Peking: New World Press, [1955]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original linen-backed photo-illustrated boards, spine lettered in bright blue; 109pp.; 15 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor edge wear, else Very Good. Photographic account of the 1954 floods, which killed approximately 33,000. More

Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 25pp. Trivial external wear; a Near Fine copy. Chapbook of revolutionary poems by the prominent New Zealand communist author and sinophile. More

[London]: 1963. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white decorative staplebound card wrappers printed in blue and black; 39pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Articles include "Voices from Yuan and Ming" by the New Zealand-born member of the Communist Party of China Rewi..... More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1959. First French Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's olive green card wraps titled in black to front cover. Glassine jacket. 105pp. Folding map to rear. Clean and strong, very light marginal wear; internally clean and fresh, largely unopened. A near fine copy. A highly academic French language study..... More

Leipzig: Verlag Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1925. First Edition. Quarto (30cm); yellow cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 253pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Text in German. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with slight rubbing to cloth at board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper has shelf-wear..... More

Paris: Editions Bossard, 1921. First French Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Bound in later full institutional calf, titled in gilt to spine. 298pp.;[1]. Strong and bright, some mild scuffing and scratching of the leather in places; internally clean and fresh, edges speckled red, armorial bookplate to front flyleaf. #778 of a limitation..... More

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue, one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper, and sent with "Dear Bookseller" letters (roughly a month prior to publication) with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with..... More

Hong Kong: World Book Store, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 19cm.); publisher's blue decorative card wrappers; xviii,163pp. Wrappers a bit cockled from exposure to damp, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Text in Chinese and English throughout. Date of publication based on date of Foreword (p. xv)..... More

Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1925. First Edition. Small octavo. Original side-stapled, printed paper wrappers; pp 39-194,(3). Mild toning to page edges, still clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good or better. Resolutions and source documents relating to this series of conferences on the international opium trade, sponsored by the World Peace..... More

Ripon, CA: S.i., ca.1912-1913. A small archive of photographs and letters relating to the Marine Corps career (1909-1913) of John P. Treder, a Polish-born resident of Ripon, California. Includes 26 original (vintage) photographic prints (a few commercial, but most apparently vernacular) of scenes in China and the Philippines; three pieces..... More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards, dustjacket;187pp. Includes bibliography. Fine copy, free of markings or wear, in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. The revolutionary journalist's major work, a memoir of her twelve years as a correspondent on the front lines of both the Chinese revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War, from 1929 to 1942. Smedley (1892-1950) was a prolific left journalist and probable spy..... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937. First Edition. Two octavo volumes. Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; xxiv,169,(1) + 314 (plates). Mild bump to upper board corner of v.I, else a fine set, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrappers, lightly dusted, toned on spine panels, still attractive and Very..... More