[Rarebooks] FS: A FEW BOOKS ON THE ORIENT

[Norman Kane]

KECK, MAUD & ORBISON, OLIVE. BEHIND THE DEVIL SCREEN.  N.Y.: Ives Washburn. 1928.  First edition.  Original cloth, slight wear. SIGNED  by both authors & inscribed: “If you will come behind the devil screen with us, we will spin you a tall tale.”  (Mystery set in China.)  $90.00

HOPKINS, L[IONEL] C.  . . .  THE GUIDE TO KUAN HUA, A TRANSLATION OF THE “KUAN HUA CHIH NAN” WITH AN ESSAY ON TONE AND ACCENT IN PEKINESE & A GLOSSARY ... FIFTH EDITION.  Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1921.  Original cloth-backed printed boards, some faded penciling on the end paper, very good. OCLC locates only 3 copies of this edition in the U.S. $ 50.00

CHINESE ACROBATICS . . .  Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1974. Original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout in color and in black and white. $20.00

AONO, TAKEO.  JAPAN AFTER GOLD BAN REMOVAL.  Tokyo, &c. (1931).  Original boards, just slightly rubbed.  Frontispiece- newspaper facsimile of the Osaka Mainichi.  $ 30.00

GANPULEY, N. G.  NETAJI IN GERMANY, A LITTLE-KNOWN CHAPTER.Chaupatty; Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1959.  First edition.  Original wrappers, bookseller’s stamp, very good. Many illustrations.  (The amazing story of Subhas Chandra Bose who trained Indian deserters in Germany to fight for the Germans.) $ 90.00

CHENEY, FRANK WOODBRIDGE.  TWO YEARS IN CHINA AND JAPAN 1859-1861, BY . . . ANTOINETTE CHENEY CROCKER. #110 OF A LIMITED EDITION.  Westwood, Mass., (1970). 4to, original cloth/boards, nice  copy, illustrated. Review copy.  $ 30.00

BABCOCK, J. P.  BABCOCK’S RULES FOR MAH-JONGG. THE RED BOOK OF RULES. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED ... San Francisco & Shanghai, (1923). 9th printing. Original boards, stains on cover. $25.00

HSIEH, TEHYI.  CONFUCIUS SAID IT FIRST.  Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, (1936). SIGNED inscription by the author, including his name in Chinese. Portr.  $30.00

EDEL, LEON.  THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL.  Tokyo, 1959.  First of this edition.  Original cloth, very good, in somewhat worn dust wrapper.  Portrait.  SIGNED inscription by Edel describing himself as “an old oriental friend.” OCLC locates only 3 copies. $90.00

A GENERAL GUIDE TO THE DACCA MUSEUM.  Dacca Museum, 1964.  Original cloth-backed pictorial 
boards, some soiling. Illustrated. $20.00

BARRETT, DAVID D.  A PRIMER IN THE WRITING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1934.  Original cloth, slight wear.  First edition.  $50.00

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