Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Large album of 60 photographic plates printed on thick paper, published to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, edited by Sakata Yataro, and distributed as a sort of propaganda targeted at a Japanese audience, the plates depicting scenes including the Mukden or..... More
Commercial souvenir album of 120 gelatin silver prints, each 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in., of Peking, with printed captions identifying the subjects, the first 98 photos primarily concerned with architecture and ornament, providing detailed exterior views of the city's most famous sites including The Temple of Heaven, the Universal..... More
![Chuzhoe nebo [Foreign Sky]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50515.jpeg?v=1582572188)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 66, [6] pp. Publisher's ads on p. [72]. About very good. A rare re-edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1912 collection of poems “Foreign Sky.” Published as part of a series of collected works that included..... More
![Zhemchuga [Pearls]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50516.jpeg?v=1582572189)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 135 pp. About very good. A rare edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1910 collection of poems “Pearls” (Zhemchuga). With a new preface by I. Putsiato. The volume was published as part of a series of..... More
VIII, 71 pp. text on the ancient Chinese bronze mirrors in the collection of the Hanoi Museum, including examples from the Han through Ts'ing dynasties, as well as others from Japan and Siam, with appendices, bibliography, and illus. on 71 plates. 4to. Wrpps., edges somewhat rubbed. Paris (Ecole Française D'Extreme-Orient)..... More
![Povest’ ob odnoi materi [A story of one mother]. Zhemchiuzhnaia, inaida Nikolaevna](/pictures/thumb/P002663.jpg?v=1580499143)
Tientsin (N. China): “Nashe znanie”, [1939]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 131, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. An example of White émigré literary production in China, this epistolary novel was written by the novelist and memoirist Zinaida Zhemchiuzhnaia (1887-1961). The novel tells the story of..... More
4 vols., facsimile edition of the 17th century work from the Ten Bamboo Studio showcasing a variety of paper samples with original colorful woodblock decoration, augmented with the gonghua technique of blindstamping and printed in multiple colors, decorative motifs include flowers and trees, vases, furniture, landscapes, butterflies, animals, and figures..... More