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1stedn; 4to 25 cm tan cloth, slipcover, thick onionskin dj missing about one inch at top of spine, ow appears unread NF/vgdj: 10+300, v pages; this is the hardcover true first edn very rare handwritten text stereoprinted; OCLC#21266592
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Late Qing secret society materials (Japanese Book)/Shinmatsu no himitsu kessha. Shiryō hen / Qing mo mi mi jie she 清沫秘密結社
by Sasaki, Masaya [ed]/佐々木正哉編
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Gourds of the Southeastern Indians: A Prolegomenon on the Lagenaria Gourd in the Culture of the Southeastern Indians
by Speck, Frank
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First Edition. 8vo Original brown cloth binding with dark brown lettering and gourd blindstamp to fntcvr. First in a series of monographs on the ethnography of the gourd. very slight rubbing to spine ends, ow NF/ndj as publ: 113pp, frontis, index, bibl, many line illus in text, a few bw plates; classic ethnology on uncommon subject; signed ded to fep dated July 13, 1941
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I'll Gather My Geese
by Stillwell, Hallie Crawford
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8vo brown cloth covered boards w/gilt & black lettering, dj light brown w/wht-black lettering & w/pictorial front. NF/nfdj: xii + 155 pages with photographs. The story of Hallie Crawford, who in 1916 went to teach school in Presidio, across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga, Mexico. In 1918 she moved to her new home, the Stillwell Ranch w/her husband, Roy Stillwell, & adjusted to the new life-style. Her story is the story of pioneering ranching in Texas. This work is the biography of a Texas woman and the difficulties she faced when she moved to Stillwell Ranch in 1918. The ranch and its inhabitants survived two world wars, the depression, droughts, an influenza epidemic, as well as the troubles of ranching in the Big Bend country.
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing From Imperial China/: Translated by author with annotations and introduction by Richard E. Strassberg
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lg8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles, PO Prof Jack Wills signed to fep with his underlining and notes in text, ow VG/vgdj: xxv, [2] map, 580pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary of chinchars. Illustrated paintings, portraits, maps and drawings in 64 b&w figures. An offprint copy of Prof Wills review of this book from The China Quarterly with additional afterthoughts in his handwriting is tucked in; Acclaimed as the only comprehensive collection to date in English of Chinese travel writing from the 1st-19th centuries, from Professor of Chinese at UCLA/ASSOCIATION: John E. Wills, Jr. 1936-2017, Longtime USC China Studies Professor was PO of this volume and has signed his full name to fep; this is probably the copy from which he wrote his review for The China Quarterly which is tucked in. Wills was a prolific scholar of works on relations between China and the West during the age of exploration; his book on the Ming-Qing transition period entitled 1688: A Global History. is now a classic
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