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23581.)   ->The Akha Journal of the Golden Triangle, October 2003 Issue.    PB:Akha Heritage Foundation: Salem,

OR, 2003.  271 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.

 

22536.) ACOCELLA, Ed. JOAN: ->Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell. HC:Univeristy of

Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, HI, 2001. 1st Edition 157 pgs., $15  PB:Univeristy Of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, HI, 2001. 1st

Edition 157 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy.  Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An memoir of a wife of a missionary to Northern

Thailand, beginning in 1912.

7867.) AIR AMERICA PUBLICATION:  ->Air Facilities Data: Thailand.    PB:Air America: Thailand, 1971.  84 pgs.,

$15 A photcopied reprint in the same handbook format used by Air America personnel.

 

2266.) AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AREA STUDIES ->Thailand: A Country Study. HC:Government Printing

Office:  Washington, D.C., 1981. 5th Edition 352 pgs., $12    A v/g plus copy.

 

3159.) AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AREA STUDIES PROGRAM:->Area Handbook for Thailand.

PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1968.  558 pgs., $12.5 Vinyl cover, a v/g copy. Research and

writing completed was completed in May of 1967.

 

6270.) ANTONIO, J: ->The 1904 Traveller's Guide to Bangkok and Siam.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1997.

104 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. J. Antonio was a prominent photographer of King Chulalongkorn's reign.

   Book contiains 75 choice illustrations.

 

3780.) AYER, MARGARET: ->Made in Thailand. HC:Alfred A Knopf:  New York, 1964.  242 pgs., $10    Ex-library, a

v/g copy. A background book on Thailand for the general reader.  Illustrations by the author and photographs.

 

8563.) AYMONIER, ETIENNE: ->Isan Travels: Northeast Thailand's Economy in 1883-1884.    PB:White Lotus Press:

Bangkok, 2000. REP. Edition 339 pgs., $30 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author was a specialist in Cambodian

studies and travelled extensively in Northeast Thailand  with Cambodian assistants.  First published in two volumes

in 1895 and 1897.  Translated by Walter E.J. Tips.

8710.) AYMONIER, ETIENNE: ->Khmer Heritage in Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition

266 pgs., $23.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. This book covers the Menam Chao Phraya Basin, Nakhon

Ratchasima or Korat Province, the Isan Provinces, the country between the Moon River and the Dangrek Mountains,

and the area aroudn Bassac.   Translated  by Walter Tips.

9834.) AYMONIER, ETIENNE: ->Khmer Heritage in the Old Siamese Provinces of Cambodia.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.:

 Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition 302 pgs., $27.5 Wraps trade ed., coverr has light fading, o/w a fine copy. The

provinces included in this work are Melou Prey, Sisophon, Battambang, and Siem Reap.   Translated by Walter Tips.

 

27478.) BAKER, CHRIS: ->A History of Thailand.    PB:Cambridge University Press: New York, 2005.  301 pgs.,

$19.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book provides an overview of the the political, economic, social, and economic

 

22941.) BALL, DESMOND: ->The Boys in Black: The Thahan Phran (Rangers), Thailand's Para-Military Border

Guards.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2004. 1st Edition 258 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed.,  a mint copy. This book

is a study of the Rangers, a volunteer organization founded by the Royal Thai Army in 1978 to combat communist

insurgency.

20476.) BANGKOK TIMES:  ->The 1894 Directory for Bangkok and Siam.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1996.

Rep. Edition 188 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A reference work that provides information abut weights

and measures, Siamese festivals, postage and telegraph tariffs, notes on ancient and modern history of Siam, and

includes official and general directories.  Book has an introduction by Walter Tips.

 

24557.) BASTIAN, ADOLF: ->A Journey in Siam (1863).    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2005. Rep. Edition 264

pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is volume 2 of Adolf Bastian's travels in South-East Asia.  He was

renowned ethnographer who found the Berlin Ethnological Museum and the Berlin Anthropological Society.

 

 

25640.) BERNATZIK, HUGO ADOLF: ->Moken and Semang 1936-2004: Persistence and Change.    PB:White Lotus

Ltd.: Bangkok, 2005.  172 pgs., $33.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is a new editon of the first part of

Bernatizik's work The Spirits of the Yellow Leaves that was originally published in 1938.  Jacques Ivanoff provides an

 introduction and describes how the Moken survived the Tsunami of  December 2004.

 

25512.) BERNATZIK, HUGO ADOLF: ->The Spirits of the Yellow Leaves: The Enigmatic Hunter-Gatherers of

Northern  Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2005. Rep. Edition 175 pgs., $27.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint

copy. This is a travel account and documentary work by the Austrian ethnographer and photographer Hugo A.

Bernatzik who travelled in Northern and Southern Thailand during 1937-1938.

 

9056.) BICKNER, ROBERT J.: ->An Introduction to the Thai Poem 'Lilit Phra Law,'  The Story of King Law.

