Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 1997
ISBN 10: 9748496422 ISBN 13: 9789748496429
Librería: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. Includes numerous illustrations including color photographs. Secure hinges. Spine is not creased. Thai governmental stamp smeared in the upper right corner of the first page. A little toning (age tanning) and foxing (tan spotting) to the inside front cover, inside back cover and first and last pages. One <1/4" tan spot on the outer page edges. Very little wear otherwise. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Thailand, 1985
ISBN 10: 9748495035 ISBN 13: 9789748495033
Librería: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Soft Cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. 124 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010
ISBN 10: 6169056401 ISBN 13: 9786169056409
Librería: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. Brand new and still in publisher's shrink-wrap. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 1985
Librería: Somerset Books, Glastonbury, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. No Jacket. Marion L Matics Ilustrador. VG+ / -- B/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Slight curl to head of upper cover. Binding is firm and tight. Interior is clean with no inscriptions. Not ex-library.
Publicado por WHITE LOTUS CO LTD (THAILAND), 2015
ISBN 10: 974849599X ISBN 13: 9789748495996
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Softcover. Condición: NEW. Special order direct from the distributor.
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Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2002
ISBN 10: 9744800151 ISBN 13: 9789744800152
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New. Bangkok 2002, 177 pp., 8 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.280 Kgs. Paul W. Lewis & Bai Bibo; 51 Hani Stories. The first comprehensive overview of oral literature of the Hani ethnic group of China in English translation. Some 1.3 million people, called Hani, live in Yunnan Province, in the extreme Southwest of China. They speak a language which is in the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages. Roughly ten percent of these Hani call themselves Akha and speak a related dialect, but are considered as Hani by the People's Republic of China. The stories here are taken from the Doinia (Luchun) dialect of Hani, as spoken in the Luchun and Honghe area. The Hani people love to tell stories. These are told for purposes of entertainment, encouragement and enlightenment.
Publicado por White Lotus Co., Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002
ISBN 10: 9744800089 ISBN 13: 9789744800084
Librería: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. Thai governmental stamp on the first free endpage, otherwise all pages clean and undamaged. Exterior covers also clean with slight toning (age tanning) in a few places. Very slight wear to edges of covers. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.
Publicado por White Lotus Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand, 1998
ISBN 10: 9748434206 ISBN 13: 9789748434209
Librería: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. Large softcover with French Flaps. Includes many black and white illustrations and color photographs. Red Thai stamp in the upper right corner of the first page, otherwise pages are unmarked. Light soiling to the outer page edges. Spine is not creased. A little wear to edges of covers and spine. Upper right corner of the front cover is creased. Very little wear otherwise. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. "Migration and Survival of the Birds of Asia contains information on 724 bird species from East, Southeast and South Asia. Bird longevity and migrations are indicated by banding and returns collected during an eleven-year period, from 1963 until 1974. Birds have been suspected of being involved in the life cycles of several viral and rickettsial diseases. In Japan, an extensive study of the Japanese encephalitis virus suggested the involvement of migrating birds in its movements. But comprehensive information on bird migration routes in East Asia was not available. In this book the study of bird movements and their external parasites covers eleven countries and thirteen field stations. Although the banding work continued from 1963 to 1974, it has now been discontinued or reduced, except in Japan and India. Anyone interested in the distribution, movement, or survival of the birds of Asia or of the Northern Hemisphere will find this study an invaluable reference work." -- the publishers.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
ISBN 10: 9744800763 ISBN 13: 9789744800763
Librería: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. Fascinating book with bibliography, index, black and white photographs and numerous illustrations. Originally published in 1906, this edition was published on the 100th anniversary of the original. Clean inside and out. Narrow crease along the edge of the upper right corner of the front cover. Tiny bit of wear to edges and corner tips of covers. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 1994
