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Burma:

Beck, Kent et al (editors) . FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1958-1960 VOLUMES XV/XVI PART 1 - BURMA, MALAYA AND SINGAPORE, EAST ASIA-PACIFIC REGION CAMBODIA - MICROFICHE SUPPLEMENT
1993 Department of State. Printed paper folder with paperback book of 92pp. plus pocket holding 22 microfiche, each in individual envelope. Depository library stamps. VG. (a82016)
$49.00 Mendelson, E. Michael, edited by John P Ferguson . SANGHA AND STATE IN BURMA: A STUDY OF MONASTIC SECTARIANISM AND LEADERSHIP
Ithaca 1975 1st Cornell. ISBN 0-8014-0875-X. Hardcover. Octavo, 400pp., blue cloth. VG, light wear on corners, spine lettering faded away, no DJ. (a81156)
$145.00 Judson, Edward . THE LIFE OF ADONIRAM JUDSON
NY 1883 1st Anson Randolph. Hardcover. Octavo, 601pp., a few illustrations, brown cloth. Owner signed. VG, light wear. (a76419)
$39.00 (prison camps) . REPORTS ON BRITISH PRISON CAMPS IN INDIA AND BURMA VISITED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS IN FEBRUARY, MARCH AND APRIL 1917
NY 1918 Doran. Octavo, 63pp., wraps. Good. (a74760)
$30.00 Griffith , Lucille (editor) . I ALWAYS WORE MY TOPI THE BURMA LETTERS OF ETHEL MABUCE 1916-1921
1974 1st University of Alabama. Edited, preface and introductions by Lucille Griffith. Methodist missionary in Burma. Hardcover. Octavo, 336pp., photo illustrations, blue cloth. VG plus, slight cover soiling, no DJ. (a70788)
$40.00 Hervey, Harry . KING COBRA AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA
NY 1927 Cosmopolitan. Sm.4to., 301pp., photo illustrations, foldout map, original printed black cloth hardcover. Owner signed. VG, no DJ. (a70572)
$44.00 Enriquez, Major C. M. F. R. G. S. (Theophilus) . A BURMESE WONDERLAND A TALE OF TRAVEL IN LOWER AND UPPER BURMA
Calcutta and Simla 1922 1st Thacker, Spink & Co. Small octavo, 265pp., photo illustrations,green cloth with gilt lettering. Author of A Burmese Enchantment, A Burmese Loneliness and many other books. One of his scarce titles. VG plus, excellent condition, cover a bit faded. (a68276)
$300.00 Stuart, Arabella W. (Mrs. M. Willson) . THE LIVES OF MRS. ANN H. JUDSON AND MRS. SARAH B JUDSON WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MRS. EMILY C. JUDSON, MISSIONARIES TO BURMAH
Auburn and Buffalo 1854 Miller Orton & Mulligan. Hardcover. Octavo, 371pp., two engraved portraits, one of Ann and one of Emily, original red cloth. Fairly Good, text clean and binding secure, a very few pages have very light foxing, cover is quite worn, some chips on spine, worn spine ends. (a67256)
$29.00 Hall, H. Fielding . THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE
London 1911 Macmillan. Originally printed in 1908. Small octavo, 314p., original gilt hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a66662)
$27.00 O'Connor, V. C. Scott . THE SILKEN EAST A RECORD OF LIFE AND TRAVEL IN BURMA 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
London 1904 1st Hutchinson. Two volumes. Large octavo, 842pp., 20 color plates, numerous photo illustrations, 2 large foldout maps (including panorama of the Ruby Mines), index, original bright blue cloth with full gilt trim. Set was in a Nunnery library and has several stamps on lower margins of initial pages, and there a residue of spine numbers on each volume. Owner bookplates (William Crozier). Good, one hinge tender, light wear. 2 volumes. (a65487)
$850.00 Howard, Randolph L. . BAPTISTS IN BURMA
Philadelphia 1931 2nd printing of first edition. Small octavo., 168pp., photo illustrations, red cloth hardcover with black picture on front cover of elephant at work. Good plus, light cover soiling. (a61619)
$55.00 Malcom, Howard . TRAVELS IN SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA: EMBRACING HINDUSTAN, MALAYA, SIAM AND CHINA; WITH NOTICES OF NUMEROUS MISSIONARY STATIONS AND A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE BURMAN EMPIRE
Philadelphia n.d. (1854) American Baptist Publication Society.Tenth American Edition. Small octavo., 432pp., plates, foldout map, original yellow end papers, original brown cloth with gilt statue figure on front and gilt decorated spine. Good, some light foxing on plates, a few small chips in cloth, corners worn. (a61500)
$100.00 Milne, Mrs. Leslie . SHANS AT HOME. WITH TWO CHAPTERS ON SHAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE BY REV. WILBUR WILLIS COCHRANE
London 1910 1st Murray. Hardcover. Octavo., 289pp., color frontis, photo illustrations, cloth. Top edge gilt. Blindstamp on title page, institution stamp and a few small numbers on verso of title page. Good, new endpapers, some stains and residue of glue from removed label on spine, stain at edge of frontis. (a58628)