PB:Center Southeast Asian Studies, NIU: Dekalb, IL, 1991.  254 pgs., $16.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.   Another

 copy, $7.50, tips of cover slightly bent, o/w a v/g copy. This study examines the text of the Lilit Phra Law and the

verse forms used to create it,  as well as the criticism made of it by contemporary scholars, expecially from the point

of view of linguiistic analysis.

29960.) BLAKESLEE, D. J., L. W. HUFF & R. W. KICKERT: ->Viillage Security Pilot Study Northeast Thailand.

Inscribed by Kickert, wraps trade ed, a v/g copy. Some of the text is in Thai.in

 

2345.) BLOFED, JOHN: ->Bangkok. HC:Time-Life Books:  New York, 1979.  200 pgs., $7.5    A v/g plus copy. Book is

part of the Time-Life Great Cities of the World series.

 

2277.) BOCK, CARL: ->Temples and Elephants: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration Through Upper Siam and

 Laos.    PB:White Orchid Press: Bangkok, 1985. REP. Edition 438 pgs., $18 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. An account

 of a trip made from Bangkok to the Golden Triangle area  in 1881.   Title originally published in 1883.

 

22691.) BOTAN,  ->Letters From Thailand.    PB:Silkworm Books: Bangkok, 2002. Rep. Edition 410 pgs., $17.5

Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.v/g copy. A novel that won the SEATO international prize for literature in 1970.

 

21853.) BOULBET, JEAN:Hjea ->Khao Phra Thaew: Wildlife Park and Forest Reserve.    PB:Andaman Offset Phuket:

 Thailand, n.d..  80 pgs., $17.5 Wrpas trade ed., a fine copy. Text in French and English with some Thai text.   Color

 and black and white photos.  Pulication done in cooperation with the French Embassy and the Thialnd Wildlife Park

 Chief.  Author is associated with th eEcole Francaise d'Extreme Orient.

 

4898.) BOWIE, Ed. KATHERINE A.: ->Voices From the Thai Countryside: The Short Stories of Samruam Singh.

PB:Center for Southeast Asian Studies: University Wisconsin, Madison, 1991.  127 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g

copy. Samruam Singh stories convey the agony of the Thai countryside under the pressure of the rapid social and

economic changes occurring in the 1970s.

22301.) BOWIE, KATHERINE A.: ->Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout

Movement in Thailand.    PB:Columbia University Press: New York, 1997. 1st Edition 393 pgs., $23.5 Wraps trade

ed., a mint copy. An anthropological study of the Village Scout movement in Thailand to counter a growing

communist insurgency.

6398.) BOZMAN, RON: ->Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide: Bangkok.    PB:Macmillan: New york, 1994. 2nd

Edition 244 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., a  very fine copy.

 

7135.) BROMAN, SVEN: ->Shadows of Life: Nang Talung, Thai Popular Shadow Theatre. HC:White Orchid Press:

Bangkok, Thailand, 1996.  103 pgs., $29.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book contains 147 illustrations of  Thai

Shadow Theatre along with an index of Thai names and terms.

 

27614.) BRUN, VIGGO and TROND SCHUMACHER:->Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand.    PB:White

 Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1994.  375 pgs., $35 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book provides  a comprehensive analysis of

the herbal medical traditon in rural Thailand.  The appendix lists about  540 medicinal plants along with their

claimed medical properties.

20477.) BULS, CHARLES: ->Siamese Sketches.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1994. Rep. Edition 154 pgs., $25

Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is a travel account by the author to Siam in 1900.  He was the former mayor of

Brussels and saw himself as a noted world traveller.

 

28612.) CHAKRABONGSE, CHULA: ->The Twain Have Met: An Eastern Prince Came West. HC:G. T. Foulis & Co.,

Ltd.,:  London, 1957. 2ND Edition 299 pgs., $25    A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.

 

27494.) CHALOEMTIARANA, THAK: ->Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism.    PB:Cornell Southeast Asia

Program: Ithaca, NY, 2007.  284 pgs., $26.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.

 This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for

Thailand's support of the US military involvement in Southeast Asia.   The analysis documents the ways in which

Sarit shaped modern Thai politics.

 

26318.) CHIRAPRAVATI, ML PATTARATORN: ->Votive Tablets in Thailand: Origin, Styles and Uses. HC:Oxford

University Press:  Kuala Lumpur, 1997.  83 pgs., $19.5    A very fine copy with a laminated color. This book focuses

on the origin, development of styles, and uses of votive tablets in Thailand from their introduction in the sixth

century to their present role in the almost universal Thai practice of wearing amulets.  Book is part of the Images of

Asia series.

2282.) CHU, VALENTIN: ->Thailand Today: A Visit to Modern Siam. HC:Thomas Y. Crowell Co.:  New York, 1968.