ISBN 10: 9748496147 ISBN 13: 9789748496146
Librería: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. 2nd Edition. "The French in Indo-China: With a narrative of Garnier's explorations in Cochin-China, Annam and Tonquin". Scarce 1994 softcover second edition book in like new condition. Many black and white illustrations and one map. 142 pages. A little writing on front endpaper, otherwise in like new condition.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, Thailand, 2002
ISBN 10: 9747534452 ISBN 13: 9789747534450
Librería: Caffrey Books, Oundle, Reino Unido
Soft cover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 1995
ISBN 10: 9748495965 ISBN 13: 9789748495965
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 2nd Edition. Book Condition: New. Thailand 1998, 2nd Edition 2002. 239 pp., 35 pp. illus., 1 pp. in col., 1 map, 135 x 195 mm, hard cover Weight 0.300 Kgs. Choden, Kunzang; Folktales of Bhutan. The first attempt of a Bhutanese to record in English the oral traditions of their kingdom has resulted in this collection of thirty-eight folktales and legends. 35 pp. illustrations, 1 pp. in color, 1 map.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2002
ISBN 10: 9747534746 ISBN 13: 9789747534740
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New. Bangkok 2001 , first English trans. of 1894; 274 pp., 28 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.405 Kgs. Ehlers, Otto E.; On Horseback Through Indochina Vol. 2: Burma, North Thailand, The Shan States and Yunnan (First English translation from 1894. The book provides an account of the adventurous journey German traveler Otto Ehlers undertook in 1891-1892. This volume chronicles the journey starting from Moulmein on Burma's Andaman Sea coast and ending in Poofang on the border between the Sipsong Pana, now Yunnan, and French Tonkin, now Vietnam. Ehlers travels an unusual route; with intent to wander away from the itinerary followed by earlier explorers. Traveling without passports or official laissez-passers, but with letters of recommendation from Prince Damrong, Siam?s Minister of the Interior, and the British Consul in Chiang Mai, Ehlers cunningly used the locals? fear of officialdom and his own imagination. His skillful use of both helped him to cross through British and partly Chinese-claimed Shan States from Chiang Rai in Siam to Chiang Tung. When Ehlers and his party were refused entry by Chinese officials coming from Yunnan, he set off at night, headed for the border with France?s Tonkin colony, and escaped through the tea gardens of Ybang in the Sipsong Pana. In the Shan States Ehlers observed the annual rocket firing competition and describes market towns and mule-caravans plying the Yunnan-Burma trails. Along his journey, Ehlers finds the time to observe and record what strikes him as unusual or at variance with other accounts of the numerous tribes and cities in the area. Hundreds of singular encounters with people are described and the logistics of shoestring traveling are documented in a unique and colorful style.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 1997
ISBN 10: 9748496937 ISBN 13: 9789748496931
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New. Bangkok 1997 repr. from 1976; 303 pp., 16 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.520 Kgs. Terzani, Tiziano; Saigon 1975: Three Days and There Months. This book reminds us of the fall of Saigon and the defeat of the Americans in South Vietnam. Many people today visit Vietnam and in the back of their minds they connect that country with a long, painful war that happened many years ago. But how did that war end? Here is a unique eye-witness account of that dramatic, epochal event written by a journalist who had been in Indochina as a war correspondent for over four years when, on April 27, 1975, he slipped back into Saigon. The city, surrounded by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, was in panic and thousands of people were trying to escape. Foreigners, including most journalists were soon evacuated by American planes, ships and helicopters that landed on rooftops just before the communists moved in. Terzani decided to stay and he reported on the next ninety-four days: the last-ditch negotiation attempts, the panicked US evacuation, the precipitous conquest of Saigon, the anxious waiting for a bloodbath that never came, and the first signs of transformation and reconstruction. Terzani, whose reports of the takeover at Doc Lap Palace on April 30, 1975, were the first news-bulletins out of the new Vietnam, brings an informed passion to this exclusive story. He provides dramatic revelations about the last few days of the American presence: how the Americans blocked negotiations to gain time for their own evacuation, the story behind the abortive baby-lift, the unmasking of agents on both sides. He offers an incisive picture of Saigon waiting, of the Americans escaping, of communist troops marching triumphantly into the city center shouting "Giai Phong! Giai Phong!" "Liberation! Liberation!".
