The Chinese Translations.
New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original beige cloth. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. A volume from The Works of Witter Bynner. It includes The Jade Mountain and The Way of Life according to Laotzu.
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The Face of Asia. Introduction by Robert Shaplen.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1972. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, silvergilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w top edges very slightly rubbed. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. 120 photographs taken between 1947 and 1967 in countries including China, Japan, India, Iran, Burma, Indonesia and Mongolia.
Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine faded and covers dulled with a few scattered marks. Spine ends and corner tips bumped and worn. Endpapers and first and last sections of the book lightly foxed. Very good. Conrad's first.....
Typhoon And Other Stories.
London: William Heinemann, 1903. 8vo. First edition. Original dark grey woven cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with a life buoy device in gilt on the upper cover. Publisher's blind-stamped 'WH' monogram on rear board. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. First issue with two pages of press opinions.....
Superior Poems of Our Time. A Thirteenth-Century Poetic Treatise and Sequence. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. D/w price-clipped and slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Encounters. The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800.
London: V & A Publications, 2004. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Ten Thousand Leaves. A Translation of the Man'yoshu, Japan's premier anthology of classical poetry. Volume one.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. 8vo. First edition. Original two colour cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
A Goddess in the Stones. Travels in India.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. The author went in search of tribal India. His publisher promoted this book as the conclusion of the trilogy (begun with A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth) about South-east Asia.
The Poems of Li Ho (791-817). Translated with an Introduction by J.D. Frodsham.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a small sticker mark on the front flap. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A volume from the Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures.
The World of the Shining Prince. Court Life in Ancient Japan.
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Colour frontispiece. D/w rubbed with small loss at top corner tips and the head of the spine. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper. Uncommon.
The Tale of Genji. A Novel in Six Parts by Lady Murasaki. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. 8vo. Third impression. First published in one volume in 1935. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Six volumes in one.
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Translated and Edited by Ivan Morris.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue grey cloth, gilt. Volume 1 includes a full reproduction of the drawings in the twelfth-century Pillow Book Scroll. Volume 2 includes folding genealogical tables, drawings and maps. D/ws price-clipped. Fine in fine d/ws. Volume 2 is a......
An Anthology of Chinese Verse. Han Wei Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Translated and annotated by J.D. Frodsham with the collaboration of Ch'eng Hsi.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a short closed tear at the head of the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first volume in the Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures.
The No Plays of Japan. With Letters by Oswald Sickert.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1950. 8vo. Second edition. First published in 1921. Two black and white photographic plates. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Boxwallahs. The British in Cawnpore 1857-1901.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. This completes the history begun in Traders and Nabobs.
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