75pp.
Warwick Gallery, 1980, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . Catalogue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #20275

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 8.01 approx. - € 5.56 approx.)

.178pp.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0792388259

Inventory #15476

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 48.06 approx. - € 33.36 approx.)

'I want you to know what it is really like to live the life of a geisha, a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and richly glorious rewards. It is a life in which I was a pre-eminent success; many say the best of my generation. And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave. It is a story that I have long wanted to tell. My name is Mineko.' For more than four decades, Mineko Iwasaki has lived within the confines of powerful but invisible constraints. Bound by an ancient, unwritten code - 'by the robes of tradition and the sanctity of our exclusive calling' - she and thousands of other women over the course of three centuries of Japanese history have shielded their extraordinary lives from public view. In Geisha of Gion, Mineko is the first Japanese geisha to shed light on the fascinating and arcane geisha tradition. Captivating and poignant, Mineko's book captures her earliest memories, beginning with her move to the geisha house at the tender age of four and her initiation into the profession that she would perfect. As we follow Mineko's gradual blossoming over the years from 'Little Princess' to the brightest of stars, we learn all about the intricate training and rigid education system by which girls become geishas, the specific duties and performances required of the women and the extraordinarily vast foundation of wealth upon which geisha culture rests. Filled with moments of great strength and delicate beauty, Geisha of Gion is a brave and luminous revelation. 334pp.
Pocket Books, 2003, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN: 074343059X

Inventory #21650

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 8.01 approx. - € 5.56 approx.)

A companion volume to William Q.Judges's,Ocean of Theosophy,this book offers the student a compendium of supporting quotations that is useful both for classes and individual study.204pp.
Point Loma Publications, 2002, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1889598070

Inventory #18232

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 12.02 approx. - € 8.34 approx.)

Slight reading crease to the spine. Corners slightly creased. In January 1896, at the age of 64, the indomitable Isabella Bird set off to explore the Yangtze River and the lonely mountain region of north-west China. A veteran of 20 years travel in America, Asia and the Near East, it was her last great adventure, but one as full of drama and spectacle as anything that had gone before. Eschewing the leisure enjoyed by England's expatriate community in Shanghai, she was thrilled and occasionally aghast at what she found in the little-known land which lay beyond. Travelling alone by riverboat and basket chair, she made her way almost to the Tibetan border, staying in inns and mission stations, observing with fascination the landscape and customs of the people, surviving the terror of a lynching mob, the hostitily of officials who would block her path and the perils of snow storms at 12,000 feet. 547pp.
Virago Press Ltd, 1985, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0860687902

Inventory #21673

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 8.01 approx. - € 5.56 approx.)