Category: Asia

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 189 pages, maps, photos.
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Folk Crafts in Thailand: A Study of Folk Crafts in Thailand Wickerwork in Central Provinces

By: Kongkananda, Manote

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bangkok, Thailand, National Committee on Culture : 1996

Seller ID: 111401

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 159 pages; many b&w photos. Bumped at top of spine.
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Plant Hunting in Nepal

By: Lancaster, Roy

Price: $36.95

Publisher: London, Croom Helm : 1981

Seller ID: 100010

ISBN-13: 9780709916062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library book with usual marks, stamps, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and unmarked. Many illustrations some in color, 193 pages, plant index, general index.
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Temples of Gold: Seven Centuries of Thai Buddhist Paintings

By: Leksukhum, Santi;

Price: $175.00

Publisher: George Braziller Inc. : 2000

Seller ID: 149181

ISBN-13: 9780807614761

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition, as new with deep red covers and gilt print in very large format. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy, glossy paper Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 263 pages with large full color photos throughout with sections on the school of Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Rattanakosin (1st and 2nd periods) the ddhas of the past, Ten great Jatakas, The Buddha, Personas of high rank, Secondary persons; with a map, notes, bibliog...
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Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem

By: Lewis, Reina

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Rutgers : 2004

Seller ID: 154558

ISBN-13: 9780813535432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, save one page with two small pen marks. 297 pages, 20 illustrations in b&w, Chaptes include: Harem traveller, Harem: the limits of emancipation, Eroticised bodies: representing other women, Photography, pleasure and cross-cultural dressing, etc.
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The Iron Bowl Blues and Other Peeks Behind the Bamboo Curtain

By: Maartman, Ben

Price: $13.26

Publisher: Errington, BC, Canada, Fogducker's Press : 1989

Seller ID: 111375

ISBN-13: 9780969404002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Appears new, very clean copy. Signed by author under his bio.
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To Caucasus: The End of all the Earth: An Illustrated Companion to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia

By: MacLean, Fitzroy

Price: $42.50

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : 1976

Seller ID: 153639

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition with dark green HB covers, tinted upper page ends, illustrated endpapers, heavily illustrated throughout with color and b&w photos, maps, Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Contents include: Yermolov and Paskevich, The Irmam Shamyl, Count Vorontsov, Guerilla war, Prisoners of Shamyl, Alexander Baryatinski, Tbilisi, Georgia, Northern Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, etc.
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Angkor - Splendors of the Khmer Civilization

By: Marilia Albanese

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Asia Books Co. Ltd. : 1996

Seller ID: 143283

ISBN-13: 9788880958390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 295 pages, packed with color photos, charts, maps floorplans of temples. An impressive introduction to the area.
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Religious Culture in Korea

By: Ministry of Culture and Sports, Republic of Korea

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Elizabeth, NJ, Hollym : 1996

Seller ID: 115157

ISBN: 0565910842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 134 pages. Full light blue cloth covers. Color photos.
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Acts and scenes : Western drama in Korean Theater

By: Miy He, Kim;

Price: $36.95

Publisher: Hollym : 2013

Seller ID: 131949

ISBN-13: 9781565913349

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Brand new book dust jacket in excellent condition in every respect. Book #8 in the Contemporary Korean arts series from the Arts council Korea. Contents include Co-existence of Sinpa theater and Singeuk movement, Contributions of university theater, Wester play perfomred by the National Theater of Korea, Overflow of American contemporary plays, Formation of coterie theater companies and their repertoires, Little theater movement, Belated reception of Bertolt Brecht etc. Many color and b&w prints.
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Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology

By: Morris, Ivan (ed.)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Tuttle : 2005

Seller ID: 152403

ISBN-13: 9780804833363

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition, though one story, (6 pages) is heavily marked in pen. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name and sticker in front section of the book.
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One Foot in Laos

By: Murphy, Dervla

Price: $24.95

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1999

Seller ID: 114767

ISBN-13: 9780719559693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 284 pages.
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Kiyonaga, (Masterworks of Ukiyo-e)

By: Narazaki, Muneshige; Torii, Kiyonaga

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Kodansha International : 1969

Seller ID: 150481

ISBN-13: 9780870110993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Book shows light shelf wear with the binding sewing showing through between pgs. 40 & 41. Binding is still solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with into to page 20, full color plates with captions through the remainder to page 88; 73 color plates of the Edo period, featuring beautiful women in colorful patterned kimonos, courtesans of the Yoshiwara Gay quarters, young girls, smoking opium, Kabuki actors in their private life from the theater, drinking sake with teahouse girls, geisha, etc.
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Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago

By: Navjot S. Sodhi, Greg Acciaioli, Maribeth Erb and Alan Khee-Jin Tan

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Cambridge : 2007

Seller ID: 130791

ISBN-13: 9780521870214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. 478 pages, charts, graphs, maps. No marking of any kind to text/interior.
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Life in Vietnam: Dreams of America

By: Nguyen Vi Vi

Price: $5.98

Publisher: NVB LLC : 2014

Seller ID: 144081

ISBN-13: 9781502362551

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 194 pages, map at front.
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Korean Intangible Cultural Properties: Folk Dramas, Games, and Rites

By: No Author Listed

Price: $44.50

Publisher: Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.A., Hollym Intl : 2001

Seller ID: 111482

ISBN-13: 9781565911642

Binding: Oversize Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

Price-clipped dust jacket. Tear on dust jacket at top of spine. 184 pages.
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Over the High Passes: A Year in the Himalayas with the Migratory Gaddi Shepherds

By: Noble, Christina

Price: $46.95

Publisher: Collins : 1987

Seller ID: 111947

ISBN-13: 9780002177894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 208 pages, two sections of full-page b&w photos, maps. The two-page map between the title page and the table of contents has been neatly highlighted, though this is the only marking in the book. Glossary and bibliography at the end.
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Musics of Vietnam

By: Pham Duy

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press : 1975

Seller ID: 124150

ISBN-13: 9780809306442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 161pages. Pham Duy begins with a discussion of the four main groups of Vietnam: the Troung Son tribes, the North Vietnamese of the highlands, the descendants of the Champa tribes, and the South Vietnamese. He describes various musical instruments unique to certain regions, such as the bamboo xylophone called "dan to rung," the bamboo sound box called "the Roding," the calabash-shell-and -bamboo mouth organ called "Nboat," and many others. He then explains the musical structure indigenous...
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The Disposessed: Victims of Development in Asia

By: Raina, Vinod; Chowdhury, Aditi; Chowdhury, Sumit

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Arena Press : 1999

Seller ID: 117172

ISBN: 9627156121

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 484 pages.
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