Search Results: Titles starting with I from Asia Bookroom

Alabama.: University of Alabama.. 1974.. Black and white photographic illustrations, a few small line drawings, appendices, index, xiv + 336pp. Typescript. A previous owner's name and chop on front free endpaper. Sticker mark on cover, but a good clean hardback copy. 24 x 16cm. .

London.: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.. 2013.. Colour photographic plates, 276pp, glossary. Some occasional notes written in pencil, a very good copy. .

New York.: Dutton.. 1965.. Translated from the German. Colour and black and white plates and maps, 256pp, a little mild foxing edges and first and last leaves, a good hardback copy in slightly faded and worn dustjacket. An Austrian adventurer's experiences mountain climbing in Dutch New Guinea .

Australia.: Wild Dingo Press.. 2012.. 370 pages, glossary, paperback, light foxing first leaves and upper edge, a good copy. In a damp, soundless basement in the slums of Iran, crouching in the dark, a young boy frantically carves a Star of David onto the rough brick wall with a rusted nail clutched tightly in his trembling hand. With a palm to his heart, he takes an oath on the sacred symbol, while above him the first horrifying cries of the Islamic Revolution shake the streets. Kooshyar Karimi is a father, a doctor, a writer, and translator. In 1998, he is kidnapped from the streets, blindfolded, and tortured. When he is eventually released, it is only as a spy for the Islamic Secret Service. This is the story of his survival. .

London.: George Allen & Unwin.. 1953.. Black and white illustrations, 175pp, index, dustjacket fading and damaged with loss, edges and preliminary leaves little foxed, neat paper repairs to reverse of dustjacket, still a sound hardback copy. China during the Second World War and immediately after. The author served in the Friends Ambulance Unit's China Convoy from the end of 1941 until the final months of 1944. He returned to China in November 1945 working as a Medical Supply Officer with UNRRA Mission until mid 1947. .

New York.: Columbia University Press.. 2007.. Translated by Julia Lovell. Xxii + 228pp, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. .

South Brunswick.: AS Barnes.. 1966.. Illustrated with black and white woodblock style illustrations in the text, 221pp, remainder mark lower edge, slight wear on extremities, embossed stamp of a prior owner front free endpaper. Good hardback copy in dustjacket. The author, a Quaker and a Professor of Chemistry, first went to China in 1924. He stayed throughout the war, when he and his family were interned by the Japanese, and remained teaching in China when the Communists took over. .

New York.: Public Affairs.. 2005.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 187pp, index, spine a little sunned, good hardback copy. .

Canberra.: Australian National University Press.. 1973.. Vol I of The Majesty of Colour. Maps, black and white illustrations, xxx + 370pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Thurston was Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific at the time of his death in 1897. .

United States.: International Japanese Print Auctioneers.. 1993.. Black and white reproductions, 25pp, text in English. Some shelfwear, still a good copy, quarto. Accompanying catalogue to auction taking place on January 30, 1993 in New York. Descriptions of prints include artist, condition, price. .

United States.: International Japanese Print Auctioneers.. 1992.. Black and white reproductions, 32pp, text in English. Some shelfwear, still a good copy, quarto. Accompanying catalogue to auction taking place on September 26, 1992 in New York. Descriptions of prints include artist, condition, price. .

Calcutta.: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.. 1948.. 4pp (109-112), from Professor A.L. Basham's library, title and author in his hand upper cover, tape bound spine. .

Arlington Heights.: AHM Publishing.. (c.1978).. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 198pp, neat signature of a prior owner half title, a little wear paperback covers. Good copy. .

Lahore.: Muhammad Ashraf.. c.1963.. 99pp, lightly foxed and browned endpapers and fore edges, some wear and loss dustjacket, paper covered boards shelf worn and unevenly browned, 12mo, internally clean. A brief biography of Ibn Al 'Arabi, the Islamic philosopher from Spain. .

Paris.: Gihaut frères éditeurs.. 1833.. Hand-coloured lithograph highlighted with gum arabic, 18.7 x 27.8 cm (image), margins a trifle toned, in very good condition. Lithograph prepared as plate 2 for "Croquis d' après nature faits pendant trois ans de sejour en Grèce et dans le Levant, Paris, Gihaut, 1833-4" by Théodore Le Blanc (1800? - 1837). Most of the plates depicted the Greek War of Independence (then raging) and provided an astonished public with images other than the more idealized pictorials of Greece and the Levant. The French painter and army engineer officer Théodore Le Blanc stayed in Greece and the Levant for approximately three years from around 1825 to 1827, (possibly longer as his album includes a plate dated 1831, from Constantinople). Although his time coincided with the French Scientific Expedition (1829-1830), his activity was independent of it. Leblanc drew from life; his works are marked by caricature but convey intense emotion. His paintings… Read More

Surabaja.: Panjebar Semangat.. (Circa1950).. Black & white photographic illustrations, 32pp. Text in Indonesian. .

London.: Hakluyt Society.. 1987.. xvii + 342pp, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Second series No. 168. .

Japan.: 中央公論社.. 1951. Frontispiece, 293pp, page edges browned with browned spine, a sound hardback copy. .

Melbourne.: Monash University Press.. 2008.. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 230pp, bibliography, index, small mark on half-title, very good paperback copy. "The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, divine lover, protector and/or bloodthirsty ogress. In 'The Iconic Female' ten Australian researchers working on many aspects of the Devi have come together to offer new research on the divine female." (Publisher's description). .

New Delhi.: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers.. 1980.. Colour and black and white illustrations, xii + 83pp, bibliography, index, edges lightly foxed, dustjacket extremities worn with small chipped loss tail of spine, a good hardback copy otherwise. .