Item 1526The Cradle of Erotica
New York: The Julian Press, 1963. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Fourth printing. Hardcover, [octavo] with red cloth boards and gilt lettering and red end papers in glossy illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, 362 pp.
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Item 1360Chinese Language Narration
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013. Hardcover [octavo] in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 213 pp.
Item 1237Handbook for China
Shanghai: Carl Crow, [1921]. Second edition, revised. Hardcover, 4 5/8" x 6 3/4", dark navy boards with gilt lettering with red and white yin yang symbol painted on rear board, 6 folding maps, additional B & W illustrations, no dust jacket, [5] [i] ii-iv [4] 243 [1] [i] [ii-viii] [xx].....
Item 1460The Poet Kao Ch'i
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962. Hardcover, [octavo], gray cloth boards with white lettering in pictorial paper dust jacket, green end papers, 261 pp. F.W. Mote's biography of 14th Century Chinese poet Kao Ch'i whose life bridged the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
Beijing: Editions Xin Dong Cheng/Top Space, 2004. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps with french flaps, 7 1/4" x 9 3/8", 160 p. Published on the occasion of the 10-year retrospective exhibition of the artist, 'Fen-Ma Liuming'. With artist biography, interview conducted by Tang Xin, and critical essay by Caroline Puel: all.....
Item 1392Mipam
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. First English language edition. Hardcover, [octavo], speckled blue cloth boards with maroon lettering in paper pictorial dust jacket, 340 pp. The proclaimed first Tibetan novel. Written by Lama Yongden with the encouragement of their adopted matron Alexandra David-Neel. The author found foreigners, mainly.....
Item 899The China Threat
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Jacket design by Lisa Hamm. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black boards with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 295 pp.
Item 1323A Chinese Zither Tutor
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Hardcover red cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 9 1/4" x 6 3/8", 172 pp. Translated with commentary by Frederic Lieberman.
Item 1422Rasa, or Knowledge of the Self
New York: New Directions, 1982. Hardcover [quarto] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 107 pp.
Item 696The Life of an Amorous Man
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, Co, 1963. Illustrations by Masakazu Kuwata. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, purple cloth decoratively blindstamped to top board with silver stamped lettering to spine, 233 pp. First translated and illustrated edition of the 1682 transgressive Japanese classic; the tale of a hedonistic daijin (man of wealth) who.....
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