[Rarebooks] FS: THE ORIENT

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Tue Aug 16 22:25:22 EDT 2011


   
CLARK, GROVER.  IN PERSPECTIVE . . . THE POLITICO-MILITARY SITUATION IN CHINA IN THE SUMMER OF 1927.
Peking, 1927.  Original cloth, [2], 69 pages.  $ 40

ORIENTAL MAGAZINE. VOLUME 1, NO. 2, MAY/JUNE, 1927.  Original colorful wraps. (Tagore, Liang Chi Chao,
Henri Borel, et al.)  $ 10

PARSONS, WM. B.  AN AMERICAN ENGINEER IN CHINA.  N. Y., 1900.  First edn. Orig, cloth,  Illus.  $40

GILES, H.A.  GEMS OF CHINESE LITERATURE: VERSE. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.
Shanghai, 1923. Orig. cloth/boards, just slight wear. Bookplate of Esther E. Kreps, a nursing missionary in            China, 1926-27.  $ 35

WINTERBOTHAM, W.  AN HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE. IN 2 VOLUMES: VOLUME 1 ONLY.  Phila: Richard Lee, 1796.  Old calf, joints professionally mended. [4], 303. [4] pp.
$ 175

COLTON, JOHN.  THE SHANGHAI GESTURE, A PLAY. INTRO. BY JOHN E. WILLIAMS. N. Y., 1926. First edn, original
cloth, in a worn, chipped pictorial d.w. Name on end paper.  $ 45

LONG, JOHN L.  LITTLE MISS JOY-SING ... Phila., (1904).  First edn.  Original decorated boards, very good,  in a            very good dust wrapper. Illus.  $ 45

POCKET GUIDE TO JAPAN.  Tokyo, 1939. [WITH]: JAPAN, THE POCKET GUIDE. Tokyo, 1947. The first in pictorial
wraps, the second in  orig. flexible cloth.  Maps, illus.   The two,  $ 40

KRIPALANI, KRISHNA.  FAITH AND FRIVOLITY.   New Delhi, (1962). First, in pictorial wraps. SIGNED inscription
by the author.  $ 40

SPEER, R. E.  GEORGE BOWEN OF BOMBAY, MISSIONARY, SCHOLAR, MYSTIC, SAINT ... PRINTED PRIVATELY, 1938.  Original cloth, portrait.  $ 20

BALLER, F. W.    MANDARIN PRIMER ... FOURTH EDITION.  Shanghai, 1900.  Slight wear. $ 55

LUOMALA, KATHARINE.  VOICES ON THE WIND. POLYNESIAN MYTHS AND CHANTS. Bishop Museum, (1955). 
First edition. Orig. decorated wraps. SIGNED inscription by the author. $ 30

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