200 pgs., $6    Speckling top edge, o/w a v/g copy. Book has 48 pages of color photographs.

 

7823.) CLARK, CAROL: ->Seeing Red: A View from Inside the Ruby Trade.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1999.

114 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., some fading along spine and top edge of front cover,  o/w a v/g copy. Book is based

 on the author's first hand experience working for one of Bangkok's largest gem trading firms.  Contains 55 color

plates.

9425.) COHEN, ERIK: ->The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Phuket: Religion, Ethnicity and Tourism on a Southern

Thai Island.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2001.  211 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., slight fading edges of front cover,

 o/w a fine copy The author's analysis on the festival is focused on the interrelationship between the dynamics of the

festival, Chinese ethnicity in contemporary Thailand, and the development of tourism on the island of Phuket.

 

21527.) COHEN, ERIK: ->The Commercialized Crafts of Thailand: Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages. HC:University of

 Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, HI, 2000.  316 pgs., $7.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j. Richly ilustrated with 15 color plates

and  117 black and white photographs.

 

27505.) CONNORS, MICHAEL KELLY: ->Democracy and National Identity in Thailand.    PB:Nordic Institute of

Asian Studies: Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007. Rev. Edition 293 pgs., $27.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Study

provides readers with an insightful discussion of how debates about democracy and national identity in Thailand

have evolved from the period of counter-insurgency in the 1960s to the current period.

 

19978.) CROSSROADS,  VOL. 13, NO. 2:  ->Bangkok Bar Workers and the Negotiation of Selfhood.    PB:Center SE

Asian Studies, Northern Il. Univ.: Dekalb, IL, 1999.  149 pgs., $14.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This article is by

Marc Askew.  Other articels include Sai Baba Movement in Malaysia by Alexandra Kent and Phan Nhat Nam and

the Battle of An Loc by John C. Schafer.

20656.) CROSSROADS, VOLUME 2, NO. 2:  ->Two Hundred Years of the Chakri Dynasty.    PB:Northern Illinois Univ.

 Center SEA Studies: Dekalb, IL, 1985.  145 pgs., $12 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This monograph has 9 articles

and two commentaries that deal with Thailand's history, literature, religion, municipal administrations, and

economic development.

9233.) CROSSROADS, VOLUME 3, NO. 1:  ->In Celebration of King Ram Khamhaeng of Sukhothai: Seven Hundred

 Years of Thai Writing.    PB:Center SE Asian Studies, N. Illinois: Dekalb, IL., 1986.  153 pgs., $12 Wraps trade ed., a

 mint copy.

 Contrains 12 articles on Thai literature.

9206.) CROSSROADS, VOLUME 4, NO. 2,  1989:->Special Thai Issue (Part One).    PB:Center SEA Studies, N.

Illinois Univ.: Dekalb, IL., 1989.  114 pgs., $12 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Contains 8 articles.

 

2067.) CURTIS: LILLIAN JOHNSON: ->The Lao of North Siam Seen Through the Eyes of a Missionary.    PB:White

Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1998. REP. Edition 338 pgs., $30 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book contains a description of

the people of northern Thailand by an Americna missionary around the turn of the cent;ury.  Her travels included a

trip from Bangkok to Lakon where  she spent four years.  While there, she visited Chiang Mai, Nan, Prae and Chiang

Rai.

29873.) CUSHMAN, JENNIFER WAYNE: ->Fields From the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade With Siam During the Late

Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.    PB:Cornell SEAP Program: Ithaca, NY, 2000. 2ND Edition 199 pgs.,

 

7632.) DE CHAUMONT, CHEVALIER & ABBE DE CHOISY: ->Aspects of the Embassy to Siam 1685.    PB:Silkworm

Books: Chinag Mai, Thailand, 1997.  216 pgs., $12.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Chevalier de Chaumont was

the French ambassador to King Narai and he sought to convert him.  Edited by Michael Smithies.

 

7658.) DE CHOISY, ABBE: ->Journal of a Voyage to Siam, 1685-1686. HC:Oxford Univeristy Press:  Singapore,

1993. Rep. Edition 305 pgs., $30    A fine copy in a mint d/j. De Choisy was a co-ambassador to King Narai of Siam

and his account  is written in journal form to a friend.  Book is tanslated and contains an introduction by Michael

Smithies.

20294.) DEARDEN, Ed. PHILIP: ->Environmental Protection and Rural Development in Thailand: Challenges and

Opportunities.    PB:White Lotus Press Ltd.: Bangkok, 2002.  404 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book

contains a  wide selection of papers that address issues relating to rural development and both marine and terrestrial

environmental protection.

2287.) DEIGNAN, H. G.: ->Siam-Land of Free Men.    PB:Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1943.  26 pgs.,

$20 A v/g copy. Title is part of the War Background Studies series published by the Smithsonian Institution during

World War II. Includes eight pages of photos and a map.

