The situation in Asia by Lattimore, Owen

-, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown, 1949 !Fine, Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, Cover clean. No remainder marks, no shelf wear, no surprises. No dust jacket. Same day shping.!

Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown , 1949. Pencil notations on second ffep verso, else textblock is clean and tight; mapped end papers. Red cloth, lightly bumped at head and foot of spine and to the corners. Price-clipped dust jacket, chipped and worn spine extremities, worn edges and folds; mylar sleeved for safe-keeping. 244p., including index.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by (SOLD). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book club. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Yellowing. Dustwrapper rubbed with small tears. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. First? Printing. good. 23 cm, 244, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, press cuttings pasted on rear endpaper. Examines the situation in Asia in the post World War II era, giving "a brilliant description country by country, and as a whole" while noting that as of 1949 "most of Asia is out of control as far as the Western nations are concerned. "

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1949. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; no edge wear, covers extremely clean and bright, binding tight, text perfect. DJ is VERY GOOD ; some edge wear, covers very clean and bright, spine lightly sunned. Politics. Stax.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. Published in association with Atlantic Monthly Press Book. 238 pp. Beige endpapers, slightly yellowed and some foxing and stains. Light grey/white card cover with black design on front cover and black titles on spine. Slightly yellowed/stained on edges and spine. Corners bumped. Black and white DJ with orange and yellow titles and illustration. Large loss from front upper left corner. Smaller losses from top and bottom edges. General wear on edges and spine. Good+/Fair.

Boston : Little, Brown, 1949. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 244 pages; Description: 244 p. : map (on lining-papers) ; 20 cm. Subjects: Eastern question (Far East) --Asia --Politics and government.

Little, Brown and Company. First Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, toned, edge wear, chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

Boston 1949, Little. Cloth, very good, index, 243p. Covers the ruins of Empire, its heritage, legacy of World War II, nationalism & revolution, Russia's frontier in Asia, Japan is nobody's ally, war & revolution in China. China, Russia & America. Beachheads of empire. The essentials of an American policy in Asia. * Fascinating account by the foremost scholar on Mongolia, Xinkiang [Xinjiang], and China in view of the Communist take over of China. Scholarly essays. * Lattimore was a well-respected scholar who was fluent in both Chinese and Mongolian. No small feat at the time. He was also well-underwritten by some of the most famous institutions who sponsored his research and Central Asian travels. His books are authoritative, fascinating and give keen insights to the complex relationships in Central Asia, the political forces, the cultural variations of the divergent peoples and the geography. His works are a valuable resource for areas largely neglected at the time mostly because… Read More