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By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Hsinking, Manchouko, Hydroelectric Power Construction Bureau: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 32197
Condition: Very Good or Better
Outline of a Hydro Electric Power Project built at Sungari in Manchuria in 1938. 3pp text, in English, one folding photo plate and two, large folding maps at back. Further information and scans available on request. Weight, 70g. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Berlin, Wegweiser Verlag: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 32592
Condition: Fine
A volume in the Series - 'Jahresreihe fu¨r die Mitglieder des Volksverbandes der Bu¨cherfreunde, 8, 2. Bd'. Travel and Description of Sri Lanka, Burma and India. German language text. 360 pages, map, photo plates [41 photographs by the author], fixed silk page marker; 19 cm. OCLC Number: 1425420. Internally bright, pages white, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Spine and corners in tan leather, boards in decorative paper over boards. Very attractive book! Weight, 472g. View more info
By: AAVIK, Asbjorn
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Oslo, Gry Forlag: 1945
Edition: 3. Opplag
Seller ID: 21092
Condition: Good to VG
Norwegian language text. 136pp, photo illustrated. bright, clean interior. old signature to ffep. A little wear to cloth at extremities of spine. Dustjacket has missing pieces and considerable wear, otherwise clean. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 270g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates are based on specific destination and weight. Online es... View more info
By: ABKHAZI, Peggy
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Victoria, B. C., Sono Nis Press: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30345
ISBN: 0919462898
Condition: VG
While in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, the British author kept a journal which records the routine of camp life. Edited and with an introduction by S.W. Jackman. 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Interior is bright and clean. Bookplate to the half-title page. Otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding, very faint crease to the spine. Card wrappers are sun-darkened. Unpacked weight, 297g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weig... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Fine Arts Press: 1998
Edition: Issue 20
Seller ID: 047707
Condition: Fine
Single issue of a high-quality quarterly journal focused on Asian Art - this issue featuring Asian Art in the United States. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and in b&w, advertising. Bright, fresh, unmarked copy, just about 'as new'. Weight, 452g. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: At Sea, Admiral Oriental Line. S. S. President McKinley: 1927
Edition: Vol 1, No 10
Seller ID: 856
Condition: Fine
Published on-board the S. S. President McKinley nearing the end of a Voyage from Seattle to Yokohama, Japan. The S. S. President McKinleywas launched in 1921 - 14,123 grt, 535 ft long. Eight leaves, printed on one side of thr page only. Typewritten then mechanically produced. World News - Shipboard News - Who's On Board - Debarkation procedures. Some illustrations. Bright, clean and unmarked. Nover folded. Unpacked weight, 45g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. Images available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N/P, n/a:
Edition: Not Stated
Seller ID: 13296
Condition: About Fine
History of Afhanistan. Very recent publication. Cover/titles in English but ALL text in Arabic language. Bright, clean copy. Weight, 406g. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Tokyo, Published for "Aireview" [by] Kanto¯-sha: 1958
Edition: Third Edition of English Text
Seller ID: 23431
Condition: Near Fine
Japanese military aircraft in the Pacific War. This is Volume 1 - the text in English. Volume 2 is the same but text in Japanese. OCLC Number:4414948. 127pp, not illustrated, 8pp adverts, one folding plate at back, front endpaper map. Bright, clean and unmarked. No wear to the cloth. Weight, 291g. Lettermailable where permitted. View more info
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1966
Edition: Volume 87, No. 16
Seller ID: 039723
Condition: VG
Issue of Time with portrait of Vietnamese Buddhist monk and politician, Thich Tri Quang on the front cover, artwork by Boris Chaliapin. This is the Canadian Edition. Same editorial content as U. S. edition with added Canadian news. 84p. Clean bright wraps, sound stapled binding. Good solid copy with address label to front, lower left corner. Weight, 162g. View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1962
Edition: Vol. LXXIX, No. 8
Seller ID: 053441
Condition: About VG
Cover features portrait of Japanese Industrialist, Konosuke Matsushita. Portrait by Nampu Hatayama. Canada edition - same content as USA edition but scarcer, plus Canadian news. Large issue, 84pp. Bright and clean copy -attractive portrait of Matsushita. Sound binding. Address label to bottom, outside corner. No creases. Minor wear to spine. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weighs 165g and qualifies for inexpensive Lettermail postage within Canada. View more info
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1964
