Storia regionale e locale

An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1795.

SYMES, Michael: · 1969 · Rochdale Book Company

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Gregg International, 1969, pp. xxiv, 504. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1800, complete with folding map and numerous folding plates. Original red cloth, spine sun-faded, small crease to corner of map, else very good condition.

The House of Memory: a novel of Shanghai.

Clifford, Nicholas R., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ballantine, (1994). First Edition. VG Hardback in G DJ. Clifford teaches East Asian history at Middlebury College. Front DJ Flap creased toward middle and bottom. Shanghai in the 1920s was full of great contrasts. A city of light and color, an exotic Paris of the East and ...

Art on the Rocks of southern africa.

Lee, D.N. and H.C. Woodhouse, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Scribner, (1970). VG in G DJ. Photos taken over a period of more than 10 years by two Johannesberg businesmen whose hobby is to search our and recod. the pictures on the rocks of Southern Africa. Map on endpapers. DJ minor edge wear.

The Safari Companion: a guide to watching African mammals.

Estes, Richard D., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

White River Jct, VT, Chelsea Gree, (1993). VG lg sz PB. First guide to watching and understanding the behavior of African mammals, an indispensable tool for safari travelers. Owner name front endpaper.

The Death of Woman Wang.

Spence, Jonathan D., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Viking, (1978). VG in G DJ. The small towns and village of rural China were the home of more than 100 million people by the 17th century. Ordinary. people in a far-off time and place might have thought totally inaccessible. Private anger and misery, loneliness, sensuality,...

Julia Newberry's Diary.

Newberry, Julia, · 1933 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc, (1933). 2nd ptg ss. G+. Contemporary observations on Chicago and Europe in 1870's esp. the Chicago fire, by a young girl who died in Rome at 22. Spine sunned, boards slightly faded otherwise tight clean copy.

Down the Mother Lode.

Hemphill, Vivia, · 1922 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Sacramento, Purnell's, 1922. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. DJ chipped. Pioneer tales of California. 12 mo.

Ancient Life in the American Southwest, with an introduction on the general history of the american race..

Hewett, Edgar L., · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Tudor Publishing Co, 1948. VG in G dj.

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography July 1986

LANKFORD, NELSON D. (EDITOR) · 1986 · Clausen Books

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Richmond, VA, Virginia Historical Society. 1986. Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Photos. Historical Periodical, Owner's name on front cover. Textblock very clean and tight; Covers lightly edge and corner rubbed; Pages 259-376. Includes: Virginian...

Lone Patriot: the Short Career of an American Minuteman

Kramer, Jane · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Pantheon, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., An account of the movement based on interviews with John Pitner and the Alpha One squad of Whatcom county, Washington.

Home Front

Elliott, Peter With An Introduction By Julia Reed · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket (in original shrinkwrap).

The Purpose Driven Life: Selected Thoughts and Scriptures for the Graduate

Warren, Rick · 2004 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Grand Rapids: Inspirio, 2004. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Is there life after graduation?.

Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism

Meisner, Maurice · 1970 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Antheneum, 1970. 1st Antheneum paperback edition., Occassional pencil underlining otherwise a sound reading copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). j, Li first began organizing for the Marxist movement in 1927.

Ibn Battuta in Black Africa

Hamdun, Said & Noel King Translators · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. revised printing with updated bibliography, Large remnant of earlier price sticker on rear cover otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Of all medieval travel writers, only...

Incredible Tale: the Odyssey of the Average America in the Last Half-Century

Johnson, Gerald W · 1950 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Harper, 1950. 1st printing of 1st edition., Previous owner's gift inscription on front end paper otherwise very good+ trade hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise good dust jacket., What a half-century! Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Josef Stalin.

The First Emperor of China: the Greatest Archeological Find of Our Time

Cotterell, Arthur · 1981 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In 1974 archaeologists upcovered the tomb of Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, who unified China from its feudal period, which included 7, 000 life-size terracotta soldiers, chariots a...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi

Spence, Jonathan D · 1975 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Random House/Vintage Books, 1975. ! st Vintage edition., Light foxing along page edges (not effecting page margins or text) otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., An excursion into the imperial world of K'...

And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa

Pheto, Molefe · 1983 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Allison & Busby, 1983. 1st printing of 1st edition., Pages beginning to darken otherwise near fine hard cover book/ slight rubbing otherwise near fine dust jacket., Pheto was a Soweto music teacher & activist and was arrested without explanation and held from nine months (...

The Old South

Page, Thomas Nelson · 1892 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Scribner, 1892. 1st printing of 1st edition., First page & last four pages foxed otherwise a clean good hard cover book/ no dust jacket.

Tibetanishces Vogelbuch: Oder Der Kostbare Kranz Des Vogelbesetzes

Von Taube, Otto · 1957 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Zurich: Peter Schifferli Verlags (Die Arche), 1957. rubbed otherwise very good paperback in decorative boards/ no dust jacket., Text in German. 64 pages, illustrated.