 

2288.) deYOUNG,. JOHN E.: ->Village Life in Modern Thailand. HC:University of California Press:  Berkely & Los

Angeles, 1955.  225 pgs., $15    A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.

 

20461.) DISKUL, M. C.  SUBHADRADIS: ->Hindu Gods At Sukhodaya. HC:White Lotus Ltd.:  Bangkok, 1990.  132

pgs., $15    Scuffing of outside cover, o/w a v/g  copy. A study in iconography in which the author applies the theory

developed by Philipe Stern for Khmer iconography on Thai sculptures of the Sukhothai period.  Book has a preface

by Jean Boisselier and is a revised verson of a study in the Thai language from 1966.  It has 71 black and white

photos.

 

8556.) DOHRING, KARL: ->Buddhist Stupa (Phra Chedi) Architecture of Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok,

2000. REP. Edition 154 pgs., $24.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Originally published as Der Prachedibau in Siam,

pp. 693-806 in Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, 1912.  Translated by Walter E.J. Tips.

 

8721.) DOHRING, KARL: ->Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.:

Bangkok, 2000. REP. Edition 353 pgs., $49.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. First published in German in 1920, this

book is an in-depth architectonic and socio-cultural analysis of temple builidng complexes.   It contains 180 pages of

 technically perfect photographs and 116 floor plans and refined line drawings.  Tanslated by Walter Tips with a

preface by Krisana Honguten.

20469.) DOHRING, KARL: ->The Country and People of Siam.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1999. Rep. Edition

206 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Dohring was an architect who worked in Siam during King

Chulalongforn's reign.  His book sets forth his observations of Thai life  and there are 142 choice original

photographs.

28516.) DURRENBERGER, E. PAUL & NICOLA TANNENBAUM: ->Analytical Perspectives On Shan Agriculture and

Village Economics.     Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.

 

28518.) DURRENBERGER, Ed. E. PAUL: ->State Power and Culture in Thailand.     Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A

collection of six essays by anthropologists who analze various dimensions of the relationships between state power

 

9106.) ENGLEHART, NEIL A.: ->Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government.    PB:Southeast Asia

Program Publications: Ithaca, NY, 2001.  130 pgs., $21 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This study represents a broad

reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior to King Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms in the

nineteenth century.  He argues that traditional Siamese government functioned more effectively and rationally than

most scholars have acknowledged.

2292.) EXELL, F.K.: ->The Land and People of Thailand. HC:Adam & Charles Black, Ltd.:  London, 1964. Rep.

Edition 96 pgs., $10    A v/g  copy in a v/g d/j. Title is part of 'The Lands and Peoples Series.'

 

23303.) FARRINGTON, Ed. ANTHONY: ->Dr Richardson's Missions to Siam, 1829-1839.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.:

Bangkok, 2004.  271 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Materail fro this book is drawn from the archives of the

East India Company with observatons of Thailand by David Richardson, a surgeon in the English East India

Company's Madras Army.

9683.) FARRINGTON, Ed. ANTHONY: ->Early Missionaries in Bangkok: The Journals of Tomlin, Gutzlaff and Abeel

1828-1832.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2001.  170 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., some fading of outside cover,

o/w a fine copy. light a mint copy. The editor provides an introduction to the journals, placing them in their historical

 context.

27759.) FARRINGTON, Ed. ANTHONY: ->Low's Mission to Southern Siam, 1824.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

2007.  126 pgs., $23.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. James Low was an officer of the English East India Company's

Madras Army and his mission was to enlist Siamese for the British invasion of Burma.  His description provides an

internesting account  not only of his mission but his observation of the area at the time.

 

28038.) FELTUS, GEORGE HAWS: ->Samuel Reynolds House of Siam: Pioneer Medical Missonary, 1847-1876.

PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2007. 1st Edition 256 pgs., $21.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book draws on

the letters and journal of Dr. House which provides an excellent record of life in the time of King Mongkut's rule and

the beginning of King Chulalongkorn's reign.

26222.) FERRARI, OLIVIER, KUNLASAB UTPUAY, NARUMON HINSHIRANAN & JACQUEST IVANOFF:->Turbulence

 On Ko Phra Thong, (Phang Nga Province, Thailand).    PB:Ketos: Paris, 2006.  183 pgs., $39.5 Wraps trade ed., a

mint copy. A study of the Moken  people and an analysis of their ability to cope with the destruction reaped on their

villages.

5738.) FINEMAN, DANIEL: ->A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government In Thailand, 1947-

1958. HC:University of Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997. 1st Edition 357 pgs., $15    A mint copy in a mint d/j..

An excellent account of the U.S. and Thailand relationship during the 1947-1958 period and how the CIA was

invovled in Thai domestic politics.  Based on newly released documents Thai and American documents and

interviews with former intelligence officers, generals, diplomats and politicians from Thailand and the United States.