Edition: Volume 83, No. 26
Seller ID: 039724
Condition: VG
Issue of Time with artist Artzybasheff's impression of General Kong Le of Laos, on the front cover. This is the Canadian Edition. Same editorial content as U. S. edition with added Canadian news. 68pp. Clean bright wraps, sound stapled binding. Good solid copy without an address label. Weight, 130g. View more info
By: ALLAN, Ted; GORDON, Sydney
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada, Dundurn Press Ltd: 2009
Edition: Rerint of 1952
Seller ID: 25145
ISBN: 1770703993
Condition: About 'As New'
'The Scalpel, the Sword' celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner for socialized medicine, and communist. First published in 1952. Here reporinted in the 'Voyageur Classics' series. 368pp, a few photo illustrations. Bright, clean, freshg and unmarked copy - about 'as new'. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Weight, 480g. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates... View more info
By: ALLAN, Ted; GORDON, Sydney
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1952
Edition: First Edition, Second Impression
Seller ID: 1374
Condition: Near Fine
Biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted communist. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline surgeon supporting the democratically elected Republican government during the Spanish Civil War. But it was his service with the Communist Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War that would earn him enduring acclaim. xiv, 336pp, photo frontis. Book is bright and clean, and except for a previous owner's details to the ffep is unmarked. Tight, square binding, sound hinges, no wear to the cloth.The unclipped dust... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones Company: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10525
Condition: Good VG
Volume based on a series of lectures delivered by the author at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. Valuable for its insightful understanding of modern Japan. 178pp, illustrated. Bright copy internally with a little browning to endpapers only. Very sound binding and attractive boards. Dustjacket, in brodart, has only minor edge wear but with rubbing to back panel. Weight, 754g. View more info
By: ANON
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hanoi, Foreign Languages Publishing House: 1966
Edition: Not Stated
Seller ID: 11524
Condition: Good +
Vietnamese, anti-American pamphlet on the subject of the American use of poison gases in war. 36pp, photo illustrated. Clean copy with a sound binding. Crease down center where pamphlet once folded. Weight, 37g. View more info
By: ANON
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Beijing, Publisher Unknown: 1972
Edition: First [assumed]
Seller ID: 18013
Condition: Near Fine
Book of high quality illustrations of classic Chinese art and artifacts. Chinese language text only, including titles [roughly translated above]. 152pp, profusely illustrated with very high quality plates and b&w and in color [tipped-in]. Bright, clean interior, unmarked. Very sound binding. No wear to cloth boards with are in a protective plastic cover [original to publication?]. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weighs 2kg View more info
By: ANON
Price: $50.00
Publisher: India,
Edition: Not Stated
Seller ID: 036059
Condition: Very Good
Older book originating in India, being selections from, and Commentaries on, Hindi Religious Vedas. Text in boldly printed Hindi. Strongly bound by a Bookbinder in Simla, using black cloth at spine and corners and marbled boards. Undated, circa mid or early 19th century. Weight, 800g. Please email for scans. View more info
By: ANON
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Tokyo, Committee on International Friendship Among Children in Japan: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 037809
Condition: Good Very Good
Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Japanese style. Original, plain light blue wrappers with pink titles on slip of paper pasted to front. Later, library bound into stilff red card covers. Printed in English by the Herald of Tokyo. 44pp, photo illustrated, 2pp musical notation. Bright, clean and unmarked. Weight, 102g. View more info
By: ANON
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Tsingtao [Qingdao] China, Publisher Unknown:
Seller ID: 052902
Condition: VG
Real Photo Postcard, no publisher or photographer shown. Illustrates a group of boys & men holding a large banner stating 'Camp Tsingtao'. Postally unused, but, on the back ink writing states - '60 Boys, 16 Nationalities, First to Use the Chinese YMCA Campsite at Tsingtao'. A fair amopunt of Album marks on the mark partly obscure the writing, but, these can be removed with care. We ship from both Canada and the United States with very competitive rates. Inexpensive Lettermail rates will apply. View more info
By: ARMY, U. S.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Canada, Army Bureau of Current Affairs: 1944
Edition: Canadian Printing
Seller ID: 30057
Condition: About Fine
Canadian printing, November 1944. To orientate Allied troops to the Japanese people and culture as the Allies intensify their actions in the Pacific theatre. 16pp. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Staples somewhat rusty, otherwise near mint. Weight, 20g. View more info
