease on cover ; remains of dustjacket gluedown on front and back eps ; ex-lib, stamps… Read more about this item

New York : A.L. Burt Company, ©1920., 1920. Good. 304, [8] pp. ; 20 cm. ; OCLC: 8572343 ; LC: PR6025.I64s ; "Published by arrangement with Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York" ; "First published in the United States of America, 1921" ; blue cloth with dark blue lettering ; foxing ; spine sunned ; follows the journey… Read more about this item

New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons ; The Knickerbocker Press, 1896, ©1889., 1896. Fair. 3rd edition ; viii, 456 pp. ; 20 cm. ; similar to OCLC: 18708885 ; LC: PS3525.P268 ; red-brown cloth with black and gold lettering and designs ; covers much faded and worn ; shaken ; penciled name on front ep ;… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1928., 1928. Fair. 1st edition ; v, 320 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 28-14321 ; OCLC: 619027 ; LC: PR6037.M425 ; blue cloth with bright, colored, illustrated paste downs on front cover and spine ; wear to spine ; shaken ; front hinge starting ; an interesting attempt to… Read more about this item

New York : Random House, 2003., 2003. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; viii, 276 pp. : map ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0375504966; National Library: 101172134; LCCN: 2002-68102 ; OCLC: 50143626 ; LC: RC176.C2; Dewey: 362.1/969232/0979461 ; black textured cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; "The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer… Read more about this item

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2004., 2004. Fine. [1st edition], 1st printing ; 256 pp. chiefly color illustrations ; 15 cm. ; ISBN: 0811842029 (pbk.) LCCN: 2004-45740 ; OCLC: 54691860 ; LC: NC998.6.C45; Dewey: 741.6/0951/09045 ; color, stiff paper wrappers ; "Collected in these pages, you'll find some of the most colorful (and in some cases the most… Read more about this item