 

 

8557.) FLEESON, KATHERINE NEVILLE: ->Laos Folklore of Northern Siam.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 2000.

REP. Edition 153 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author was a missionary in Thailand at the turn of the

century and recorded these folktales in order to preserve the oral history of the peoples of northern Thailand.

 

24856.) FORBES, ANDREW and DAVID HENLEY: ->Khon Muang: People and Principalities of North Thailand.

HC:Art Media Resources:  Bangkok, 1997.  262 pgs., $19.95    A mint copy in a mint d/j. Richly illustrated with color

photos and it has a very descriptive text.

 

7183.) FOUSER, BETH: ->The Lord of the Golden Tower: King Prasat Thong and the Building of Wat

Chaiwathanaram.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1996.  135 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. The author

explores the cultural, historical and religious context from which Wat Chaiwatthanaram emerged.

 

27397.) FREEMAN, ANDREW A.: ->A Journalist in Siam.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2007.  341 pgs., $22.5

Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An account of Andrew Freeman's time spent at the The Bangkok Daily Mail, an English

 language newspaper published in Sian during the 1920s.  Foreward by Sean Ashley.

 

20015.) FREEMAN, MICHAEL: ->A Guide to Northern Thailand and the Ancient Kingdom of Lanna.

PB:Weatherhill Books: Trumbull, CT, 2001.  242 pgs., $24.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A  concise guide with an

 

9838.) FUKUI, HAYAO: ->Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village. HC:Univerisity of Hawaii Press:

Honolulu, HI, 1993. 1st Edition 421 pgs., $12    A mint copy.

 

28336.) GARDNER, SIMON, PINDAR & VILAIWAN ANUSARNSUNTHORN: ->A Field Guide to Forest Trees of

Northern Thailand.     Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book provides information on 430 species in detail, plus noted

for a further 450 species.   Fully illustrated with with 875 color phoots.

 

22366.) GARRETT, STEPHEN A.: ->Bangkok Journal: A Fulbright Year in Thailand. HC:Souhten Illinois University

Press:  Carbondale, IL, 1986. 1st Edition 269 pgs., $10    Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a mint copy in a mint

d/j. A personal account of a Fulbright scholar's  year in Thailand, describing university organization, Thai social life,

and comparing American and Thai students.

8215.) GERINI, G.E.: ->Siam and Its Productions, Arts, and Manufactures (1911).    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

2000. REP. Edition 359 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is a reprint of a  descriptive catalogue of the

Siamese section at the International Exhibition of Industry and Labor held in 1911.

 

27347.) GERSON, RUTH: ->Traditional Festivals of Thailand. HC:Oxford University Press:  Kuala Lumpur, 1996. 1st

Edition 82 pgs., $17.5    A mint copy. Title is  part of the Images of Asia series.

 

8830.) GERVAISE, NICOLAS: ->The Natural and Political History of the Kingdom of Siam.    PB:White Lotus Co.,

Ltd.: Bangkok, 1998. REP. Edition 220 pgs., $32.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Book provides a 17th century

description of Thailand at the time when France established diplomatic relations with Thailand under the reign of

King Narai.  Illustrated with rare maps and prints.

6358.) GESICK, LORRAINE M.: ->In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History.

  PB:Cornell Southeast Asia Program: Ithaca, NY, 1995.  98 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade size ed., a mint copy.

 

26127.) GILQUIN, MICHEL: ->The Muslims of Thailand.    PB:Silkworm Books: Chieng Mai, Thailand, 2005.  164

pgs., $17.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author is a sociologist specializing in the study of Muslim societies.  He

examines the origins of Islam in Siam, Muslim integration into the Thai nation, and the effects of globalization and

modernity on a mostly rural and traditional community.    In particular he considrrs the weight of history of the old

sultanate of Patani on the present-day Yawi speaking majority in Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani.

 

9382.) GINSBURG, HENRY: ->Thai Art and Culutre: Historic Manuscripts from Western Collections. HC:Unviersity of

Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, HI, 2000. 1st Edition 138 pgs., $19.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book contains 70 color

 

7834.) GINSBURG, HENRY: ->Thai Manuscript Paintings. HC:University of Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, HI, 1989.  112

pgs., $15    A mint copy in a mint d/j. An illustrated study in which the author examines the dominant themes and

narratives in a wide range of manuscript paintings.  There are 27 colour and 46 black-and-white photographs.

 

8879.) GOETHE INSTITUTE:  ->Thai Artists and 'The Goethe': Forty Years of Cultural Interaction.    PB:White Lotus

Ltd.: Bangkok, 2000.  142 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Contains a series of articles of the Goethe

Institute and 54 color illustrations as well as a large number of black and white photos.

