ONLINE BOOK SALE

Books pertaining to China, Tradition and Culture

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PICTURE STORY OF THE ROMANCE OF LIANG SHAN-PAI AND CHU YING-TAI

At the Time of Tung Chin Dynasty, In the Fourth Century A.D.

Circa 1950

Hardcover

Concertina book covered with maroon fabric brocade boards and has a printed paper label on front cover.

Text in Chinese and English.

Ten hand-coloured silk plates with silk brocade borders.

Condition: GOOD

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P'ang Tao Eight Fairies Festival

A festival held on the 3rd lunar month in honor of the Goddess Hsi Wang mu.

EDITION: Circa 1930

Condition: Good Hardcover

Binding:Wooden boards, with blocked Chinese emblem to front

Description:Ten hand painted water colour illustrations on cloth, in concertina style, wooden boards on each end of the book.

Chinese characters on the top cover

Text in Chinese and English

Those depicted are: Han Chung Li, Lu Tung Pin, Li T'ihn - Kuai, Tsao Kuo Chiu, Chang Kuo Lac, Ho Hsien Ku, Han Hsiang Tzu, Lan Tsai Ho, Lao Shou Hsing and Hsi Wang - Mu

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A DAILY USE ENGLISH CHINESE DICTIONARY

Dust Jacket: reasonable condition

Publisher THE WORLD BOOK CO.

Blue Leatherette binding.

Size: 10cm by 16.5cm and 7cm thick.

1950 pages plus the addendum of 83 pages more and more appendices. T

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The Four Books by James Legge

Early edition

Includes: The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mear, Confucian Analects and The Works of Mencius.

The International Publication Society, Hong Kong

Paperback in Fair condition

Foxing on pages.

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SELECTED POEMS OF THE TANG DYNASTY

PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLISHING CO.

JAN. 1962

PAPERBACK

CONDITION GOOD

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SELECTION FROM FOUR BOOKS TRANSLATED

EDITED BY WILLIAM HO

PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLISHING CO.

PAPERBACK

CONDITION GOOD

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CHINESE FABLES OF ANCIENT TIMES

EDITED BY T.C.DUNCAN CHOW

PAPERBACK

PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLISHING CO.

CONDITION GOOD

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SOURCES OF CHINESE TRADITION VOLUME 1

COMPILED BY W.M THEODORE DE BARY, WING-TSIT CHAN, BURTON WATSON

COPYRIGHT 1960

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

ISBN 0-231-08602-4

Printed in the United States of America

11 10 9

Condition good

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SOURCES OF CHINESE TRADITION VOLUME II

Introduction to Oriental Civilisations Wm. Theodore de Bary editor.

Compiled by: WM Theodore de Bary, Wing-Tsit Chan, Chester Tan

Columbia University Press

Printed in the United States of America

9 8 7

ISBN 0-231-08603-2

Condition good

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Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Selected Speeches 1943-1982

Published February 1984

  • Hardcover Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt
  • Publisher: The Chinese Women's Anti-Aggression League
  • Language: English

Managing Editor: Lee Ao

Shanghai Printing Works Co., Ltd Taipei

CONDITION VERY GOOD

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THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUS

Edited and translated with notes by Lin Yutang

Illustrated by Jeanyee Wong

The Illustrated Modern Library

Copyright 1938, 1943 by Random House Inc

265 pages

Condition very good

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CHINA IN THE EYES OF EUROPE The Sixteenth Century

By Donald F. Lach

Paperback

Copyright 1965, 1968 by the university of Chicago

First Phoenix Edition 1968

821 pages

Size: 20.5cm x 13.5cm x 1cm thick

Minor wear on cover and small turned up page edge lower right on first five pages

Owners name and location written top left inside cover

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CHINA SINCE 1800

By John A. Harrison

An original Harbinger Book

Paperback

Copyright February 1967

C.6.69

Library of Congress Catalog card Number: 66-28625

Printed in the United States of America

Condition fair. Blue pen underline markings throughout book. Original owners name and location handwritten in top left corner inside cover.

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TRADITIONAL CHINA

EDITED BY JAMES T. C. LIU and WEI-MING TU

A Spectrum Book S-217

Paperback

Copyright 1970 Prentice-Hall, Inc

C-13-926014-5

P-13-926006-4

Current printing last number 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

179 pages + 1 page Asian Civilisation

Condition good. Minor foxing on inside of back cover along top edge. Original owners handwritten name and located inscribed in blue ink top left inside front cover

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20th CENTURY CHINA second edition

By O. Edmund Clubb

paperback

Copyright 1964, 1972 Coumbia University Press

First Edition 1964, Second Edition 1972

Paperbound edition ISBN: 0-231-08300-9

526 pages

Condition good. Some yellowing on back cover. Original owners handwritten name and location inscribed with blue ink top left inside front cover

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THE CHINESE THEIR HISTORY and CULTURE

By Kenneth Scott Latourette

Hardcover with dust jacket

Fourth revised edition

Two volumes in one.

Copyright The MacMillan Company 1934, 1946, 1964

Copyright renewed 1962 by Kenneth Scott Latourette

Eighth Printing 1971

Library Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-17372

714 pages

Condition good, Blue pen underlining on some pages. original owners handwriteen name inscribed with blue pen top left inside hardcover.

Includes two newpaper cuttings 1976 regarding the Memoir of Mao. 1. The Australian, Number 3785, Saturday September 11, 1976 by Gough Whitlam

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CHINA LIBRARY OF NATIONS

Time Life Book

Copyright 1984

Hardcover with Dust Jacket

ISBN 7054 0840 X

Cover photograph by Thomas Nebbia from Woodfin Camp Associates, New York

Includes original purchase receipt dated 16/04/87

Condition very good. Dust jacket has tiny nick bottom about 1 inch from spine.

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CHINA A WORLD SO CHANGED

C.P. FITZGERALD and MYRA ROPER

Copyright Thomas Nelson Australia Limited 1972

SBN 17 001972 1

Hardcover book with dust jacket

Condition very good. Dust jacket has slight rubbing along top of front cover and spine. Original owners handwritten name inscribed in blue pen on top left inside hardcover

243 pages

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THE WORLD and SOUTH EAST ASIA

Produced and Published by Oswald Ziegler Enterprises Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia

Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Copyright Oswald Ziegler Enterprises 1972

First printed November 1972

Reprint January 1973

Foreword by the Non. E.G. Whitlam Q.C.M.P Prime Minister of Australia

613 pages + Authors and Index to Articles

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 73 183940

ISBN 0 909586 039

CONDITION good.

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OVER CHINA

AUTHOR: Kevin Sinclair with Foreword by Gough Whitlam

PUBLISH DATE: 1988 first publication

Copyright 1988 International Publishing Corporation

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson

Photography by Dan Budnik, Georg Gerster, Paul Lau, Wu Shouzhuang and Jeremy Young.

ISBN- 020716052X

No. of pages: 288

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Glossy paper

Condition: Good.

Size: 36cm by 26cm by 2.5cm thick

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CHINA THE LAND and THE PEOPLE

Author: Joe Griffith

Publisher: Gallery Books

Copyright 1988 The Image Bank

Publish date: 1988 first publication

ISBN 0 8317 1284 8

No. of pages:240

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Very Good

Glossy pages

Size 43cm by 27cm by 2cm thick

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