Japan: Circa 1950. Folded leaf measuring 10 3/4 x 15", with photographic illustrations of Christian mission work in Japan on one side and a handwritten letter on the other by Mrs. Yutaka Akichika. The Reverend Yutaka Akichika moved to the USA as a boy, where he met his Nikkei wife.....
Los Angeles: Quon-Quon Company, 1941. A collection of 14 stapled booklets, each measuring 4.25 x 3.74", relating to Chinese history and culture and published by a Los Angeles company. Includes: Kuan Yin, Chinese Festivals, The Romance of Chinese Metal Art, Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Carvings, Chinese Porcelain and Pottery, The Story.....
Japan: Circa 1890s. Decorative album binding measuring 8 x 6" containing pastoral Asian scenes, containing 48 color tinted albumen photographs, each measuring 5.5 x 4" and bound accordion style. A nice collection of early images of Japan, including photos of geishas, group photos, landscape photos, pastoral images, urban images, hotels.....
Circa 1930s. Color lithograph print measuring 18.5 x 13 inches (plus border). Very good with creasing, short closed tear to margin.
Rangoon: [American Baptist Mission], 1896. Quarto, 4pp. Vol. IX No 5, November 1896. Creasing, toning, splitting along the folds. Good.
1890. A collection of eighteen albumen photographs and CDVs, circa 1890, pasted to album leaves. Subject matter includes landmarks mostly in Pakistan (cities of Quetta, Karachi, Abbottabad, Jacobabad) while two photographs depict the well at Cawnpore, India. The album probably belonged to the military officer depicted in the cdvs in.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1844. First Edition. Small 8vo, marbled boards with black morocco spine with gilt bands and gilt spine titles, 234 pp, illustrated with engravings. Mild toning and foxing to pages, shelf stamp to spine, ownership stamps to pastedowns, wear to covers.
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1916 and 1917. 8vos, blue cloth with gilt lettering, [26], 541 pp, and [26], 539 pp, illustration plates. Two volumes. In nice condition with bumping to corners, mild wear and scuffing to covers, hint of pink staining to edge of second volume.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 220 pp. Account of an American agent's time in China during WWII. Very good with foxing to covers and endpapers, rubbing to jacket at extremities, chip to rear corner of jacket.
New York and Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains/Jennings & Pye, 1902. First Edition. 8vo, red decorative cloth, 248 pp. Front endpaper lacking, mild soiling to covers, sunning to spine, cloth worn at corners and edge with area of loss to upper spine cloth.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. 4to, original pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, 176pp, profusely illustrated throughout. In the original scarce printed dust jacket. A collection of stories, anecdotes and studies of the lives of Children in China, by an American missionary and Science Professor at Peking University.....
Shangai: No Date. 8vo, 298, 378, pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, printed on thin paper. Chinese edition of volume 1 of Legge's Chinese classics. Printed no later than 1911, as a gift inscription dated May 28, 1911, at the University of Washington in Seattle, is present. Also with.....
New York: Chinese Culture Study Group of America, 1946. 4to, green cloth with dust jacket, 134 pp, illustrated. Number 187 of a limited first edition of 1500 copies. Original prospectus for the book laid in. Very good with fading to covers, staining to dust jacket, chipping to rear panel of.....
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1922. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 447 pp. "China Edition 1922" to copyright page. Very good with toning to pages, foxing to endpapers, toning and fading to jacket, closed tears along edges of jacket.
Hong Kong: Kee Ngar, 1919. 8vo, black printed boards with cloth spine, 279 pp. Fifth edition. A scarce beginner's guide to the English language printed in Hong Kong. The text begins with simple vocabulary--numbers, telling time, kitchen utensils, etc, before moving on to short phrases, dialogues, letter writing, and short.....