Asia from Lawrence Jones

USA: Human Rights Watch, 1990. 148pp. Orange card. Some fading to spine and adjacent. Adresses abuses by the Philippines government and the New People's Army including summary executions, mutilation of corpses, torture and other vio;ations by both sides.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Place Not Stated: Birdlife International & Dove Publications, 2007. xix, 113pp, index, references, appendices, 43 col plates + other col ills, line drawing. Pictorial card. Near new. SIGNED by one of the authors (Brian Coates) on title page. The avifauna of Timor Leste (East Timor) covering 261 species. Text in Portuguese, English and Indonesian (Panduan language).. Signed by Author. First… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957. HEAVY. xvi, 715pp, index, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Alittle foxing to jacket, offset toning to endpapers. This volume relates mainly to operations in Malaya in the first 10 weeks of the war against Japan. Also describes the experiences of small garrisons overrun in New Britain, Ambon and Dutch Timor. Final section describes… Read more about this item

New York: Invisible Man Press, 2013. xi, 124pp. Pictorial card. Near new. A small town Indian soldier taken prisoner by the Japanese and with thousands of other Indians shipped out of Singapore in a 'torture ship' and sent to a labour camp in Rabaul. He was one of the lucky survivors, and perhaps the only one whose story of captivity… Read more about this item

Hong Kong.: Periplus Editions, 1996. xv, 376pp, index, glossary, bw ills. Spine faded otherwise nice. Essays presented in 4 parts: Religion in Bali; Ritual and Magic; Anniversaries and temples; and the Performing Arts. The essays cover topics rangung from Hindu Mythology to tooth filing to modern gamelan music. Explores both tangibles and intangibles in the realm of Balinese religion,… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Periplus, 1995. xv, 383pp, index, bw ills. Or card. Spine faaded otherwise excellent. Explores tangibles and intangibles in the realms of Balinese geography, social organization, language, folklore and material culture.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Jakarta: Balai Pustaka, 1987. VERY HEAVY. xvi, 716pp, index, glossary, line drawings, map. Green cloth in jacket. Jacket moderately edgewrorn with several tears, minor foxing to page edges. SIGNED with complimetns of the author (Kostemans) on front free endpapers. Describes 265 weeds of concern to the rice industry in Indonesia. Excursions undertaken in Java, Madura, South/West and East Sumatra, Toba… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Asian Educational Services., 2003. 68pp, index, appendices, bw ills. Pictorial boards. Near new. The coinage and paper currency of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) under British rule. Originally published 1939 and scarce in any edition.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: Phaidon Press, 2015. HEAVY. Unpaginated (approx 200pp), col ills. Brown cloth with laid on image to front. A little shaken, starting to crack at title page. A volume of stunning photographs taken while travelling in India.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by McCurry, Steve (photographer). Folio.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. vii, 261pp, index, glossary, bibliography, num col & bw ills. Pink cloth in jacket. Light foxing to top edge and minor foxing to prelims, small bookseller label to front pastedown, a little wear and tiny mark to edges of boards. Asia has some of the most beautiful and unusual orchid species, yet many are rarely… Read more about this item

Singapore: Asia Pacific Press, 1974. xi, 127pp, glossary, notes. Red cloth in jacket. 3-line gift note on front free endpaper, foxing to page edges and prelims. Jacket rubbed with several tears and small chips. Sections include rice, fish/seafood, fowl, meat, kebab (sate), vegetables, eggs, condiments, relishes and deserts.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Quadrant Books, 1984. 185pp + biographical index, appendix, map, bw & col ills. Green card. Light edge wear to cover. The original of this diary was buried in the cemetery at Chungkai for fear of discovery by the Japanese, and dug up in 1945. It tells the true story of the 16000 Allied POWs that died during the construction… Read more about this item

London: Osprey Publishing, 1988. 203pp, num bw & some col ills. Pictorial card. Creases and moderate edge wear to covers. . First UK Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1975. 352pp, index, notes/references, appendix. Black boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, rubbed at flap folds, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Chronicles the historic boycotts, mutinies and riots staged in Australia against the colonial Dutch in Indonesia from 1942-49. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Roy Osborne & Wynand van Eeden., 2007. viii, 116pp, glossary, bibliography, appendices, num col ills, line drawings, mpas. Green cloth in jacket. Generally light wear to jacket edges with 1cm tear at bottom front. Covers all Vietnemese cycad species including Stangerioides, Indosinensis and Cycas and includes toxicity and ethnobotany.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968. xii, 108pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, 48 bw plates, line drawings. Pale blue cloth, no jacket. Indian swords-chapters are northen half of India, southern half of India, Nepal and Assam. Appendices: Kopis blade; techniques and local styles in the decorative arts; hilt forms and their local variants.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: The Author, 2014. xiii, 557pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, nominal rolls, appendices, bw ills. Black cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. The 2/40 Battalion-mainly Tasmanians- were sent to garrison an airfield in Dutch Timor immediately after the Japanese entered WWII. Assigned a hopeless military task with misguided strategy they were captured a week after the fall of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. xvi, 316pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices (inc nominal roll), bw ills. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket, foxing to page edges and prelims. The story of an Australian battalion which fought as part of the US Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. The story of Australian, New Zealand and American soldiers sent inot… Read more about this item

London: Royal Colonial Institute, 1908. xii, 492pp, index, list of fellow. Burgundy cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind. Page edges evenly toned. Articles on Minerals of New Zealand; Nyasaland; Cotton Growing and Nigeria; Ceylon; Education in India; East Africa; Irrigation in Australia and more.. Periodical. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 1997. xiii, 225pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, maps. Pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacekt. The history of the development of the modern navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.