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1st Edition, 8vo wine cloth bds hardcover in dust jacket with light wear. VG/vgdj: xi+122pp; Translated from the Japanese by Charles Dunn. FROM THE PUBLISHER: two best-selling stories by Takeshi Kaiko, a popular contemporary Japanese writer deal with a theme often found in Kaiko's work: the plight of the individual struggling against the overwhelming pressures of the system. Panic, written in 1957, relates the story of Shunsuke, a hardworking young bureaucrat, as he tries to steer his own course through a corrupt world of officialdom. An employee of the forestry department of a local government, Shunsuke predicts a plague of rats and submits a detailed report outlining countermeasures against the pending disaster. First the report is snubbed; then, when the plague becomes reality and the town begins to panic, Shunsuke's superiors react in stereotypically bungling bureaucratic fashion. The Runaway, published 1959 two years after Panic, is set in Ch'in/Qin China in the third century B.C., a brief… Read More

8vo illus Tan wraps. 6 ¼ in. x 10 in. stapled, unread NF: 36pp. Reprint of Prof Egyptology London Univ lecture "Delivered at University College London 29 May 1947."

8vo red cloth gtilt titles appears unread VG/vgdj; xxv+265pp+ca 65pp of ads for Vaccari works on Japanese, stroke count index; SIGN ded to J M Reeves by Oreste and Elisa Vaccari dated Tokyo 1 Sep 1963; Namecard of author tucked in; includes seal forms of characters and narratives of form and meaning

8vo blue cloth, gilt spine titles now dimmed, rubbed at spine ends, shelfwear ow VG/ndj: xiv+327pp, index, illus, maps; author has seen port grow from questionable value situated on Jackass Prairie in 1936 to present day; scarce/unique

1stedn; 3rdptg (Revised Edition), 4to blue cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Green unclipt DJ with white lettering a few tatters to edges. Sewn binding. PO Jack Wills sign to fep ow appears unread, clean text VG/vgdj: xx +662 pages, with 12-page appendix of verb forms, bibliography, and index. 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. 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.