CHINA from Andrew Barnes Booksellers

Pacific Palisades: Goodyear Publishing, 1976. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xii + 244pp., text ills., maps, appendix, bibliog., "This book presents a view of the People's Republic of China as the cumulative product of evolutionary change, from the Neolithic foundations of the early Bronze Age civilisation, through the eras of feudalism and empire,… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Museum of Chinese Australian History, 1979. 1st edition. Very nice copy. small quarto. softback with stiff wrappers xviii + 423pp., b/w plates, maps, index, Proceedings of an international public conference held at the Museum Of Chinese History Melbourne 8 -10 October 1993. The historical archaeology of Chinese involvement in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2011. 1st edition. As New. octavo. softback with french flaps 161pp., colour plates, appendix, An illustrated introduction to artifacts preserved from different periods of Chinese history on ChinaÕs vast territory

London: Allen & Unwin, 1943. 2nd imp.. Very Good. octavo. hardback in original cloth 184pp., b/w plates, maps, Autobiography of a young Chinese woman who grew up in village China, threw off the confines of her home, unbound her feet, and joined the Revolutionary Army. Neat ownership details & rather worn green cloth boards. Uncommon

Hong Kong: Hong Kong U. P., 2012. 1st edition / 1st printing. As New. small quarto. hardback with dust jacket xiv + 525pp., colour & b/w plates, ep maps, index, The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography collects in one volume more than 500 specially commissioned entries on men and women from Hong Kong history. Ninety contributors, including… Read more about this item

Washington: Chinese Institute in America, 1976. 1st edition. Nice copy. small quarto. cloth binding 98pp., b/w plates, bibliog., Covers Wooden utensils, Bamboo, Cotton fabric, Leather, Pewter & Silver. Nicely bound in orange cloth retaining original printed wrappers

Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005. 2nd edition. As New. small quarto. softback with stiff wrappers 128pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, bibliog., index, Well-produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1977. 2nd edition. Very nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 561pp., illusts., This novel was originally published as The Builders in 1964

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 236pp., colour illusts., This novel was written during the 1930s. It has also been translated as The Rickshaw Boy

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980. 3rd edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 479pp., frontis., illusts., A novel centring on the life of two peasant families in Northern China against the background of the struggles waged by the Chinese people against imperialism & feudalism during the first three decades of the century

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. 3rd edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket ii + 613pp., b/w plates, A stirring story about patriotic students in Peking from the time of the Japanese occupation of the North-east in 1931, to the upsurge of the student movement in 1935 on the eve of the War of… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1957. 1st edition. Very nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket xiv + 245pp., colour frontis., The biography of Empress Wu Tsertien, who, in the seventh century became the Empress of China. Once the mistress of the Emperor Taitsung, who through charm, despotic use of power, murder, up to and including her own children… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 2008. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xlvii + 763pp., colour & b/w plates, maps & plans, notes, appends., bibliog., index, "No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction.… Read more about this item

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001. 4th printing. Nice copy. octavo. laminated boards 7 + 241pp., b/w plates, Nice copy of the fourth printing

Hong Kong: SCMP, 1979. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket viii + 162pp., colour & b/w plates, map, references,

Hong Kong: Postmaster General, 1991. 1st edition. As New. quarto. laminated boards 106pp., colour plates, stamps, Includes 100 original stamps & sheets. Neat ownership details o/w Ôas newÕ. Presented in original decorated cloth slip-case as issued. Scarce, especially in this condition

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, c.1980. 1st ed. thus. Very nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket xii + 336pp., fldg frontis., b/w plates, b/w plates, text ills., fldg. map, bibliog., index, Facsimile of the 1928 edition

Beijing: Arts and Photography Publishing, 1993/94. 1st edition. As New. quarto. softback with dust jacket 93pp., b/w plates, Fine photographic account. Dual text ENGLISH / CHINESE

Melbourne: Indonesian Arts Society, 1991. 1st ed. thus. As New. small quarto. softback with stiff wrappers 47 + (24)pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., map, bibliog., Fine exhibition catalogue. Small print run & scarce

London: Cape, 1972. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo.. hardback in original cloth 615pp., b/w plates, ep maps, index, Part one is a fine analysis of the first cultural revolution in 1919 & its aftermath up to the Long March; second part deals with the war against Japan & the rise of Mao