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vi+541+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition. As long as Japan's religious practices remain obscured and misunderstood, it will be impossible to interpret the country's art, history or even industry, argues the author of this work. After all, Milton, Dante and… Read more about this item

xxii+450 pages with map, plates, illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine… Read more about this item

l+321 pages with illustrations, maps, facsimiles (one folding), bibliography and index. Folio (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in half leather with four raised spine bands and red label in gilt lettering over pebbled cloth. Second edition after the first of the same year. Limited to 1000 copies. First l (50) pages, correspond to the study by J. Sanchez Garza, and… Read more about this item

210 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition limited to 1063 copies. In Comanche Bondage the distinguished southwestern historian Carl Coke Rister has written the history of the Dolores enterprise, drawing on Beale's journals and other documents,… Read more about this item

3 Volumes. 412 pages with frontispiece; 446 pages with frontispiece, bibliography, appendices and index; 77 plates (some folding) and 3 folding maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, head end pages gilt, deckled foredges. Arthur Clark American Trail Series V. First edition. Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail… Read more about this item

xvi+810 pages with maps, photographs illustrations, facsimiles, tables, charts and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with red stripe to spine and cover in original jacket. Fourth printing. Edgar P. Snow was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese… Read more about this item

255-279 pages, graph, tables, charts and appendix. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIII, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Financial Expertise, Examinations and the Formulation of Economic Policy in Northern Sung China by Robert M Hartwell; Continuities of Social Mobility in Traditionally and Modern Society in India: Two Case… Read more about this item

21-36 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIII, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. This paper is a preliminary study of Kim Yuka, a seventeenth-century reformer and statesman, and his role in the introduction of the tribute tax reform in the two southern provinces of Ch'ungch'ng and Chlla. It is… Read more about this item

265-286 pages with tables. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXXII, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Woman and the Sacred in Ancient Tamilnad by Georg L Hart, III; Ringisei-Tranditional Values or Organizational Imperatives in the Japanese Upper Civil Service: 1868-1945 pages by Bernard S Silberman; Evolution from Above: National… Read more about this item

387-400 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXII, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: The Social and Political Philosophy of the Shih-chi by Robert B Crawford; Zen Buddhism and Muromachi Art by Ichiro Ishida, translated by Delmer M Brown; Japanese Colonial Development Policy in Taiwan, 185-1906 by Chang Han-Yu… Read more about this item

iv+258 pages with index. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXII, Number 5 complete issue. First edition. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, creased and rubbed, spine heal bumped with tears to edges else very good.

342 pages with index. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXVI, Number 5 complete issue. First edition. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, creased and rubbed, spine heal bumped with tears to edges else very good.

611-622 pages with map and glossary. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXX, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of "Human Lease" in Traditional Tibetan Society by Melvyn C Goldstein; Provincial Independences vs National Rule: A Case Study of Szechwan in… Read more about this item

155-184 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIII, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Some Fundamental Issues in the History of Chinese Painting by Max Loehr; Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsun by T A Hsia; Japanese Writers and the Great East Asia War by Donald… Read more about this item

821-839 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXXI, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: The Development of Philippine Cities Before 1900 by Daniel J Mayo; The Political Life of the Japan Medical Association by William E Steslicke; The Sai Baba Movement: Approaches to the Study of Indian Saints by… Read more about this item

15-22 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXVI, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Private Enterprise and Economic Progress in Thailand by Kliezer B Ayal; The Consecration of a Buddhist Image by Richard Gombrich; The Origin of the Managing Agency System In India by Blair B Kling; The Income… Read more about this item

633-810 pages with index. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXI, Number 5 complete issue. First edition. Condition: Edge wear with tears and chips, corners bumped, creases and rubbed, spine heal bumped else very good.

405-423 pages with charts and tables. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXXII, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Contents: The Presidential Address: A Case for Asian Studies by Robert L Ward; Will and Awe: Illustrations of Thai Villager Dependency upon Officials by Herbert J Rubin; The Circulation of Estates in… Read more about this item

499-513 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXXI, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Formosan Political Movements Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1914-1937 by Edward I-Te Chen; Toward an Analysis of Demographic and Economic Change in Tokugawa japan: A Village Study by Susan B Hanley; The American Remission of the… Read more about this item

305-317 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIV, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Preparation for the Occupation of Japan by Hugh Borton; Japan's Response to the Chinese Resolution of 1911 by Masaru Ikei; A Case of Anomalous Values in Indian Civilization by D A Low; The Politics… Read more about this item