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GUIDE-BOOK ON A TEAK WOOD CARVING DEPICTING THE LIFE STORY OF LORD BUDDHA ON DISPLAY AT THE ANCIENT CITY MUSEUM

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Samat Prakan, Thailand, Ancient City Museum: [1975]

Seller ID: P7049

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good

[131p.] Cover corners slightly worn. Text in English and Thai. (6-1/2"x4-3/4")
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A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

By: Allen, Richard

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1970

Seller ID: H11841

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good +

xi, 306p. Jacket edges scraped. Includes bibliography. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. B&w map. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")
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KOLOKASI DAN UNGKAPAN BAHASA MINANG (MINANG-KABAU COLLOCATIONS AND EXPRESSIONS)

By: Anwar, Khaidir

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Padang, Indonesia, Yayasan Pengkajian Kebudayaan Minangkabau: 1988

Seller ID: P6592

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good

152p. Name on inside front cover, cover lightly rubbed. Phrases and expressions used by the Minangkabau people of Indonesia translated into English. Scarce, only 3 located in OCLC (9/18) (8"x5-7/8")
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THE STORY OF INDIA

By: Bothwell, Jean

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co.: 1952

Seller ID: H12909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

vi, 180p. Cloth spine stained, jacket has slight moisture stain on top back edge with a few small tears to edges and folds rubbed. Explains the history and culture of India for a juvenile audience. B&w illustrations and 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")
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BUSHWHACKING AND OTHER ASIATIC TALES AND MEMORIES

By: Clifford, Hugh

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1929

Seller ID: H11519

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

x, 331p. Cover corners lightly worn and spine sunned. Sir Clifford's recollections of the people and customs of the Malay Peninsula during the last years of the 19th century where he served as a British colonial administrator. B&w illustrations and 11 b&w plates and frontispiece. (8-1/4"x5-3/8")
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DOUBLE IDENTITY: THE CHINESE IN MODERN THAILAND

By: Coughlin, Richard J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hong Kong; London, Hong Kong University Press; Oxford University Press: 1960

Seller ID: H12819

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

[xiv], 222p. Cover cloth has fade spots, jacket chipped on spine, edges and corners with edges of flaps soiled. The life and status of the Chinese minority in Thailand. Includes bibliography. B&w maps. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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BALI AND HER TEMPLES, SPECIAL ISSUE 74

By: Department of Information, Republic of Indonesia

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Djakarta, Pertjetakan Negara: 1962

Seller ID: P7772

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Good +

53p. Rubbed wrap edges chipped and wraps scraped. History and guide to the religious temples on the island of Bali, Indonesia. B&w illustrations and photographs. (8"x5-5/8")
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KOWTOW

By: Der Ling, Princess

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1929

Seller ID: H11028

Binding: Embossed cloth with gilt

Condition: Very good

[xiv], 322p. 4th printing (1932) Signed by author on half title page. Cover corners lightly worn and spine sunned. Author, lady-in-waiting to Empress Dowager Cixi of China during the Manchu dynasty, recounts her childhood. 5 green & black plates and frontispiece by S. Pinkus. (8-7/8"x5-7/8")
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THE BUREAUCRATIC ELITE OF THAILAND: A STUDY OF THEIR SOCIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS AND CAREER ADVANCEMENT PATTERN

By: Dhiravegin, Likhit

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Bangkok, Thai Khadi Research Institute: 1978

Seller ID: P7118

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

xiv, 238p. 1st printing. Bottom back corners dented, cover edges scraped, ink marks on back, top front corner torn and creased. Includes selected bibliography. (7"x5")
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THE PAGEANT OF JAPANESE HISTORY

By: Dilts, Marion May

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1947

Seller ID: H12008

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

[xviii], 418p. 2nd printing (1949). Signed by author on title page. Cover edges and spine sunned with cloth unraveling on top and bottom of spine. Includes bibliography and glossary. Foldout sheet,"Eastern Successive Contrast List" that lists corresponding Korean, Japanese, and Chinese dates and eras with characters and Arabic numerals, from the S. Murakami Oriental Fine Art Curios Shop in Tokyo on front pastedown. B&w illustrations and plates. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")
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GUIDE TO THE RAM KHAMHAENG NATIONAL MUSEUM, SUKHOTHAI

By: Diskul, M.C. Subhadradis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sukhothai, Fine Arts Department: [1964]

Seller ID: P7068

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good +

88p. Writing on front, stains to wraps and tear on top of spine. Text in English and Thai. Stapled text block. Scarce. B&w foldout map. 29 leaves of b&w photo plates. (7-1/4"x5-1/8")
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THE AFGHANISTAN STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. 4, 1993

By: Farr, Grant M.; Editor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Omaha, Nebraska, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha: 1993

Seller ID: MG1380

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

124p. Cover edges lightly worn. Includes articles on: health care in Afghanistan and of Afghans, orthopaedics in Afghanistan, childhood diarrhea beliefs among Afghan refugee mothers in Pakistan, health among San Francisco area Afghans, hypertension in Afghan immigrants in the United States, and Kabul 1978. 6 leaves of b&w photo plates Kabal: Fifteen (15) years later. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")
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THE AFGHANISTAN STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. 1, ISSUE 2

By: Farr, Grant M.; Editor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Omaha, Nebraska, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha: [1990]

Seller ID: MG1377

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

138p. Cover creased and edges worn, subscription label on back cover,bottom corner of text block bumped and creased. Includes articles on: Louis Dupree, female Afghan refugees, health care training and primary education in Afghanistan, fiction of Peregrine Hodson and Doris Lessing, educational support of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. 4 leaves of b&w plates. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")
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HONG KONG HOLIDAY

By: Hahn, Emily

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co.: 1946

Seller ID: H13233

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

[x], 305p. Cover corners worn, price clipped jacket has chips and tears to edges. Prolific journalist and novelist supplements her memoir China to Me with her life in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in the early 1940s. (7-3/4"x5-1/2")
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NONALIGNMENT AND THE AFRO-ASIAN STATES

By: Jansen, G.H.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Praeger: 1966

Seller ID: H11947

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

432p. A few pages torn, price sticker on jacket front with stain on back and tears and chips to edges. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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FORMOSA: LICENSED REVOLUTION AND THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT, 1895-1945

By: Kerr, George H.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii: 1974

Seller ID: H12942

ISBN: 082480323X

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xviii, 265p. Gift note on front endpaper, cover puckered on back bottom corner, jacket puckered with chips and tears to edges. Examines the period after China ceded Formosa to Japan in 1895 to the end of World War II when Formosa was again under the control of China. Includes bibliography. B&w maps and 4 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")
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JAPAN BEGINS AGAIN

By: Kerr, William C.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Friendship Press: 1949

Seller ID: P5908

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good +

[xii], 180p. Top back cover corner torn off, spine sunned. Christianity in post-World War II Japan. Includes bibliography. (7-1/4"x4-3/4")
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LADY NIJO'S OWN STORY: TOWAZU-GATARI, THE CANDID DIARY OF A 13TH-CENTURY JAPANESE IMPERIAL CONCUBINE

By: Lady Nijo; Translated by Wilfrid Whitehouse & Eizo Yanagisawa

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle: 1974

Seller ID: H9337

ISBN: 0804811172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

397p. 1st printing. Bookstore label on front pastedown, brown stains on top page edges, jacket corners lightly worn. Jacket design by H. Doki. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")
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