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd., Thailand., 2007
ISBN 10: 9744800984 ISBN 13: 9789744800985
Librería: Prabhu Book Exports, Gurgaon, HR, India
Soft cover. Condición: USED_GOOD. 146 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Card Covers With Light Wear.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2000
ISBN 10: 9747534509 ISBN 13: 9789747534504
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New. Bangkok 2000, 352 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.480 Kgs. Johnson, Wray R.; Vietnam and American Doctrine for Small Wars. Vietnam and American Doctrine for Small Wars is the first comprehensive treatment of the evolution of U.S. military doctrine for countering guerillas and other irregular forces in small wars. Since its inception, the United States has been engaged in small wars, or low intensity conflict, and has contested irregular opponents in each. The end of World War II ushered in what has since become known as the "counterinsurgency era," its genesis arguably the containment strategy of the Truman Doctrine of 1947, upon which policy-makers and military planners constructed rudimentary counterinsurgency doctrine for combatting communist guerrillas in Greece. Yet Vietnam was the real test for counter-insurgency doctrine, and the war in Vietnam has remained the touchstone for American involvement in small wars ever since. With the end of the Vietnam War, small wars doctrine has risen or fallen according to the perceived threat to the national security interests of the United States, concurrent with the success or failure of scholars and military professionals in persuading the national security bureaucracy to make qualitative changes in doctrine and force structure. In that light, this study examines the roots of American military doctrine for small wars and its subsequent evolution from "counterinsurgency" in the 1960s to "stability and support operations" in the 1990s, and concludes with an analysis of the legacy of Vietnam and the implications for emergent military doctrine in the post-Cold War era.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2008
ISBN 10: 9744801360 ISBN 13: 9789744801364
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New, Bangkok 2008 repr. from 1904; 303 pp., 16 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.500 Kgs. Jack, R. Logan; Back Blocks of China, the: A Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi. The book offers narratives of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, in the lands between Shanghai and the Irrawaddy. In 1900, a party of British citizens fleeing the Boxer Rebellion left China using the back-door. This unusual group of escapees, consisting of business people and engineers, viewed the country that they traversed from a standpoint that was different from that of the usual travelers of the time. As they crossed parts of China previously unseen by Europeans, they observed and recorded their experiences. These records have produced a unique source book showing inner China and the borderlands with Burma of 100 years ago. The text is enriched with two maps and by 28 photographs taken by members of the group.
Publicado por White Lotus Co., Ltd., thailand, 1996
ISBN 10: 9748496635 ISBN 13: 9789748496634
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New Bangkok 1996 repr. from 1908; 165 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.300 Kgs. Turpin, F. H.; History of the Kingdom of Siam Up to 1770: And of the Revolutions That Have Caused the Overthrow of the Empire. Originally published in 1771 as the first account in a Western language of the period of the French Embassies to Siam, the reign of King Narai and Constant Phaulcon, and of the sacking of Ayuthaya by the Burmese in 1767. The text was compiled from firsthand accounts and reports of Christian missionaries and bishops. It presents a wealth of detail that is not readily available elsewhere. As a classical history, it deals mostly with battles, revolutions and the overturning of personalities and reigns. The final chapters provide an assessment of the trading potential of Siam and the neighboring states. The book, however, does not shun bloodshed and scandal, which seem to have been the order of the day. Indeed, when reading this book one wonders whether our ancestors and their times really are an example for the younger generations.
Publicado por White Lotus Co., Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 1997
ISBN 10: 9748434052 ISBN 13: 9789748434056
Librería: Reading Habit, Buttaba, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback Edition. Paperback, Paperback Edition, 325gms, 193 pages. The largest paramilitary operation ever carried out by the CIA, it was a war Americans never heard about, But now Parker, with the CIA's approval, reveals the details and captures the esprit de corps of the American case officers and pilots and their special bond with the Hmong warriors and their families. Book is in very good condition with no visible general wear and tear, some sticky residue from sticker on back cover, stamp from previous bookseller on title page, otherwise no other pre-loved marks. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2005
ISBN 10: 9744800704 ISBN 13: 9789744800701
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New. Bangkok 2005 258 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.420 Kgs. Kersten, Carool; Dr. Muller's Asian Journey: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Yunnan (1907-1909. Scarce out of print book. This work is based on one of the travel books by the Dutch scholar and diplomat Hendrik Muller, written after a lengthy sojourn in various parts of Asia. As a member of the Netherlands? commercial elite, he was able to gain access to the highest circles in the countries he visited. There are accounts of audiences with the kings of Thailand and Cambodia, as well as encounters with other royalty, meetings with colonial governors, orientalists, prominent foreign advisers and other senior officials. Apart from the main cities?Bangkok, Saigon, Phnom Penh and Hanoi?Muller also ventured into the interior. There is an extensive account of his excursion to the ruins of Angkor, which in his time had barely been explored and studied. In northern Vietnam he visited the border town of Langson, and traveled on the Tonkin-Yunnan railway, a fabulous piece of engineering, to Mengzhi. The book contains many historical digressions, based on the author?s own research in the Dutch colonial archives and readings of earlier studies of Southeast Asian history. As a former businessman he was also a keen observer of the region?s contemporaneous economical situation. This century-old book is also interesting for what it reveals of the author?s conceptions regarding other cultures and religions, and the role of imperialism.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 1997
