Search Results: Chinese from Minotavros Books

Indianapolis: Authorhouse, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. ix, 396 p.p. Cloth. No marks to dust-jacket. Bruising towards bottom of front board. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book. This book tells the story of the Ming Dynasty of China in it's formative years.

San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Orig. black cloth. 256 pp. Fully illustrated. Fine in fine custom slipcase.

London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wood, Elsie Anna. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Full blue paper boards. Rebacked with new printed paper spine label. 62 pp. Colour illustrations in text. Staining and rubbing to boards, wear to corners. Light soiling to interior. Very good overall.

Taipei: Ch'eng-wen Publishing Company, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (super). Orig. brown cloth. 436 pp. Fading and wear to spine ends, bruising to corners. Interior lightly age toned. Light chipping to fore edge of ffep. About fine.

New York: Grove Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Volume 2. xxxi, 476 p.p. Cloth. Inner flap price clipped. Bruising along edges of dust-jacket. Hinges slightly loose. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Interior clean. Near fine copy of book.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. First soft cover edition. xxiii, 334 pp. Minor bruise to head of front joint, slight curling to corners of front cover, fine overall.

New York: Issued Under the Auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations By the John Day Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. Enlarged Edition With a Supplement for the Years 1938 to 1942 by George E. Taylor. Orig. orange cloth, 207pp. Illustrated with maps. From the library of C.B. Farrar, his bookplate on front pastedown. Light offsetting to front endpapers, corners are slightly bowed o/w very good in sunned d/w, a small tear to lower front jacket cover.

Hong Kong: Hai Feng Publishing, 1989. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Cong, Ding. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Chinese and English. Soft cover. 324 pp. B&W illustrations. Some staining to rear cover, sunned to spine, staining to fore edge of text block.

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hill, Jeff. 16mo. Pictorial paper boards, matching dust jacket. 63 pp. Red and black illustrations in text. Light rubbing to extremities, dust jacket is cropped to front flap, else fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Lilienstein, Mabel Wong. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 190 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Some bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped and worn to extremities, damp staining to fore edge and spine head.

Canada: The Canadian School Alumni Association, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 309 p.p. Cloth. No jacket. Endpapers designed with maps. Illustrations and photographs throughout book. Sheet music from pg. 290-296. No marks to boards or interior, clean, a fine copy of book.

Quebec City: s/n. No Binding. Very Good. [ca. 1920]. Red printed advertisement, 1pp. Printed in English and French. Wrapper lightly sunned, o/w very good. Contains a laundry price list for a variety of clothing, incl. 'Socks per pair: 3c; Lady's Skirt, plain: 15c; New White Shirt: 10c ...' Open 7 days a week, Charlie Hong's First Class Chinese Laundry was located at 31 Claire Fontaine St. in Quebec City. "Strangers wishing their clothes delivered must pay in advance." 0.

The London Missionary Society. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1900]. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. 287 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block. Stamp of the Jacklin Library, presentation stamp to ffep. Interior age toned. 0.

Singapore: Donald Moore, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial paper boards. With drawings by the author. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Pencil ownership inscription to ffep. Edge toning to interior.

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1971. Fourth Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (royal). Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXVII. 10th Reprint. Frontis plus 8 illustrations throughout. 227 pp. Light scratching to covers. Very light rubbing to edges. Book in near fine condition.

Hong Kong: Wan Li Book Company, 1979. Soft cover. Fine. 6.5" x 7.5" Soft cover. 103 pp. Colour photographs throughout. Facing translations from Chinese to English. A few very slight spots of rubbing and wear to extremities, fine overall.

New York: Viking, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter yellow paper over red paper boards. xvi,496 pp. [32] pp. B&W photographs. Fine condition.

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8.5" x 8" Oblong. Orig. red cloth, green stamped flower and duck vignette to front board. 136 pp. Numerous illustrations, many colour photographs. Interior slightly age toned, else fine.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.75" x 7.5" Oblong. Soft cover. 46 pp. B&W illustration. Spine tilted. Black scuff to top edge of text block. Foxing to edges of text block. Embossed ex libris stamp to ffep.

New York: Paperback Library, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 4" x 7" Soft cover. 256 pp. Spine tilted and creased. Covers lightly soiled. Interior age toned. Nearly 400 tantalizing, exotic dishes you can prepare with ingredients easily available at your grocery or supermarket.