Search Results: Korea from Catron Grant Books

New York: AMS Press, 1971 New York: AMS Press, 1971 96 pp with 25 pp og B&W drawings and three maps. Russian translation series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Vol. 1 No.1. A reprint of the original 1959 publication. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black glazed cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean and undamaged. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Duluth,MI: Pfiefer-Hamilton, 1989 225 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Twelve Soviet and Americans set out from Siberia in mid-winter 1989 on an epic trek across 1000 miles of Arctic tundra. Ultimately the Bering Bridge Expedition led to an agreement allowing free travel across the Soviet-American border for the region's native population. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, Blue cloth boards are clean and undamaged save for a little bumping to spine ends. DJ is clean, bright with some shelfwear. In mylar jacket. 3000812. Signed by Author on title Page. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Good.

IN: iUniverse, 2016 25, 119 pps. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. As New. Softcover with full-color, full-page photograph and dropped-out white type clean, tight and bright with no visible wear or damage. A dedication by author is on the fly-leaf. An African American soldier's view of the 20th century.. Dedication By Author. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. 6" x 9".

Tokyo, Japan: Teibi Publishing Co., 1910 Tokyo, Japan: Teibi Publishing Co., 1910 iv, 250 (2) pp with three B&W plates. Seventh edition. The Russo-Japanese War and the seige of Port Arthur as seen by a Japanese soldier participant. Text is tight and unmarked, with light soil on a few pages and some foxing. Grey paper boards with redcloth quarter-binding and god-stamped titles are in "good minus" condition wuth the paper flaking along the board edges. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.. Seventh Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Glavnaia Redaktsiia Vostochnoi Literatury, 1967 Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Glavnaia Redaktsiia Vostochnoi Literatury, 1967 571 pp.with B&W portrait of Roerich frontis. Title page and forward are in Russian, title page spells author's name in the Russian style "Rerikh" A series of essays in English consisting of extracts from Roerich's works on Buddhism, Central Asian linguistics and Tibetan culture. Contains: "The animal style among the nomad tribes of Northern Tibet," "Trails to Innermost Asia," Studies in the Kalacakra," "The ceremony of breaking the stone," "The epic of king Kesar of Ling," " Kun-mkhyen Chos-kyi bodzer and the origin of the Mongol alphabet," The author of the Hor-Chos-bbyun," "Les troupes alanes a l'epoque mongol, "(in French, ) "Tibetan loan-words in Mongolian," " The Blue Annals," and the "Biography of Dharmasvanin."… Read More

Bobbs Merrill, 1938 Bobbs Merrill, 1938 311 pp. A longtime resident of Japan warns of Japan's increasing culture of militarism and the power of General Jiro Minami, governor-general of Korea and in Scherer's view, the puppetmaster of behind Japan's turn to fascism and invasion of China. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookseller's sticker on front endpaper. Front hinge tender. Red cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are clean, bumped at corners. Dust jacket is bright, intact with some shelfwear along lower edge and one closed tear. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Republic of Korea, 2013 161 glossy pps. profusely illustrated with B/W and 4-color photgraphs.Text, brown textured boards with silver stamping and DJ As New. This publication was distributed to American and Korean war veterans as a gift of the Republic of South Korea.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 9" x11".

Rinehart and Co., 1957 333 pps. Some b/w line illustrations.in text. Text is clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Green cloth cover with black spine dulled.. Hard Cover. Good/No DJ. 5.75" x 8.25". BOMC.

University of Maryland Far East Division, 1972 University of Maryland Far East Division, 1972 369 pp. text is tigh and unmarked, Paper covers lightly soiled and bumped. Large Format Soft Cover. Good.. Paperback. Good.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1936 London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936 267 pp + four pp of ads. Sixteen B&W plates plus one map. Manchurian culture plus somewhat of an apology for the Japanese occupation. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Chinese bookseller's label rear endpapers. Red cloth boards are clean, undamaged with just a little bumping to extremities. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: South Manchuria Railway, 1922 New York: South Manchuria Railway, 1922 113 pp with B&W plates and a fold-out map. Written by an American, the book justifies and praises the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Tan paper boards with a tan cloth spine are clean and undamaged, front board slightly bowed. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: The John Day Company, 1934 New York: The John Day Company, 1934 311 pp with one fold-out map, and a bibliography. Owen Lattimore spent his childhood in China, his fluent command of Mongol and Chinese and his wide acquaintance with Mongol leaders made him the leading authority on Mongolia and Mongol problems. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Beige cloth boards with red stamped titles are clean, undamaged save for fading to spine. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Korea: Kei Rim Corperation, 1964 xviii, 335 pp. A concise pocket-sized dictionary plus a list of appreviations for Western governmental and NGO organizations in Korea, and a Korean alphabet. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red leatherette boards are rubbed at extremities. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Third Printing.. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968 New York: Burt Franklin, 1968 Vol.1, 675 pp, , Vol 2, 621 pp. A reprint of the 1939 edition with text in English, Russian and Japanese. A comprehensive work, over 1,300 pages, with reference to almost 14,000 works in all subjects, and a basic reference in this area. Includes extensive introductions in each volume. thick 8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; 2 volumes complete Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green cloth bindings are clean, bright, sound. Volume 1 front endpapers may have become stuck together and then pried apart at one time leaving the edges a little uneven, other then that the two volumes are "fine.". Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Office of Information for the Armed Forces Department of Defense, 1962 106 pp with color and B&W photo illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers have light soil and a stamp on them.. Softcover. Very Good. 4 1/2" x 5 1/2". Issued to Military.

New York: Longman, Green & Co., 1896 New York: Longman, Green & Co., 1896 xx1, 444 pp with color folding map bound in after text plus one map in text. B&W illustrations throughout text. This second edition was revised after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to bring the new power realities up to date. " From the preface: ".the wisest lessons for the emancipated and new, are still to be derived from the ascendency of the British character, and under the shelter, where so required of British dominion."Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Map is "as new." Dark red cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are rubbed at extremities else VG+. New and Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. New and Revised Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 Vol 1 xi + 405 pp, Foldout map bound frontis Vol. 2 ix, 536 pps. Bound in marbled paper with dark green leather quarter binding, marbled endpapers. No internal martkings save for previous owner's name on title page on both volumes. Volume 1 map is undamaged save for a closed tear where the map joins the binding. Bindings are clean and undamaged with a little rubbing to corners and spine ends. In extraordinarily good condition for their age. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quarter Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket as Published.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1905 London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1905 274 pp with numerous B&W plates. Text is tight, some comments in ink along margins, heavily foxed. One plate is repaired with tape. Black cloth boards with pastedown color illustration on front board are bumped at corners, spine ends. A journalist's account of the naval side of the Russo-Japanese War from the Japanese point of view. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.