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$40.00
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Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination


CHIN, TAMARA T

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 363pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2014

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity Han dynasty imperialism literature economics commerce

$40.00
1h51a/21

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia


STRICKMANN, MICHEL & FAURE, BERNARD (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 218pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature history literary religion religoin religious divination prophecy

$40.00
1h51a/22

The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China


SZONYI, MICHAEL

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 303pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperialism politics political government Ming dynasty military

$47.50
1h51a/23

The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals


NIVISON, DAVID S

Quarto, illus light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 293pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Airiti Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history historical text bamboo annals

$48.50
1h51a/24

The Franklin D Murphy Lectures IX: Three Alternative Histories of Chinese Painting


CAHILL, JAMES

Imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 112pp, illus, Near FINE (sl rubbing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: University of Kansas / Spencer Museum of Art 19888

KEYWORDS: Franklin D Murphy lectures China Chinese art painting history landscapes

$70.00
1f2a/2

Rugby: A New Zealand History


PALENSKI, RON

Quarto, illus heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine, viii + 451pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history rugby union ABs All Blacks Ron Palenski grass roots international

$60.00
1f2a/3

China Before China


FISKESJO, MAGNUS & XINGCAN, CHEN

Imperial octavo, illus stiffened boards, white lettering to red suede-effect spine, printed/illus eps, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 2004

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history artefacts collections antiquities

$48.50
1f2a/4

Asia Inside Out: Changing Times


TAGLIACOZZO, ERIC (Ed) & SIU, HELEN F (Ed) & PERDUE, PETER C (Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 325pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture

$48.50
1f2a/5

Asia Inside Out: Connected Places


TAGLIACOZZO, ERIC (Ed) & SIU, HELEN F (Ed) & PERDUE, PETER C (Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 418pp, illus, VG+ (spine warped & lightly bruised, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture geopolitics

$50.00
1f2a/6

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty


LEWIS, MARK EDWARD

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, grey gilt lettering to black buckram spine, unpaginated prelims + 356pp, illus, VG+ (spine lightly warped & bruised) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history tang dynasty antiquity

$95.00
1f2a/9

A History of Chinese Philosphy (2 Vol Set)


YU-LAN, FUNG & BODDE, DERK (Trans)

2 VOL SET, octavo, grey light card covers, blue & black lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxiv + 455pp, vol 2- xxv + 783pp, VG+ (light creasing to spines & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, single moderate crack to central gutter of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: Princeton Universtiy Press 1983

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history philosophy classical studies oriental historical antiquity

$100.00
1f2a/10

Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire


DE CRESPIGNY, RAFE

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xv + 630pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine, light curling & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm label to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University 1984

KEYWORDS: China Chinese han dynasty empire antiquity ancient history

$80.00
1f2a/11

Historians of China and Japan


BEASLEY, W G (Ed) & PULLEYBLANK, E G (Ed)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, viii + 351pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Japanese historians history historiography Asia

$40.00
1f2a/12

Under the Brilliant Emperor


HERBERT, P A

Super octavo, white light card covers, black & orange lettering to spine & front cover, vi + 156pp, VG (light fading & creasing to spine, light curling to cover edges, light soiling/discolouration to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: T'ang tang dynasty China Chinese ancient history Chang Chiu-ling literature imperial authority imperialism

$37.50
xxsck214809

The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume I: The Visigothic Invasion


HODGKIN, THOMAS & HEATHER, PETER (Intro)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2000

KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire visigoths invasions antiquity barbarians

$37.50
xxsck214810

The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume II: The Huns and the Vandals


HODGKIN, THOMAS & HEATHER, PETER (Intro)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2000

KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire invasions antiquity huns vandals barbarians

$37.50
xxsck214811

The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume VIII: The Frankish Empire 774-814


HODGKIN, THOMAS & HEATHER, PETER (Intro)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2005

KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire invasions antiquity barbarians Franks Frankish

$22.50
xxsck214814

Check to Your King


HYDE, ROBIN

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1960

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Charles Baron de Thierry biography biographies sovereignty

$9.00
xxsck214818

Fragments From a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History


KIDMAN, JOANNA et al

Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2022

KEYWORDS: BWB texts series New Zealand authors writers literature Joanna Kidman history

$16.50
xxscn214826

Women Writers of New Zealand 1932-1982


HAYWARD, MARGARET (Ed) & COWLEY, JOY (Ed)

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Colonial Associates 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors women history portraits biographies

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