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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.

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: 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.

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.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xxii, 483 pp. Fine. This pathbreaking volume will force a reassessment of many common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and modern China. The overall thrust of the twenty essays is that despite the conflicts and tensions that often have characterized relations between Christianity and China, in fact Christianity has been, for the past two centuries or more, putting down roots with in Chinese society, and is in the process of becoming a Chinese religion, as Buddhism did centuries ago.

London: The Rodale Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Buckland-Wright, John. 8vo. N.d., [1954]. Limited 1st edition, #193/1000. Lacks slipcase. Quarter black cloth, yellow cloth boards, silver stamped vignette to front board. A.E.R. 124 pp. [6] colour plates w/ tissues guards (tissue at 2nd plate is detached but present). Spine cocked and sunned, some general discolouration to cloth. Staining to upper corner of front pastedown, offsetting to free endpapers. 0.

London: Published for the Necomen Society by W. Heffer & Sons, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Second Biennial Dickinson Memorial Lecture to the Newcomen Society 1956. Quarter tan cloth, green cloth boards, gilt titles. xii, 76 pp., 31 numbered B&W plates. Spine tilted, some chafing and sunning to extremities, spine and rear joint sunned. Ink inscription to ffep.

Markham: Octopus Publishing Group, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full brown cloth. xviii, 314 pp. B&W photos in text. Fading to cloth at extremities of boards. In fine jacket. The result of more than ten years of research by one of Canada's top investigative journalists, Dragons of Crime is the first book-length expose of teh Chinese and Vietnamese gangs in North America.

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.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. tan buckram, orange and black paper spine label. Pictorial endpapers. xi, 340 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine is darkened, wear to edges of spine label, some rubbing to extremities and light staining to boards. Light staining to endpapers. Ink ownership stamp to ffep.

Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. First edition, first printing. 41 p.p. English with original Chinese. Quarter bound in brown cloth with tan paper boards, brown lettering to front. Boards have some damp staining and darkening to edges, some rubbing to edges and wear to corners. Hinge cracking to interior, but binding remains firm. Ex libris bookplate of former United Nations staff interpreter Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg to front pastedown. A collection of quotations and aphorisms from the works of Confucious on such topics as virtue, heaven, knowledge and learning, governing, family, war, and music.

Hong Kong: s.n.. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. [196-?] Orig. illustrated wrappers, staple bound. 52 pp. Toning and foxing to covers, creasing to upper corner of rear cover. 0.

London: Prion, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo [super]. Soft cover. 248 pp., [8]. Illustrations in text throughout. Fine condition.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1843. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo (small). 3 vols in custom red cloth slipcase. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Small 8vo, (4.25" x 6.75") Full red cloth, gilt titles and devices. Recently professionally rebacked with original spines laid down. 368; 498; 462 pp. B&W engraved illustrations in text, incl. engraved half-titles, B&W folding map to vol. I. Christmas gift inscription to front pastedown of vol. I dated 1846. Light general soiling to cloth commensurate with age. Light chafing to extremities, some bumping to corners, a few small spots of wear. Sporadic foxing to interior, mostly to front and end matter. Light edge toning.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Full black blind stamped cloth, gilt title to spine. In custom paper-covered slipcase with colour pictorial onlay. 415 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Spine cocked. Spot of soiling to rear board. Slipcase is scuffed, a few stains, a few small spots of wear.

London: Methuen & Co, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 4th edition, enlarged. Orig. blue cloth. xvi, 196 pp. [46] B&W plates. Spine faded, some damp staining to cloth, bowing to boards. Offsetting to endpapers.

London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. red cloth. xliv, 439 pp. Minor bruising to spine ends and fore edge of front board. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is damp stained, sunned and edge worn, chipped to spine ends.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. New Edition. Chapters 1-34 translated from the Chinese with an introductory study. Quarter black cloth, yellow cloth boards. xxi, 260 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Foxing to top edges of boards and edges of text block. Bookplate of Edgar T. Peer to front pastedown. Offsetting to rear endpapers. Interior clean and bright. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at spine, chipped and worn at spine head and rear corners. Written in the form of a dialogue in which the emperor seeks information from his minister Ch'i-Po on all questions of health and the art of healing, the Classic has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black cloth. xi, [1 b&w map], 238 pp. Slight bruise to spine head. Black pen scuff to fore edge of text block. Jacket has a few bumps. Else fine in fine jacket. Falling between the great unified empires of the Han and T'ang, the Period of Division (A.D. 220-589) is one of the most overlooked and least understood eras in Chinese history. In this groundbreaking history, Charles Holcombe examines the conditions that produced the literati - the shih-ta-fu, a new elite class - and shaped their activities during the first of the Southern dynasties, with particular attention to the life and thought of the fourth-century monk Chin Tun (314-366).

New York: Workman Publishing, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 288 pp. B&W photos. Slight curling to covers, light wear in a few spots, a few sticker ghosts.