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Afro-Asian States and Their Problems, The
Afro-Asian States and Their Problems, The

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Panikkar, K.M.
Book Description: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, . Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Published in 1959, book is based upon a series of lectures delivered at the Institut d'Etude de Development Economique et Social in Paris, and discusses the problems faced by the many states in Asia and Africa which achieved independence between 1945 and 1957. Blue cloth with red titling on spine, top edge of text block is coloured. Spine and edges of cover slightly sunned, foxing on end papers, otherwise book is without flaws. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has minor edge wear and a sunned spine, but is otherwise bright and clean. 104 pages Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $10.75

Area Handbook for Thailand
Area Handbook for Thailand

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Harris, George L. Et al
Book Description: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1966. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DA Pam No. 550-53, June 1963. Book co-authored by George L. Harris, Jackson A. Giddens, Thomas E. Lux, Frederica Muhlenberg Bunge, Frances Chadwick Rintz, Rinn-Sup Shinn and Harvey H. Smith. Research and writing were completed on April 1, 1963, reprinted with minor revision August 1966. This volume is a comprehensive revision of the Area Handbook for Thailand, completed in 1957 by the Foreign Area Studies. Brown cloth with black titling on spine and front. With the exception of a slightly darkened text block edge with some pale stains or tiny spots, book appears to be without flaws. 555 pages Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $9.75

Bibliography of Asian Studies 1984
Bibliography of Asian Studies 1984

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Surdam, Wayne, Editor
Book Description: Association for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Purple cover with purple titling and colourful illustration, 357 pages. Cover has edge wear with chipping, closed tears and creasing, shelf wear, lower front edge is sunned, text is clean and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $25.00

Cooking Fish in Coconut Milk
Cooking Fish in Coconut Milk

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Sartilug, Lorenzo
Book Description: Yap State Education Enterprising Department, Colonia, Yap, FM, 1998. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original story written in satawalese by Lorenzo Sartilug of Satawal. Book is written for and dedicated to the children of Yap State, the westernmost state of the four Federated States of Micronesia. It is part of the first project developed to address a community need to enhance language and culture instruction. English translation by Gary Smith. Green glossy hard cover with black titling and illustrated colourful illustration, colourfully illustrated title page, attractive tropical watercolour images familiar to Micronesian children throughout, 32 pages. Cover has negligible shelfwear, slightly sunned spine, otherwise this very attractive book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $12.75

Dangerous Shoreline Creatures
Dangerous Shoreline Creatures

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Taweryan, Juan
Book Description: Yap State Education Enterprising Department, Colonia, Yap, FM, 1998. Pictorial Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is written for and dedicated to the children of Yap State, the westernmost state of the four Federated States of Micronesia. It is part of the first project developed to address a community need to enhance language and culture instruction. English translation by Gary Smith. Colourfully illustsrated green glossy hard cover with black titling, colourfully illustrated title page, attractive tropical watercolour images familiar to Micronesian children, including a shark, moray eel, sea snake, man-of-war, jellyfish, stonefish, stingray, lionfish, sand sea urchin, coral sea urchin, reef sea urchin, sea snail, pearl clam, etc., 28 pages. Cover has negligible shelfwear, a tiny flaw near top of spine end, slightly sunned spine, otherwise this very attractive book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $12.75

 
Excavation of Nara

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Book Description: Nara National Institute, Japan, 1968. Soft Cover. Book Condition: . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall-Oblong. Publication of the Research Association of the Nara National Instiute, 10th Anniversary. Record and photographs of the excavations at the site of the 8th Century Nara Palace at Nara, Sakicho in 1964. Yellow and red softcover, black endpapers, many black and white and several colour photographs, including of the Hayato Shields. In Japanese. Two related pamphlets are included; one with photographs about the site (8 pages, in Japanese), and a copy of the paper entitled "Hayato Shields" by Kiyotari Tsuboi from the publication "The Japanese Cultures of the Southern Areas", Tokyo 1967 (12 pages, in Japanese with English abstract) Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $35.00

History of the Northern Mariana Islands
History of the Northern Mariana Islands

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Farrell, Don A.
Book Description: Public School System, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, , 1991. Pictorial Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is inscribed by Dr. Rita Hocog Inos, Commissioner of Education, Northern Mariana Islands. Edited by Phyllis Koontz, designed and illustrated by Barry Wonenberg. Book is a history text book for high school students living in the Northern Mariana Islands, in the northern portion of Micronesia.. Pictorial cover is a collage of many black and white photographs, blue titling on front, black titling on blue ground on spine, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, a few colour illustrations, colourful maps, etc., 701 pages. Corners lightly bumped. This is a very handsome volume - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $45.00

