Storia regionale e locale

Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album

Richler, Mordecai · 1984 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Knopf, 1984. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ small closed tear on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album

Richler, Mordecai · 1984 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Knopf, 1984. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ light foxing on rear dust jacket panel otherwise very good+ dust jacket.

The Canadians

Malcolm, Andrew H · 1986 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

Toronto: PaperJacks, 1986. 1st paperback edition., Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

The Golden Dream: Suburbia in the 1970'S

Birmingham, Stephen · 1978 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$2.50 (€2.27 | £1.89 | ¥399)

NY: Harper & Row, 1978. 1st printing of 1st edition., Slight foxing on page edges (not effecting the margins or text) otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ dust jacket lightly yellowing otherwise very good+ dust jacket.

No Room in the Ark

Moorehead, Alan · 1959 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Harper, 1959. A small residual of owner's address label on front end paper otherwise near fine hard cover book/ two 1 inch chips otherwise good+ dust jacket.

Canada Cancelled Because of Lack of Interest

Nicol, Eric & Peter Whalley · 1977 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1977. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ closed tears dust jacket spine ends otherwise very good+ price clipped dust jacket, At last, Canadians can rejoice over what distinguishes them for Americans, Britons, French and, even, lawn...

Illustrated Lady's Dress of the Qing Dynasty

No Author Stated · 2007 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

China: dutotime. com, 2007. Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Photographs and descriptions of women's ceremonial dress & clothing accessories of the Qing dynasty. Text in Chinese. 213 pages, well illustrated in color.

The Overland Monthly (No. VI, December 1868)

Various Contributors · 1968 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

San Francisco: A. Roman & Co, 1968. Two inch soil spot at the base of the front wrapper (cover). Edgewear & lower right corner of pages creased. An early ink inscription on front cover. Interior pages are clean. Paperback magazine in decorative wrappers (soft cover). 8vo., Pag...

A Selection of Photos Taken in Zhouzhuang

Gu, Dongsheng (Preface) · 1997 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Jiangsu: Jiangsu Photographic Association, 1997. Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (softcover) in laminated paper slipcase., In the spring of 1996 the Jiangsu Photographic Association sponsored a traveller's photo festival and contest. Zhouzhuang is intersected by fo...

Webster! : an Autobiography

Webster, Jack · 1990 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. 4th printing., Near fine hard cover book/ a scratch on the rear dust jacket panel otherwise a very good dust jacket., Jack Webster emigrated to Canada after World War II and became a hard-hitting, muckraking journalist and later television ...

Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood

Horowitz, Irving Louis · 1990 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Press, 1990. 1st printing of 1st edition, A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The world famous microbiologist came from a Russian Jewish immigrant family which eked out a living in Harlem.

Chinese Horoscopes: The Twelve Signs and What They Mean

Aubier, Catherine translated by Eileen Finletter & Ian Murray · 1988 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY: Crescent Books, 1988. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise a very good dust jacket.

Things Chinese

Lai, TC Editor, Compiled & Written By H Rolfe · 1971 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Kowloon: Swindon Book Co, 1971. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. 8vo., A useful glossary and history of traditional Chinese terms, cultural practices and events; 188 pages, a few illustrations.

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes

Lau, Theodora · 1979 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Harper Perennial, 1979. 11th printing., Near fine clean, unmarked, complete paperback in decorative wrappers (softcover book). 8vo., A comprehensive & classic survey of the Chinese lunar cycles and the five basic elements and their relationship to your horoscope; 314 pages...

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Chang, Jung · 1992 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$3.00 (€2.72 | £2.27 | ¥479)

NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1992. 1st Anchor paperback edition., Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (softcover book). 4to., Mesmerizing. A first hand account of the revolution followed by Mao's idiosyncratic rule and the resultant chaos and extreme hardship among the party f...

Shu Fa Chu Yu Su Dien: a Short Selection of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Precepts Written in Four Specimens of Chinese Calligraphy By Chung Kin Wong

[Sun Yat Sen] Wong, Chung Kin · 1963 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Honolulu: Kong Chung School, 1963. Ex-library. Library & withdrawn stamps on front end paper & title page & outline of a library pocket that was skillfully removed otherwise clean, unmarked, complete reading copy in plain boards (trade hard cover book)/ no dust jacket. Oversiz...

Revolution, There and Back

BREDSDORFF, JAN · 1980 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£11.69 (€14.01 | $15.44 | ¥2,466)

Faber. 1980. (ISBN: 9780571115006). Hardback. Hardback with dustjacket - 1980 - good condition - - used books, secondhand books, for sale, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first editions, exlibrary books sold,...

China: An Integrated Study

COTTERELL, ARTHUR · 1975 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£23.38 (€28.02 | $30.89 | ¥4,932)

Harrap. 1975. (ISBN: 9780245519444). Hardcover. Hardback with dustjacket - 1975 - condition good exlibrary - used books, secondhand books, for sale, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first editions, exlibrary b...

Princes of Jade

CAPON, EDMUND · 1973 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£13.36 (€16.01 | $17.65 | ¥2,819)

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 1973. (ISBN: 9780171410518). Hardcover. Exlibrary Condition good. Isbn 0-17-141051-3, 0171410513. Used: Acceptable.

The Unsolved Problem: Southern Africa (World Outlook)

DYER, MARTYN · 1968 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£46.76 (€56.05 | $61.78 | ¥9,865)

Faber and Faber. 1968. (ISBN: 9780571088751). Paperback. Condition good, some slight marking on rear cover. Isbn 0-571-08875-9, 0571088759. Used: Acceptable.