 

8717.) GOODDEN, CHRISTIAN: ->Around Lan-Na: A Guide to Thailand's Northern Border Region, From Chiang Mai

to Nan.    PB:Jungle Books: Suffolk, England, 1999.  433 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is not a

conventional travel book as it provides  an depth cultural account of the area and maps out  exciting off-the-beaten

track  border journeys by public transport, motorcycle, and on foot from Chiang Mai to Nan..  Contains 36

photographs and 32 maps.

28032.) GOODDEN, CHRISTIAN: ->Hinterlands: Sixteen New Do-It-Yourself Jungle Treks in Thailand's Nan and Mae

Hong Son Provinces.    PB:Jungle Books: London, 2001.  384 pgs., $27.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy.

 

8718.) GOODDEN, CHRISTIAN: ->Trek It Yourself in Northern Thailand: Twenty-Five Solo Jungle Treks on Foot and

By Motorcycle.    PB:Jungle Books: Halesworth, England, 2000.  414 pgs., $32.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy.

Details treks that persons can take in the provinces of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Nan and Mae Hong Son.  Contains 50

 maps and 36 pages of photographs.

 

5879.) GOODMAN, JIM: ->Meet the Akhas.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1996.  138 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed.,

a fine copy. Book has 92 llustrations in color.  Author has lived in Chiang Mai since 1988.

 

7659.) GREENE, STEPHEN LYON WAKEMAN: ->Absolute Dreams: Thai Government Under Rama VI, 1910-1925.

 PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1999.  224 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., very light colorization on top edge, o/w a

fine copy. The author examines the troubled reign of the nation's first Western educated monarch.   Foreward by

David Wyatt.

27294.) HANDLEY, PAUL M.: ->The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej. HC:Yale

University Press:  New Haven, CT, 2006. 3rd Edition 499 pgs., $32.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j.

 

9702.) HANKS, JANE RICHARDSON & LUCIEN ->Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier.    PB:Yale University

Southeast Asia Studies: New Haven, CT, 2001.  319 pgs., $25 A mint copy.

 

2297.) HASEMAN, JOHN B.: ->The Thai Resistance Movement During the Second World War.    PB:Silkworm Books:

Bangkok, 2002. REP. Edition 177 pgs., $17.5 A reprint edition, mint as purchased new.

 

29331.) HASSNA, STEVE: ->The Short-Timer's Journal: Soldiering in Vietnam, No. 1.    PB:Winter Soldier Archive:

Berkeley, CA, 1980. 1ST Edition 112 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade edition, signed by author, a v/g copy. Memoir of a

Vietnam veteran who underwent a lot of personal problems adjsuting to civilian life after the war.

 

5506.) HAUCK, HAZEL M., SAOVANEE SUDANEH and JANE R. HANKS:->Food Habits and Nutrient Intakes In A

Siamese Rice Village: Studies in Bang Chan, 1952-1954.    PB:Cornell  Southeast Asia Program: Ithaca, NY, 1958.

138 pgs., $8.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.

 

9073.) HOLBROOK, R. D. & MANOB SURIYA: ->Blue Book of Coastal Vessels: Thailand. HC:White Lotus Co., Ltd.:

Bangkok, 2000. Rep. Edition 430 pgs., $35    A mint copy. Text is in Thai and English.

 

9244.) HOSSEUS, CARL CURT: ->Through King Chulalongkorn's Kingdom (1904-1906): the First Botanical

Exploration of Northern Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2001. REP. Edition 351 pgs., $25 Wraps trade

ed., a mint copy. A report made by Hosseus of his trip to Northern Thailand with  a stop at Huay Sai to visit  the

French governor stationed there.  Contains 93 illustrations, translated by Walter  E.J. Tips.

 

7186.) HOWARD, Eds. MICHAEL C., WATTANA WATTANAPUN and ALEC GORDON:->Traditional T'ai Arts in

Contemporary Perspective.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1998.  244 pgs., $32.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy.

Book explores a variety of forms of artistic expression, including weaving and fashion, carving, painting, and

dancing, as well as boxing.   There are 71 pages of color photos.

 

19975.) HOWARD, MICHALE C. & WATTANA WATTANAPUN:->The Palaung in Northern Thailand.    PB:Silkworm

Books: Chiang Mai, 2001.  114 pgs., $18.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An anthropological account of Palaung

who settled in Chiang Mai in 1980s after fleeing from Burma.

 

8234.) HUDAK, THOMAS JOHN: ->The Tale of Prince Samuttakote: A Buddhist Epic from Thailand.    PB:Ohio

University: Athens, OH, 1997. 1st Edition 276 pgs., $20 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is a translation of three

poets that was begun during the reign of King Naray (1656-1688) and completed in 1849.

