Resultados de búsqueda: Asia from High Park Books

Kanazawa, Japan: Hokkoku Publishing, 1981. Soft cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cream, illustrated wraps with matching dust jacket. 19 folk tales from the Ishikawa Prefecture, formerly Kaga & Noto provinces. 145 pages with wood cuts. 146 pages 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slight soiling to dust jacket with minor wear. Pages clean, tight & unmarked.

Tokiyo: Japan Culture Institute, 1982. Stapled Wraps. Very Good+. A condensed English translation of a longer monograph published in Japan in 1981. Translated byJames W. Heisig 99pp. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Minor corner curling and small corner crease. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Uncommon.

Taipei, Taiwan: National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, 1989. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. A patriotic & romanticized remembrance of the life & career of the Taiwan leader trhough art. . Second Edition - the first edition was published in 1988. Decorative, beige boards with gilt embossed lettering in English & Chinese text. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Approx 36 pages with English text & 210 pages with full-pages colour illustrations / paintings with Chinese text. Scarce. Due to size & weight, extra shipping WILL be required outside Canada. If outside Canada, please do not order before contacting us first by email to determine proper postage.

Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Colour photos, fold-out map, 114 pages. Translated from the Japanese by Taitetsu Unno .

Seoul, Korea: National Music Research Society, 1974. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good+/Very Good+. Songs of the prolific Korean composer, scholar & founder of South Korea's Dong-A Engineering Institute (1939) and Han Yang University (1914 - 2008). 312 pages with music, Korean & English lyrics and monochrome photographs. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illustrated covers enclosed in plastic wraps with slip cover which has wear & rubbing. INSCRIBED to O. J. Firestone, Ottawa civil servant / economist / educator, prodigious and incredibly important Canadian art collector. Uncommon association copy.

Urban & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. First Softcover Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No DJ Issued. Stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance, uncollected stories and journalistic essays by the first published Asian North American fiction writer. Eurasian Sui Sin Far (1865 - 1914) settled in Montreal with her family, and later lived in various American cities. She wrote about the immigrant experience and how the Chinese were caught between worlds. INSCRIBED by Amy Ling on half title page. The editors are professors at the University of Wisconsin. 296pp. Very slight corner wear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Toronto Alpha, 2007. First Edition . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. A commemoration publication of the massacre of Nanking, China by Japanese forces in 1937. Foreword by John Fraser. 205 pages filled with art and photography. Square 8vo (8" x 8").

TIFF / IIFA, 2011. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine. Seema Sardesai. A collection of paintings, inspired by Raj Kapoor films, by acclaimed Goa-based artist Seema Sardesai's created for the 2011 Raj Kapoor retrospective in Toronto, an initiative of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA.) The salute highlighted the influence that the Kapoor family, whether as actors, directors or producers have had on Indian cinema. Eight of the 15 paintings from the retrospective are reproduced here. 19 pages with colour illustrations. Oblong 12mo (6 1/2" x 8 1/2"). Minor bump to bottom spine end.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Based on declassified materials from 8 Ukrainian & Russian archives, the scholarly work offers a complex & vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism using the Ukraine as a case study. The Ukrainian Canadian historian / academic is an assistant professor in the department of Germanic & Russian Studies and the Department of History at the University of Victoria. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. (vv) 231 pages with bibliography, index, map & B&W photos. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slight wear at spine ends & corners of dust jacket. Slight curvature to boards.

Kashmir Centres, 1993. Assumed First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. Translated and revised by Air Marshal (Retd) Ayaz Ahmed Khan. 7" X 9-1/4". Contains some horrifying colour photos of women who have suffered at the hands of Indian security forces, including being raped, beaten and killed. 2,000 copies were printed of this first edition. 218 pages. Scarce

China Intercontinental Press, 2005. Soft cover. Fine. The author is a Chinese researcher of Tibetan history, religion & culture. 141 pages with B&W photos. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Very Good. 31 illustrated exercises. 46 pages in English. 51 pages of B&W photos & 41 pages of Chinese text. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall No date, author, publisher or publisher location mentioned. Assumed circa 1970s. Very Good - to Very good condition. Minor rubbing with a crease at bottom front corner. Pages clean, tight and unmarked with minor creasing to the top corners of 8 back pages.

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine +. Archaeological research in southern Israel by the professor (1919-2007) of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. (xxii) 250 pages with more than 80 B&W photographs of individual burials & burial goods with tables, plans & section drawings. Complete with 4 back pocket map inserts & legends for pocket inserts. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Due to size & weight, extra shipping will be required. Please email us to determine an accurate postal cost to your region.

Gansu Culture Pub. House / Reception Department of Dunhuang Academy, 1998. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good+. An album of magnificent colour photographs of wall paintings and sculpture created in the caves, located in the deserts of the northwestern Gansu province, primarily by post- Christ Buddhists artists from many nationalities that reflects the international reality of the Silk Road of China. The Dunhuang caves, based on its sheer size, amount of ancient art and the superior quality of its art , has caused it to be called the greatest museum of art in the world. 136 pages Oblong 4to (10 3/4" x 11 1/2"). Slight corner wear and slight bumps at spine ends and rub marks on back cover. Internals fine. Scarce. Please do not order unless willing to pay extra shipping due to weight & size.

SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good+. A Chinese-written history of Tibet, including its present policies, economy, society, culture & life. Illustrated wraps with french flaps. Chinese & English text. 296 pages with some charts & B&W photos. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A slight crease to front cover and some inside page.

Peking, China: Foreign Languages Press, 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. Good/Poor. ...a penetrating portrayal of the working people of old China, and a synopsis of the history of oppression of the Chinese nation in modern times". "...a work of high patriotism and revolutionary realism." Stated First Edition - April, 1953. Paperback with dustjacket (light, green, paper cover attached to spine, with flaps) DJ missing on back cover and is torn and missing chips on front and spine. Paper cover is age-browned, bent along edges and worn. Internal pages clean and tight. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hanoi, Vietnam: Foreigh Language Publishing House, 1974. First Edition . Very Good. Collection of Vietnamese short stores written during the post-colonial period, reflecting a culture and society always at war and trying to find its voice. Blue and white card covers. 281pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former owner's name and stamp on inside pages. Minor rubbing to spine and a crease on top corner of cover. Uncommon first editi