Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Young. Doko is only a simple basket. It is not only grain from the field that he carries--he has also carried his master's child, and wood for the fire. He was there when the child became a man and married. And he very nearly had to carry the grandfather away forever. Luckily, someone wise beyond their years spoke up and made it possible for Doko to carry the grandfather home again instead. As ever, Ed Young has taken a simple fable and made it into a masterpiece of stunning illustration and expert storytelling. This beautiful and unique book celebrates the generations with great originality.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, Revised Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Revised Edition of a book first published in 1990 in London. 204 pages illustrated with detailed color and b&w photographs. Court fashion of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, hundreds of lots illustrated in color.

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, photographs throughout with English and Chinese text. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead and Company, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket issued. Light sunning and small tears to edges of spine. Slight stain to front cover. Faint foxing to end papers and title page.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Bonhams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages illustrated in color. Auction catalogue for Bonhams Hong Kong 29 May 2023 Sale 28699, Lots 101 - 183. Text in English/Chinese. Printed in Hong Kong. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, International Harvester Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with light yellow lettering on front cover, 259 pages, b&w photos. A report by the International Harvester Company that followed a trip to China. The Chinese government invited 25 American firms to help advance the country's agriculture programs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. East Sussex, UK, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Over 180 black & white photographs. Isabella Bird was one of the 19th century's most remarkable women explorers. Her global travels and subsequent books made her famous, and led to her becoming one of the first female members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1891. This book celebrates her achievements of Isabella Bird with a beautiful pictorial record of her last great journey through China in the closing years of the 19th century, with supporting text by travel photography expert Debbie Ireland. The highlight of her visit was journeying by boat and sedan chair to make a major tour of the valley of the Yangtze River and much beyond, right up to the border with Tibet.

Hardcover. New York, The New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. In nice shape, Dust jacket unclipped, has just a touch of age yellow. Edges show a little soil (shelfwear). Binding very tight, clean inside. Very good condition.

Hardcover. GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Red cloth-covered boards with mounted color plate on front panel.Kyungwoo Chun, born in Korea in 1969 and now based in Germany, is known for his poetically blurred long exposure photographic portraits. Chun's last name means "thousand," and derives from a Chinese general who emigrated to Korea 407 years ago. For this project, Chun photographed thousands of people in China with his last name.

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 89 pages. FRENCH TEXT. A pictorial documentary on the great interior of China and it's people, color and b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages. Hardcover. White cloth covers with brown lettering. INSCRIBED by co-author Chang on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages, white cloth covers with brown lettering. INSCRIBED BY CHIANG, one of the editors, on the half-title page. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages. Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)-a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of the state's prestigious civil service examinations. Nor was Chu's influence limited to China. In Korea and Japan as well, his teachings defined the terms of scholarly debate and served as the foundation for state ideology. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 113 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by James McMullan throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. McMullan explained, "In my late seventies I decided to organize my memories of my childhood before and during the Second World War into a coherent narrative. The tension of our lives when the Japanese army took over our town in China and the subsequent anxieties of traveling from country to country with my mother has imprinted the incidents of those years into my memory with an enduring lucidity that defies the otherwise fading recall of my aging mind."

London, Athlone Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Clean otherwise.

Hardcover. New York/Milano, Skira, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, duotone photographs taken between 1904 and 1914 by a missionary working in China. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Leone Nani (1880-1935) lived in central China from 1904 to 1914. His missionary work took him to remote villages where he captured a world beyond the reach of other Westerners. Working in large format (mostly on glass plates he developed and printed himself in his mobile studio), Nani portrayed young couples, dignitaries, peasants and artisans. Equally gifted as an observer and reporter, he recorded everyday life scenes, religious ceremonies, architecture, and landscapes. 

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Drawing on the scholarship of folklore, historiography, and literary anthropology, this study traces the evolution of one of China's most enduring and controversial madmen, the legendary southern poet Ch'u Yuan, whose suicide by drowning is still commemorated annually in the colourful Dragon Boat festival. Light pen underlining to several pages of Intoduction, small name on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with short wrap-around dust jacket. 400 color photos. This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China's present day rise as a global power as told through the Magnum photo agency's legendary photographs. Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an in-depth photographic account of China, its people, and the changes they have witnessed over the last nine decades.Featuring an outstanding selection of photographs, Magnum China is a thorough illustrated history of a vast, enigmatic country, fascinating for China-watchers and novices alike.Chronologically organized into four parts, charting the history of China from 1933 to the present day, Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the featured work and group selections that curate individual photographs to illustrate the diverse state of China. Each part also features an introduction by respected scholar Jonathan Fenby, as well as "key dates" timelines and lists of the photographers' travels, setting the socio-political and historical context for the photography on show. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 311 pages, 2 b&w fold-out maps in rear. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 168 pages color illustrations. 117 lots, text in English and Chinese. Unusual fold-out cover.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape /Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages. Decorated cloth with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on spine. A French doctor's account of Chinese life & civilization, based on his twenty years of life, work & travel there; he was Director of the Imperial School of Medicine at Chengtufu. Typically patronizing and moralistic; the author credits China with having been great in the past, but now in the grip of a profound lassitude, only to be helped by Europeans. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. Previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Warren CT, Floating World Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, color plates. Chinese scholar's stones, variously called "viewing stones," "spirit stones," "respect stones, (gongshi)," and even "weird rocks, (guaishi)," have been appreciated and written about in China for more than a millennium. Through descriptions and color photographs, Modern Chinese Scholars' Rocks introduces over 40 stone types, including their mineral compositions, typical colors, hardness on the Mohr scale, and where they are found or quarried. The qualities for which they are valued are explained as are other features for the stone connoisseur to look for. Clean, bright copy. No markings.