 

6263.) HUXLEY,  Ed. ANDREW: ->Thai Law: Buddhist Law: Essays On the Legal History of Thailand, Laos and

Burma.    PB:White Orchid Press: Bangkok, 1996.  210 pgs., $18 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book describes

 

7809.) INDOCHINA CHRONICLE: MAY-JUNE 1975. ->Thailand in a Changing Asia.    PB:Indochina Resourse

Center: Berkeley, CA, 1975.  20 pgs., $2.5 A v/g copy. The issue is devoted to the aftemath of the student revolt in

Thailand in 1973.  No postage charge if ordered with another book.

 

3778.) JACOBSEN, KAREN: ->Thailand. HC:Childrens Press:  Chicago, 1989. 3rd Edition 48 pgs., $15.95

Reinforced binding, mint as purchased new. Book is written for lower elementary students.

 

29284.) JAYANAMA, DIREK: ->Thailand and World War II. HC:Silkworm Books:  Chieng Mai, Thailand, 2008. REP.

Edition 566 pgs., $59.5    A mint copy published without d/j.  Photos are shown on cover however along with a photo

 of the author. Memoir of former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand when Thailand was forced on December 8th,

1941 to acede to Japan's demand that its troops be permitted safe passage through Thai territory on their way to

attack Singapore.  In 1942, he was appointed to be  Thai Ambassdor to Japan,  returning in 1943 where he became

involed with the Free Thai movement.  After the war, he played a major role in having Thailand admitted to the

United Nations in 1948.  Publsihed in 1967,his work has been translated by Jane Keyes.

 

24356.) JONES, TRISTAN: ->To Venture Further: An Incredible Boat Journey Across the Waterways of Thailand.

PB:Sheridan House: Dobbs Ferry, NY, 1999.  302 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An account of a trip across

 the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand.

 

26429.) JONSSON, HJORLEIFUR: ->Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand.    PB:Cornell

University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2005. 1st Edition 181 pgs., $20.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book provides a

detailed ethnography of the Mien people of Thailand.

 

7654.) JOTTRAND, Mr. & Mrs. EMILE: ->In Siam: The Diary of a Legal Advisor of King Chulalongkorn's Government.

    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1996. REP. Edition 457 pgs., $35 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. Book is a

travelogue by Emile Jottrand and his wife.  Jottrand was a Belgian assistant legal adviser in the Siamese Ministry of

Justice during the period 1898-1902.

7767.) JUDD, LAURENCE C.: ->Dry Rice Agriculture in Norhtern Thailand.    PB:seap Program of Cornell University:

Ithaca, NY, 1964.  86 pgs., $7.5 Wraps monograph, a v/g copy.

 

6273.) KAEMPFER, ENGELBERT: ->A Description of the Kingdom of Siam: 1690.    PB:White Orchid Press:

Bangkok, 1987. REP. Edition 97 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. A travel account  to Siam by a German in

 

27615.) KAOSA-ART, Ed. MINGSARN; ->Mekong Tourism: Blessings for All?    PB:Social Research Institute: Chiang

Mai University, Thail., 2007.  262 pgs., $24.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book provides regional writers'

perspectives on the effects of tourism development and growth on local people with particualr emphasis on rural

communiites and the poor.

24547.) KEPNER, SUSAN F.: ->Married to the Demon King: Sri Daoruang and Her Demon Folk.    PB:Silkworm

Books: Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2004. 1st Edition 131 pgs., $12.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is built around

six short novels that deal with love and  marriage in contemporary Thailand .

 

2210.) KEYES, CHARLES F.: ->ISAN: Regionalism in Northeastern Thailand.    PB:Southeast Asia Program: Cornell

Univ.: Ithaca, N.Y., 1967.  86 pgs., $12.5 A photocopied reprint in softcard cover.

 

4477.) KINGSHILL, KONRAD: ->Ku Daeng-Thirty Years Later: A Village Study in Northern Thailand 1954-1984.

PB:Northern Illinois Center for SE Asian Studies: DeKalb, IL, 1991. 4th Edition 314 pgs., $19.95 Wraps trade ed., a

mint copy. The fourth edtions of a study begun in 1953-54 and updated with new field data every ten years.   This

volume contains valuable material on Noorthern Thai village life, rituals, and beliefs.

 

2213.) KIRKUP, JAMES: ->Bangkok. HC:A. S. Barnes & Co.:  Cranbury, N.J., 1968. 1st Edition 101 pgs., $6    Ex-

library, markings spine of d/j, title page, top edge & enpaper removed.  A v/g copy in a good plus d/j. Title is part of

 

23306.) KLAUSNER, WILLIAM J.: ->Reflections On Thai Culture.    PB:Siam Society: Bangkok, 1993.  397 pgs.,

$12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A collection of writings by William J. Klausner.

 

21340.) LABBE, ARMAND J.: ->Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective.    PB:White

 Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2002.  153 pgs., $49.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. The book focues exclusively on pottery;

its technology, production and srtistic development in Thailand in prehistory.  Over 2,500 years of potterymaking

spanning the periods from about 2200 B.C. to 500 A.D. are examined.

