Search Results: AROUND THE WORLD from Monroe Bridge Books

Hawaii: Kauai Museum Association, Limited, 1979 This FIRST EDITION, hard cover is in NEW CONDITION. LIMITED, SIGNED COPY. Inscription reads "For my Grandson David Wichman, with love, Juliet Rice Wichman, Christmas 1979". This is one of 50 copies especially bound for the author. TIGHT, CLEAN COPY.

NY: Commercial Newspaper Company, 1921 "Compiled for the Purpose of Supplying American Consuls and Foreign Buyers with Reliable Information as to the character of goods produced by, and the Addresses and Trade Marks of, Prominent Manufacturers of the United States. This work, being printed in all of the generally spoken languages, is sure to be understood wherever recieved". cxxvi, 298pp, printed on fine glossy paper, with early advertising throughout, bound in blue cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1956 This SECOND EDITION, hard cover, is in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with sunning to the spine. Seems like the book has never been opened. 236 pages bound in blue cloth, with white stamped imprint design on cover. Enhanced by 4 coloured wood block plates by Hiroshige. All four extending plates have captioned tissue guards. Wonderful story of Samurai revenge. CLEAN TIGHT COPY.

Tokyo: Nakanishi-Ya, 1917 This THIRD EDITION, hard cover, is in FAIR CONDITION. The covers are detached, with front fly page detached with tears. Covers have surface grime and edge wear. Frontis is an exquisite extending wood block print in very good condition. 269 pages bound in paper over boards, with gilt stamped lettering. All other pages are intact, and liberally illustrated throughout. This is the direct translation of the play about Samurai revenge. The third edition being more complete that the previous two.

Smithmark, 1996 This OVERSIZED, FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with DJ also in NF Condition, protected ina mylar cover. 256pp includes appetizers, fish, poultry, meat, vegetables, rice, pulse, breads, chutneys, pickles, relish & desserts. WITH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. Also includes, herbs & spices, cooking equipment and cooking techniques. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. No labels, inscriptions or markings.

Duke University, 1974 This FIRST EDITION, soft cover, is in FINE CONDITION. SIGNED "With Author's Compliments". 229pp in original stiff wraps, represents a symposium on education in India held at Duke University. Contributors discuss the Institutional Environment, Schools, Additudes, Change, Politics, Culture and Education in India. TIGHT, CLEAN COPY.

Edinburgh, Scotland: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd., 1957 Scale 1:4,000,000. IN FAIR CONDITION, showing crease tears and pin holes. FOLDING MAP.

England: Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 In AS NEW CONDITION. 160pp, bound in glossy stiff wraps, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Articles include: Contradictions in U.S. Post-Cold War Security Policy in Northeast Asia, Child Labor in Japan's Coal Mines bfire WWII, A Political Message from Avante-Garde Artists in Shanghai, What Caused the Sino-Indian Border War, the CIA in China and more.

Weltevreden: Indonesian Printing Office, 1919 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. 19pp of text in English, with 36 (OF 37) chromo-lithographic plates, highlighted with gold, in a library binding, with binding and hinges tight. The Plates represent Wayang-Figures that play a part in the Javanese reproduction of the Indian Epic, the Mahabharata. The original drawings were made by the Javanese drawing master at Solo, R. Soelardi. COLORS BRIGHT. NO LIBRARY MARKINGS ON THE PLATES.

Munich: Bruckmann Munchen, 1970 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket also in VG Condition, protected in a mylar cover. 332pp, printed on fine glossy paper, illustrated throughout, binding & hinges tight. Ownership on ffp, light foxing on preliminary pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket also in Near Fine Condition, protected in a mylar cover. 245pp bound in cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. This travel writer makes a mythic journey through the Moroccan Sahara by camel and on foot.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923 This FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. 270pp includes an index, bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Includes subjects from white australasia, Indusytial experimentation to Religion, poetry, to the newspaper and gambling. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. No inscriptions.

London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1978 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Good ++ Condition, protected in a mylar cover. xiii, [1], 419pp, bound in original blue cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 This FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in NEAR FINE CONDITION. No Jacket. With an introduction by Lord Sydenham of Combe. LETTER LAID IN by Sir Gilbert Parker, Bart. dated 1915. INCLUDES A FOLDOUT MAP. 99pp bound in white cloth, with green lettering. Covers have light surface marking with light corner/edge rubbing. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. 32 color illustrations and half tone photographs, protected with captioned tissue guards. No labels or inscriptions. PAGES STILL BRIGHT

NY: Oxford University Press, 1965 Limited to 360 Copies. Unpaginated, bound in original stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. In a protective mylar sleeve. Christmas in Puerto Rico.

New York: Eaton & Mains, 1894 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. OVERSIZED, 575pp, printed on fine glossy paper, in a library binding, with binding and hinges tight. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT (chiefly from photographs). New Edition.

China Inland Mission and Presbyterian Mission Press, 1962 This is the Revised American Edition of 1962 (1931). This OVERSIZED hard cover is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. The dust jacket is in good condition, with some edge wear w/chips, protected in a mylar cover. 1229 pages bound is red cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Owners signature on front fly page - A.S. Watson. Back fly page has notes in pencil re Chinese herbs. VERY GOOD COPY. Still has the tan silk ribbon page marker.

Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 1989 1989 facsimile of the 1841 Edition. LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. Oblong format, portfolio, complete with 12 plates on glossy hardstock, with descriptive text, depicting monuments in Mexico. With a facsimile of the original title page, text in Spanish. OVERSIZED.

Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., 1958 This second edition, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. With dust jacket in fair condition, with small pieces missing, protected in a mylar cover. 84 pages, bound in creme paper & cloth, with minor edge bumps/wear. Owner name and book stamp on ffp. Frontis, with illustrations throughout, including 23 Ragmala prints from original sources Providing the principles of the present system of Indian Music, and what is behind the old legends which are full of controversies. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT.

San Diego: Grossmont Press, Inc., 1977 This FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in AS NEW CONDITION. Dust jacket is in good condition with edge wear, surface grime and one chip, protected in a mylar cover. 155 pages recalls the period when the attack on Pearl Harbor triggered an Executive Order to imprison Japanese Americans. This is their story of internment, enhanced with photographs. TIGHT, CLEAN COPY.