New York: Macmillan, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on 4 years of study of the Chinese who live in Southeast Asia. 264 pgs, photographs, index, bibliography. Map endpapers.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel, the stories of young Chinese men and women who bring their hopes and dreams to Shanghai, the shining symbol of "the New China." SIGNED on the title page. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 379 pp. ISBN: 978-0812994346.

Milwaukie, OR: M Press, (2004.). In 1939, when she was just 11 years old, Ursula and her parents were among the last Jewish families to be able to get out of Germany - and at the time, when of the few places open to Jews was the city of Shanghai, the 'armpit' of the world as one sailor described it. Twenty-thousand Jews found refuge in this city already teeming with people; this is an account of the hardships they encountered, but also the friendships and the helpfulness, and also an account of coming to age in a world torn by war. A fascinating account. Photographs. 267 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Recent National Book Award winner's highly praised third novel, set in Beijing in the days of Tiananmen. A woman accompanies her husband to China to a scientific convention, and winds up "forever out of love with her husband and very much in love the country and its culture." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-671-729608.

New York: Village East Books, (1998). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hong Kong in 1857, focusing on Andrew Adams - a "rogue with a social conscience. He's an American seaman, smuggler, and gambler who has settled down to running a buzzing bar called the Bee Hive Tavern in the Chinese section of Hong Kong - a long way in every respect from 'the Peak,' where the wealthy and powerful Europeans who control the island's destiny live." 538 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-966189914.

New York: Random House, (1979). Hardcover first edition - The second of his novels set in post-World War II China, where Becker lived for four years - "In January 1949, Jack Burnham (thirty five, ex-major, ex-guerilla, ex-Christian and born-again rebel, who has quarreled with, among others, God and MacArthur) is asked by the U.S. government to fly into Peking and track down a Japanese war criminal." A suspenseful novel, set in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Chinese Communists, a love story and also an exploration of the good and evil in man. 294 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394499271.

New York: SOHO Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book), winner of the 1993 Washington Prize for Fiction, set in 1938 when the Japanese army has occupied Nanking in China - the story of a Chinese woman who is unexpectedly rescued by a junior Japanese officer, and their complex relationship. Dustjacket praise by Ann Beattie and Reynolds Price (who comments "Soldier and captive live out a kind of love which is riveting to watch and deeply instructive."SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 1-569470383.

Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this classic and comprehensive English-language work on Japanese, Chinese & Korean humor from all periods (India is not included, although the introduction describes India as the chief origin of world humour.) Among the topics are Chinese classics and poetry, ghost stories, Liehtse, proverbs, Taoism, Zen, short stories, Korean humor and proverbs, Chinese influence on Japan, Japanese caricature, old and modern Senryu, Yanagidaru, and more. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, 26 rather striking inserted plates (7 in color), each with a tissue guard imprinted with notations about the plate, by Kang Hi An, Li Am, Sengai, Hakuin, Tosa Minsunaga and others, and 6 en texte illustrations. Chronological chart, bibliography, index. 582 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2011). SIGNED - The author's very unusual and interesting debut novel, featuring a young American Iraq War vet, estranged from her husband and adrift in modern Beijing, where she is hanging out on the fringes of the contemporary Chinese art scene. SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-1569479513.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story based on the author's grandmother - Instead of getting married, Ruby is determined to attend university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. An engaging portrait of a young girl who strives for more and a grandfather who rewards her hard work and courage. SIGNED by the author opposite the half title page. Illustrated with watercolor paintings by Sophie Blackall. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8118-34905.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of Chinese village life, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, in which Su-Mei and her friends preserve the wheat crop and save her village from famine. Both the author and the illustrator had lived in China and have a sympathy and understanding of the people there. 246 pp.

New York: The John Day Company, (1942.). Hardcover - Novel set in China. 378 pp.

New York: The John Day Company, (1936.). Hardcover - Fictionalized biography of the author's mother in China. 315 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a young couple in China in 1906, witnesses to the crumbling of a 2000 year old dynasty, and spent many years there working to help the people in the city that they came to love; a story inspired in part by the lives of the author's grandparents who were Mennonite missionaries in China from 1906 to 1961. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0805092288.

New York Marlowe & Company (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of upheaval and revolution in China. In the 1940s, the Chen family fled their native China and escaped to the U.S. during the civil war, after being persecutied in Chunking during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45..However, when they were repatriated in the 1950s, they had to endure the Cultural Revolution, separation, imprisonment and re-education, xii, 322 pp. ISBN: 1-56924-7420.

New York: Random House, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Author's very highly praised first book, a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. SIGNED on the title page in both English and Chinese characters. 316 pp.

Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press (2008). First edition - Essays on a variety of topics, including art and changes in China, by this noted Chinese painter and writer. The title piece is a speech which he gave at the Hong Kong Book Fair in July 2008. The first ten essays (71 pages) are in English, the final two (55 pages) are in German. Photographs. 126 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first adult novel - "In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion." 381 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 978-0307701572.

San Francisco: Immedium, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth adventure in this series of stories from the Chinese Zodiac - "The lamb Sydney befriends the shepherd girl Zhi and other animals. But after a storm strikes, can Sydney show them how valuable a sheep's qualities can be?" Illustrated by Alina Chau. SIGNED by the author, Oliver Chin, on the front pastedown with the words "Happy Year of the Sheep." Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1597021043.

New York: St Martin's, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as "The First Major Novel to Come Out of Contemporary China." Written by a former Red Guard and set mostly in Shanghai in the late 1970s, this is a novel of how the Cultural Revolution of 1957 and the fall of the Gang of Four in 1977 affected one woman, her husband and their friends around them. Translated by Frances Wood. Translator's note, list of principle characters and footnotes at the end of the book. ix, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312762151.

New York: Scribner, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's debut novel, set in Taiwan (where the author lived for several years) and China, winner of the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction. 451 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-46349.

Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, (2010). First edition - An exploration of supernatural and natural healing practices all over the world through 270 colonial postcards from a private collection, published in conjunction with an exhibition of these postcards in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2009. Shown in their original colors, the cards are a rich source of visual information about native health and healing, but also a source which needs to be considered with care, since many reflect the colonial prejudices and racist attitudes of the time. Notes, references. Large format. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-9460220173.

New York: Plume, (1987). The eighth book in the series of the old soldier's memoirs with Harry Flashman in China during the Taiping Rebellion of 1860. Glossary, notes. Maps. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-452261910.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth book in the series of the old soldier's memoirs with Harry Flashman in China during the Taiping Rebellion of 1860. Glossary, notes. Map endpapers. Dustjacket art by Barbosa. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-394-553578.

New York: The Viking Press, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this popular and highly praised Chinese writer to be published in English. Both a coming of age story and a vivid picture of the effect of the Cultural Revolution in a small city in the border province of Xinjiang. At Love Liu's school, a man has arrived with a much different book from Mao's Little Red Book: a massive - and blue - English dictionary. Second Prize Wang is the school's new English teacher. Includes a new afterword for the English edition by the author. Translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670-020591.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author to appear in English, published in the year he was awarded the prize, the first Chinese author to be named a Nobel laureate in literature. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. One reviewer called this "a magnificent monster of a book that takes us deep into China's unruly heart as no other work of contemporary literature. Includes a list of major publications by Gao Xingjian. 510 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6210828.