ISBN 10: 9748496724 ISBN 13: 9789748496726
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 2nd Edition. Book Description: New, Bangkok 1997 rev. ed.; 366 pp., 48 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.620 Kgs. This study looks at the role of faith in Southeast Asian healing rituals and investigates the needs which created the underlying belief systems, Shamans, mediums, and healers monitoring trances and mediating between different states of consciousness for the purpose of healing. In 21 case studies, the reader will observe a Meo shaman riding into the spirit world, the God Rama descending into the body of an Indian worker, and a Malay bomoh balancing the "wind" of a client during a main puteri. A Thai-Malay bomoh is transformed into a tiger and Singapore-Malays behave like horses. The book documents how Thai, Hindu, Malay, as well as Chinese mediums, with the help of Hindu, Taoist and Buddhist deities, deified heroes, and nature spirits cure, exorcize, and advise their clients. The phenomena of automatic writing and glossolalia are also discussed. The book addresses, e.g., the following questions: Is the demand for spiritual guidance and help increasing or declining? Is the syncretism we find in modern belief systems strictly a theoretical issue which is of no importance to the participants in a ritual? And is shamanism an "elementary form of the religious life?" The book provides, furthermore, evidence for the needs which lead to the emergence of need-fulfillers wherever and whenever specific physiological, psychological, mental, social, and spiritual needs arise. Thus, when modern physicians, psychiatrists, and sometimes priests, do not seem to have an answer, folk practitioners continue to fulfill basic human needs in modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 2009
ISBN 10: 9744801379 ISBN 13: 9789744801371
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Soft cover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition: New, Bangkok 2009 repr. from 1876; 522 pp., 16 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 2 pp. folded maps, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. Weight 0.785 Kgs. Anderson, John; Mandalay to Momien: A Narrative of the Two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 & 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne. This account provides a fascinating eye witness summary of two expeditions made in pursuit of what can only be described as a misconceived dream. The idea of a "back door" to China, which excited British speculative greed from the late 1860s, seemed determined to ignore both economic realities and physical geography. The British merchant community at Rangoon in the recently conquered Lower Burma, urged on by Chambers of Commerce and textile mill owners back in Yorkshire and Lancashire, convinced themselves that inland China was an enormous market simply waiting to absorb a fortune in British manufactures. In the 1940s, the Bhamo-Yunnan route came into prominence again. Some 50,000 American soldiers and locals spent three years building a 1600- km-long road from Ledo in Assam through Myitkyina to Bhamo and on to Kunming. It provided a lifeline for trucking in supplies to Chinese Nationalist troops fighting the Japanese, but was abandoned after 1945. The dream persists, however. In May 2007, The Times of London carried a report headlined, "India hopes old jungle trail can be a new road to riches" which will allow people and goods to travel from Assam to Kunming in just two days.
Publicado por White Lotus Co Ltd, thailand, 1988
ISBN 10: 9748495264 ISBN 13: 9789748495262
Librería: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Tailandia
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As New Condition. Bangkok 1988 repr. from 1873; 475 pp., illus., 2 folded maps, 145 x 210 mm Weight 1.300 Kgs. Vincent, Frank; Land of the White Elephant:, The Sights and Scenes in South-East Asia 1871-1872 (Reprinted from 1873, with a supplement of the 1884 edition). Text on page VIII vm PREFACE: "Although during the present century something has been learned, yet much -remains to be told ; a great deal of important information has to. be gathered before we can claim a full and true acquaintance with the kingdoms and protectorates of Farther Indiaa their present condition, capabilities, and prospects. A country of 1,000,000 square miles in area and 25,000,000 inhabitantsa having a wonderfully productive soil and a greatly extended commercea with which the unavoidable march of events shows we are soon to have more intimate relations, certainly merits a careful study. A three-years' journey round the worlda the greater part of the time occupied in which was employed in studying Man and Nature in the various lands of southern and eastern Asia (from Persia to Tibet, to Mongolia and Japan) and but recently completeda included visits to Farther India or Indo-China (as it is also styled) in the years 1871-72. The following pages also contain a personal narrative of travel and adventure in Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin China, for which little else is claimed than the merit of being true. F. y. JE.
Publicado por White Lotus Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Librería: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_NEARFINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. McMakin, Magdalene & Patrick (photos) Ilustrador. Third Edition. 140pp.incl.index; HB dk.blue w/gilt; PON,ft.pastedwn.&pencil underline,pg.xi/xii,otherwise fine w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blk.&red-photocover; slight rub&wear. "Color plates and descriptions of over 500 species . Divided into seven plant communities and easily keyed, .".
Publicado por White Lotus Co. Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 1988
ISBN 10: 9748495191 ISBN 13: 9789748495194
Librería: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. Softcover. 140 pages. Foreword by Robyn J. Maxwell. Text by Patricia Cheesman. Includes numerous color illustrations. A near fine copy with a small chop stamp to the half title page in a very near fine dust jacket.
Publicado por White Lotus Co. Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Librería: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. 4to. [xiii], 155 pp. 250 photographic illustions in color plus 2 charts and map of Thailand. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (87850).