I Can Count: English
I Can Count: English

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Yap State Education Enterprising Department
Book Description: Yap State Education Enterprising Department, Colonia, Yap, FM, 1998. Pictorial Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is written for and dedicated to the children of Yap State, the westernmost state of the four Federated States of Micronesia. It is part of the first project developed to address a community need to enhance language and culture instruction. English translation by Gary Smith. Yellow glossy hard cover with black titling and illustrated colourful numbers, colourfully illustrated title page, attractive tropical watercolour images familiar to Micronesian children, including a canoe, sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, coconut crabs, bananas, seabirds, coconuts, strangely shaped apples, butterflies, spiders, etc., 28 pages. Cover has negligible shelfwear, slightly sunned spine, a tiny pale mark on first end paper, otherwise this very attractive book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $12.75

Indonesia, Tanah Airku (Indonesia, My Homeland)Silitonga, G, R. Soekardi & S. Tambunan
Indonesia, Tanah Airku (Indonesia, My Homeland)Silitonga, G, R. Soekardi & S. Tambunan

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Book Description: N.V. Penerbitan W. Van Hoeve, Bandung, Gravenhage, 1952. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good to Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Written in Indonesian (?) or Malay(?) Colourfully illustrated blue soft cover with white and red titling on front, copiously illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Minor edge wear, more wear to spine ends and edges, light shelf wear, otherwise this handsome book is in great shape. 96 pages Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $15.00

Japanese Antique Chests
Japanese Antique Chests

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Koizumi, Kazuko
Book Description: , , . Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very unique book about antique Japanese chests written in Japanese with an English introduction. Brown card covers with black titling in Japanese characters and illustration on front and titling on spine as well. Black and white photographs and illustrations and colored photos throughout. Two light smudge marks on cover. Beautifull book. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $30.00

Over the Deep Blue Sea
Over the Deep Blue Sea

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Ikeda, Daisaku
Book Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, . Pictorial Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 4to - over 9.75"-12" Tall. Originally written in Japanese; first translated by Burton Watson; this English version by Geraldine McCaughrean. "Prejudice linked to an event from the past threatens the friendship that Akilo and her brother have made with a boy on their new island home." Colourfully illustrated pictorial cover with blue and black titling, handsome illustrations on end papers, title page and throughout book, unpaginated. Cover has minor wear to corners and spine ends, light shelf wear, ink inscription on end paper, but is otherwise in great shape. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $15.00

Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire, The
Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire, The

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Grousset, Rene,
Book Description: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964. Leather. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A history of China, professionally re-bound in leather, raised bands, gilt titling on spine, marbled end papers, illustrated with eight pages of black and white plates and two black and white maps at back. Light wear to spine ends and lower corners, spine and top inch of front cover are lightly sunned, owner's name in ink on end paper. This very handsome book is in great shape. 312 pages. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $20.00

Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. II
Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. II

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De Bary, WM. Theodore (ed)
Book Description: Columbia University Press, New York, 1958. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Introduction to Oriental Civilization: Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume II. The readings deal with political, economic, and aesthetic questions as well as religious and philosiphical speculations. This volume includes a chronological table of Indian history from 1498 to the book publishing date. Card cover, 384 pages. Light edge wear, faint smudges to text block edges. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $8.75

 
Straitjacket Society: An Insider's Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan

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Miyamoto, Masao
Book Description: Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1995. Soft Cover in Wraps. Book Condition: Very Good-. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "Straitjacket" delves beneath the surface of ready smiles and gentle manners to look at the underlying code of Japanese life, which is nowhere more aparent than i the halls of power. Blue paper covers with white titling, 196 pages plus 3 pages of publisher's advertisement. Illustrated dust jacket. light edge wear, a light green spot to top of textblock edge. The dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $16.00

Strong Tower
Strong Tower

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Broomhall, A.J.
Book Description: Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton, 1947. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Nosu are a race of people who live in the mountains of Western China. This book shares with the reader the burdens of the Nosu church and how the introduction of Christianity changed their lives. Tan cloth with red titling on spine, maps of China on end papers, black and white photographs throughout, 255 pages. Corners and edges have light wear, corners lightly bumped, small pressure mark on edge of back cover, text block edges slightly darkened. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has significant edge wear with chipping, with open tears: one-inch by one-inch at top of spine, half-inch near front edge, and a two-inch by half-inch one at top edge of back cover, but is basically clean and bright. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
Price: $12.00

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