$245.00 Nu, Thakin . BURMA UNDER THE JAPANESE PICTURES AND PORTRAITS
London 1954 1st macmillan. 8vo., 132pp., index, hardcover. VG, end papers and fore-edges foxed, no DJ. (a57748)
$34.00 Guggenheim, Ferdinand . INDISCHE KUNST
Dresden 1923 Reissner. Sculpture, architecture and art of India, Burma, Java. In German. Sm.8vo., 150pp., 35 abbildungen, hardcover. Good, light wear. (a52031)
$29.00 Burma . ALBUM OF 40 ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS 1877-1878
1877-1878. Album is 11-1/2 inches x 10 inches, photos range from 8x10 inches to 5x8 inches. Most photos one to a page, a few pages have two photos. Each view identified in contemporary ink manuscript. One group photo lists following names Gehrels, James and Nellie Wood, Capt. Morgan, St. John, Klusmann, Minne and Carrie Robinson, Buhmeyer. Buildings belonging to T. F. Ho and Mohr Bros shown. Scenes primarily in Bassein, Moulmein and Rangoon. Views of pagodas, towns, buildings, churches, groups of people. Unique item of definite value to students and collectors of nineteenth century Burma. Album is 3/4 leather. All edges gilt. Good, binding shaken, leather worn, leaves stained and brown but photographs are in good condition with nice contrast and strong, interesting views; some wear on a few photos and some foxing on some photos. (a50683)
$3000.00 Aung, Maun Htin . BURMESE FOLK-SONGS COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY MAUNG MYINT THEIN
Oxford 1970 Asoka Society. 8vo., 63pp., wraps. VG. (a40552)
$50.00 Myint Thein, Maung . WHEN AT NIGHTS I STRIVE TO SLEEP A BOOK OF VERSE
Oxford 1971 Asoka Society. Burmese scholar and lawyer. Large octavo., 75pp., printed pictorial green wraps. Fine. Like New. (a40392)
$28.00 Morehead, F.T. . THE FORESTS OF BURMA
London 1st 1944. Burma Pamphlets No. 5. 12mo., 67pp., 7 photo illus., map on endpapers, stiff wraps. Near VG, some wear to wraps. (a24111)
$40.00 Stevenson, H.N.C. . THE HILL PEOPLES OF BURMA
London 1945 (1944). Burma Pamphlets No. 6. 12mo., 48pp., photo illus., map on endpapers, stiff wraps. Good plus, some wear to wraps. (a24110)
$35.00 Kaznacheev, Aleksandr . INSIDE A SOVIET EMBASSY EXPERIENCES OF A RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT IN BURMA
Phila. 1962 1st Lippincott. Edited with introduction by Simon Wolin. Fine in VG DJ. (a22429)
$25.00 Linebarger, Paul and Genevieve . BURMESE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS EXTRACTED FROM SOUTHEAST ASIAN GOVERNMENTS AND POLITICS
Washington 1959. 4to., 131 leaves typed (or carbon) on rectos only, boards. 'To be published by Van Nostrand Co 1959.' VG, minor cover soiling. (a19432)
$250.00 Binney, Mrs. J. G. . TWENTY SIX YEARS IN BURMAH: RECORDS OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF JOSEPH C. BINNEY DD
Philadelphia 1880 American Baptist Publications Society. Octavo, 383pp., frontis of Joseph Binney, index, hardcover. Baptist library bookplate. VG, light wear, a bit of soiling in text. (a18877)
$99.00 Pitman, Mrs. E.R. . LADY MISSIONARIES IN FOREIGN LANDS
London n.d. (c.1880) 3rd S.W. Partridge. Includes: Ann Judson in Burma, Mrs. Johnson in Jamaica, Mrs Gobat in Jerusalem, Mrs. Wilkinson in Zululand and Mrs. Cargill in Fiji. Tales of lives of amazing deprivation and suffering, all the more intriguing as these lives were freely chosen by the missionaries. 12mo., woodcut illustrations, pictorial cloth, black and gilt on red cloth. Owner bookplate. Good, some light spotting in text, binding tight. (a15275)
$35.00 Mannin, Ethel . THE LIVING LOTUS
NY 1956 Putnam. Novel about Burma. 8vo., cloth. VG in Fair DJ, quite worn. (a13228)
$25.00 Fischer, Edward . MISSION IN BURMA THE COLUMBAN FATHERS' 43 YEARS IN KACHIN COUNTRY
NY 1980 Seabury. 164p. Photo illus. Fine in Fine DJ. (a11259)
$27.00 Waterfield, Gordon . MORNING WILL COME
London 1944 John Murray.Travel in Africa, especially Somalia, and in India and Burma during WWII. 8vo., 198pp., photo illustrations (many by Cecil Beaton), index, cloth. Maps on end papers. VG, no DJ. (a7498)
$20.00 Forester, Fanny (name on spine) Emily C. Judson (name on titlepage) . MEMOIR OF SARAH B. JUDSON MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN MISSION TO BURMAH(ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
NY 1849 (1848) L. Colby. Her childhood in U.S. and her painful short life in Burmah. 12mo., 250pp., frontis engraving, red cloth with gilt picture, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Owner signed. Fairly Good, worn but intact, binding secure. (a4979)
$45.00 Sein, Kenneth and J. Withey. . THE GREAT PO SEIN, A CHRONICLE OF THE BURMESE THEATER
Bloomington 1965 1st Indiana University. 8vo., 170pp., illustrations by Ba Lone Lay, hardcover, Fine in VG DJ, price clipped. (mu523)
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