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New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "Author was the last of a procession of uniformed rabbinical U.S. Army chaplains to serve in Japan. He came to wonder how the hundred or so Jewish families in the Tokyo area came to live in this remote corner of the… Read more about this item

London: James Clarke & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1918. Third Edition. Hardcover. "Isabel 'Ida' Deane Mitchell (1879 – 1917) was an Irish Presbyterian medical missionary in China. She set sail for China in the autumn of 1905 to take up a post as missionary for the Women's Association of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian… Read more about this item

Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc.. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1966. First Asian Edition. Hardcover. "The first complete history in a Western language of a custom which seems utterly barbarous to the West, but which persisted for a thousand years in China." - dust jacket. "A history of probably the most singular way in which women… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0827601204 . Signed and inscribed by author upon verso of half-title. "Tells the amazing story of those almost forgotten bands of Jews who wandered into China many centuries ago and with the passage of time blended physically and psychologically into the… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Good. 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Isabella Bird (1831-1904) describes, in the form of letters to her sister, her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878. Recounts how she and and an interpreter visited places that few, if any, Westerners had seen before. Records in great detail her responses to… Read more about this item

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0824827643 . "From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colorful posters and black-and-white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly… Read more about this item

London: The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Shows how "the myths of China and Japan... throw light on the origin and growth of civilization and the widespread dissemination of complex ideas associated with certain modes of life." - Preface. xvi,404 pages. Index. Thirty-three plates… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fair with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. An American woman correspondent describes her experience during the fall of Hong Kong and her subsequent imprisonment in a Japanese prison camp. "What happened to me in Hong Kong is important only as it reflects the type of enemy we face, what… Read more about this item

Japan: University of Tokyo Press. Good. 1992. Reprint. Paperback. 0860083209 . The Kojiki, the earliest source book in Japanese literature and history, was completed in 712 A.D. under the auspices of the imperial court. It is the oldest extant book in Japanese and, as its title (literally, 'Record of Ancient Things') suggests, an account of a… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "Belgian Father Raymond de Jaegher first went to China as a missionary in 1930, and from that time until his perilous escape from the country in 1949 he watched the insidious but systematic spread of Communist domination in the Far… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. "As I am quitting Japan a communication arrives from the conductors of 'Scribner's Magazine,' intimating their desire to reprint the articles entitled 'Japonica' in book form and inviting me to prefix a few words by way of introduction. The invitation is welcome because it enables me… Read more about this item

USA: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Good. 1939. First Edition. Unknown_Binding. Features: The Emperor of Japan; The Social Security "Reserve" Swindle; Literary Conference; Before Hitler Crosses the Atlantic; The Silver Virgin - short story; The Wisconsin Brothers - a study in partial eclipse; Evelyn the Truck Driver; Labor's Two Houses; Black Money - How Cash is Smuggled… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company. Good. 1942. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Wasps of War - How Europe's 'soldiers of the night' wage guerrilla warfare; What's Wrong With Revolution? - After all, we revolted ourselves some time ago; Flit-gun Jake - Muscle man Jake Weber massages champions to victory; The Older the gag, The Louder the… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. "In 1862, at the age of twenty-seven, Anna H. Leonowens became the governess of king Mongkut's children. In those days Siam was a little known, exotic, primitive country. The City of Veiled Women, - a city within a… Read more about this item

USA: Self-Published. Good. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. "In this book I will review several Japanese books written on this subject and then review some of the books written by Jewish scholars." - page 9. "Some scholars predict that, with the advancement of DNA technology, a final verdict on this subject may be handed down before long.… Read more about this item

Occupied Japan: Japan Travel Bureau. Good. 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. "A collection of ordinary Japanese recipes. In the past, so many foreigners have eaten and enjoyed sukiyaki and tempura, but that is about all." - Preface. Possibly a reprint of a 1930s edition. 162 pages. Index. Occasional color and black and white photos.… Read more about this item

Burnaby, B.C.: Burnaby Art Gallery. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 1927364310 . Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia, from August 31 to November 3, 2018. Text in English and French. Only 300 copies printed. "Canadian master printmaker Anna Wong (1930-2013) was born… Read more about this item

Canada: Trafford Publishing. Very Good. 2009. First Edition. Paperback. 1426915012 . Signed, without inscription, by author upon half-title page. Muhammad "Max" Zahar [1936-2021] "was born in Ludhiana in the Indian Province of Punjab. As a boy he witnessed firsthand what is described as 'the greatest loss of civilian life in human history in the absence… Read more about this item

Singapore: Prentice Hall. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0130208035 . Signed and inscribed upon title page by Lee Kuan Yew to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, dated October 1998. "The first volume of the memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew [1923-2015], the man who planted this island state firmly on the map of the world.… Read more about this item

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.. Fair. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0824090578 . pp. xii, [1-2], 3-88. Author index. Lists 443 items. Chapters include: Survey of Histories of the Modern Period; From the Ancient Era to the Restoration of 1868; From the Creation of a Modern Army to the China Incident; The Pacific War (1)… Read more about this item