Asian History from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Times Books, 1994 1st ed. 501pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Very Good in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [small stain spot on deckle fore edge; bottom corners are bumped; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Note: Times Books, as a part of Random House, used the form of a stated first edition and a number line… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1985 book club ed. 532pp. illus. black cloth tall 8vo: Good+ in a Very Good+ dj [top & fore edges show foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A quality publisher's printing and binding sold to a book club.

New York: Harper & Bros., 1960 3rd ptg. 575pp. burgundy cloth 8vo w/gilt spine titles: near Fine in a Good dj that is price-clipped with a few edge tears, now protected in a Brodart poly cover [ink name; else nrF] A significant work by the American China scholar Barnett (1921-99), published by Harper's for the Council on Foreign Relations.

New York: Bantam, 1980 2nd ptg. 549pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A history covering China from Imperial times to the post-Mao era.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985 1st ed. 192pp. illus. brown cloth sq. sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover [a light bottom corner bump; else F] A magnificently illustrated depiction of Indian princely courts from the early Mughal emperors into the 20th century.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967 reprint. 245pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [text is completely age browned; else a nice clean, complete, tight & uncreased copy] A useful history by the Chinese-American Sinologist Houn (1920-2014).

Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1990 reissue. 274pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good [some age foxing on top & fore edges; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A popular history of the attempts of various foreign powers to penetrate the "forbidden kingdom" of Tibet.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970 reprint. 300pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges and endpp. are foxed; ink name; else a clean, complete & uncreased copy]

London: Victor Gollancz, 1955 1st ed. 305pp. hardback sm 8vo: Good+/no dj [some pencil underlining in text; some turned page corners; light corner bumps; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Based on the life stories of 10 young Japanese women related in the spring of 1953.