Search Results: Oriental Studies from Minotavros Books

Hong Kong: Historic City Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed with date. First edition. Scarce. Soft cover. 256 pp. B&W photos and maps. Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Son's, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xxii, [2], 3-863 p.p. Jacket chipped at edges, corners of covers. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Boards rubbed with wear to spine head. Small dent to lower joint. Pages browned, otherwise interior clean. In very good condition.

Paris: Mouton & Co, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. [Formal Analysis of Poetic Work by a Tang Author: Zhang Ruo-Xu]. Paperback, 133pp. Name on front fly-leaf, light soiling to wrappers but o/w very good. Literary critique of Tang Dynasty Poet Zhang Ruo-Xu. Text in French.

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.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. ix, 262 p.p. Light rubbing to covers, edges. Otherwise near fine.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo (tall). Quarter black cloth, teal paper boards. Map endpapers. 204 pp. [16] pp. B&W photo plates. Bruising to spine ends and corners. Some fading to endpapers at hinges. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped and lightly worn at extremities. Darkening to spine. A rich and provocative memoir of a Westerner's first encounter with Communist China.

Oshawa: Triumph Sports Communications, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 200 pp. Minor creasing and rubbing to spine, else fine. From January 1994 to July 1997, Roger Lajoie wrote 208 columns for This Week newspapers on, well, just about everything. This collection presents 90 of the author's favourite columns with something to enjoy for everyone.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xx, 850 p.p. B&W illustrations in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, chipped to spine head and upper corner of front cover, a few short tears and creases at head.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Taupe cloth boards, red spine label and gilt lettering to spine. xvi, 713 p.p. B&W illustrations and maps in text. Light foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket sunned to spine, a few short tears and creases at head, slight age toning to flaps, some bumping to extremities. Covers the complex interpaly of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration.

London: Charles Knight & Co, 1840. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. A new edition, enlarged and revised, in which the History of English Intercourse is brought up to the present time. Half contemporary calf, orange faux lizard boards, burgundy cloth spine label. Orange textured endpapers. xii, 383 pp. Engraved illustrations in text. Calf is lightly rubbed, lightly faded to spine. Small damp stain to foot of front joint. Small chip to top edge of p. 215. Light soiling to edges of text block. A few sporadic dark spots, worst at p. 373. Light foxing to flyleaves, paper clip mark to top edge of ffep. Otherwise quite clean. John Francis Davis was the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong from 1844-1948, as well as the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China from 1834-1835.

London: Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 1846-5. Scarce. Three volumes bound in one, with 8 issues total. Various pagination. Includes Volume I: No. 12 (June 1864); Volume II: No. 13 (August 1864), No. 14 (September 1864), No. 15 (October 1864), No. 16 (November 1846), and No. 17 (December 1864); Volume III: No. 18 (January 1865), and No. 21 (April 1865). Full modern teal cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some light rubbing to spine and corners. Ex-library from the Benjamin Smith Lyman Collection, given as a memorial to the Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. Bookplate to front pastedown. Embossed library stamp and pointilist ex libris of Forbes Library to title page of Vol. I. Perforation to title page of Vol. I, repaired with tape to verso. A few stains and pencil annotations to interior. Some creasing to pages. A fascinating publication documenting life in China and Japan in the mid-1860s from the perspective of a Westerner.

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Chinese and English. Paperback. xiv, 357 p.p. Light bumping and rubbing to corners, scuff to tail edge, bumps to tail and fore edges of rear cover. Text is clean. This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry. Spanning two thousand years - from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chu form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368) - these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn.

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Sixth edition. xii, 344 p.p. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. Spine is sunned, bumped at ends, light smudging to front board. Roughly cut edges. Map endpapers. Text is clean throughout. Covers the geographic background of Chinese history, Chinese culture at the beginning of contact with the West, the War with Japan, the transformation of China, and the present-day problems of China.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pictorial soft cover. xii, 391 pp. [8] pp. B&W illustrations. Discolouration to spine, sticker ghost to head of front cover. Tail edge of text block soiled. For all students of Chinese art and culture this anthology will prove invaluable. It collects important Chinese writings about painting, from the earliest examples through the fourteenth century, allowing us to look at the art of this rich era as it was seen and understood in the artists' own times.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. viii, 391 pp. Sunning to spine, joints and top edges of covers. Some scuffing to spine and rear cover. Minor bump to upper front corner. Composed in 2 B.C. as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams, the book offers much to the modern reader. It is an essential tool for understanding the Tao as it operates in the Cosmos, in the minds of sages, and in sacred texts.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Full brown paper boards. 112 pp. Numerous colour illustrations in text. Light rubbing to edges. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly bumped to extremities, small perforation to rear cover, moderate foxing (mostly visible to reverse and rear flap). This book gives a concise account of the artistry of the Far East and serves as a manual for the collector, providing information on forming a collection, on buying individual pieces, and , most important, on detecting forgeries.

Finland: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1980. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original blue wraps, staple bound. 39 pp. Small damp stain to head of front cover, else fine.

Taichung, Taiwan: Chung-T'ai Printing Company, Ltd, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Pan, Tephan K.; T'ang Hung. 8vo (super). Full blue cloth, silver lettering. VIII, 198 pp., [3] plates, [2] Folding genealogical tables. Sunning and fading to spine ends and corners, wear to spine head. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket has significant chipping with loss, spine sunned, some creasing and wear to edges. A series of essays on outstanding women of the T'ang who lived during the reign of Emperor Hsuan-tsung (712-756), describing the effect they had on dynastic history. Dr. Howard Levy is an American sinologist who enjoyed several years of residence in Asia. He specialized in Chinese dynastic history, with concentration on the T'ang, and his articles and reviews have appeared in many learned periodicals.