 

2219.) LE MAY, REGINALD: ->An Asian Arcady: The Land and Peoples of Northern Siam.    PB:White Lotus Co.,

Ltd.: Bangkok, 1999. 3rd Edition 274 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. The author served aas an advisor to

the Minister of Commerce and Communications in Thailand in the early part of the 20th centruy., being first

assigned in 1908 to the British Legation in Bangkok.  Book is heavily illustrated with fold-out maps.   This is a reprint

of the 1926 edition published by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd..

 

2220.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1981, APRIL 14TH: ->The Radiant Buddhas.    PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1981.  0

pgs., $4  A 7 page article on a Thailand art exhibition travelling in the United States.

2221.) LOMAX, LOUIS E.: ->Thailand: The War That Is, The War That Will Be.    PB:Vintage Books: New York,

1967. 1st Edition 175 pgs., $2.5 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author is critical of the American effort to deal

with the communist threat in Northeast Thailand at the time the book was written.  He went to Thailand and

interveiwed over a 100 Thai people from the Northeast, including insurgents as well as Americans working there.

 

 

9079.) LYTTLETON, CHRIS: ->Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand.    PB:White Lotus

Co.: Bangkok, 2000.  356 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An anthropological exploration of ways in which

 

8230.) MASAVISUT, Eds. NITAYA & MATTHEW GROSE: ->Thai Short Stories and Poems.    PB:Silkworm Books:

Chieng Mai, Thailand, 1998. REP. Edition 134 pgs., $12.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is an anthology of

11 contemporary Thai writers who have won prizes in various categories in the prestigious Asian Writers Award.

 

7663.) MATICS, K.I.: ->Introduction to the Thai Mural. HC:White Louts Press:  Bangkok, 1992. 1st Edition 139 pgs.,

$29.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j. The book contains 20 black and white plates and 45 colour plates.

 

7664.) MATICS, K.I.: ->Introduction to the Thai Temple. HC:White Lotus Press:  Bangkok, 1992. 1st Edition 141 pgs.,

 $29.5    A mint copy in a near fine d/j.  Small chip and some rubbing back of d/j. Book contians 31 colour plates

3160.) MATTHEW, EUNICE S.: ->The Land and People of Thailand. HC:J.B. Lippincott Co.:  Philadelphia, 1964.

1st Edition 160 pgs., $6    Ex-library, soiling outer edges, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is part of Portraits of the

Nations Series written for Junior High students, contains black & white photos.

 

8831.) McCARGO, DUNCAN: ->Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics.    PB:Hurst & Co.: London, 1997.

334 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An excellent analysis of Thai politics over the past two decades that is

provided through the biography of  Chamlong Srimuang, a former general and leader of the Phalang Tham Party,

who spearheaded the mass protest that ousted military strongman Suchinda Kraprayoon.

 

 

7240.) MCDONALD, N. A.: ->A Missionary in Siam (1860-1870).    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1999.  120 pgs.,

$12.5 Wraps trade ed., some fading of cover, o/w a fine copy. An interesting missionary account of an American

missionary who worked in Thailand.  Originally published as 'Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, etc. ' in

1871.

3594.) McFARLAND, Ed. GEORGE BRADLEY: ->Historical Sketch of Protestant Missions in Siam.    PB:White Lotus

Ltd.: Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition 386 pgs., $30 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Title was originally published in the

Bangkok Times Press in 1928.   Contains an introduction, commentary, a bibliography on Protestantism in Thailand

by Herbert R. Swanson.

2166.) McGILVARY, DANIEL: ->A Half Century Among the Siamese and the Lao.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

2002. REP. Edition 435 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., light fading of outside cover, o/w a  fine copy.  Fold-out map in

pocket on back inside cover. An autobiography of a Protestant missionary who went to Chiang Mai in 1867 to set up

a mission..  There is an introduction by Herbert R. Swanson.

 

8218.) McMAKIN, PATRICK D.: ->Flowering Plants of Thailand: A Field Guide. HC:White Lotus Ltd.:  Bangkok, 2000.

 3rd Edition 140 pgs., $39.5    A mint copy in a mint d/j. Text is identical to that of 'A Field Guide to the Flowering

Plants of Thailand ' but it has been completely re-typeset in a more compact format.  Contains 502 color

photographs of plants.

 

3777.) McNAIR, SYLVIA: ->Thailand. HC:Childrens Press:  Chicago, 1994. 5th Edition 128 pgs., $25.95    Library

binding, laminateed cover with color picture of Wat Phra Keo in Bangkok on front, mint as purchased new. Book is

part of the 'Enchantment of the World' series and is for upper elementary grades.  Excellent  photographs in color

and informative text.

8242.) MILLER, TERRY E. and  JAREMCHAI  CHONPAIROT: CHONPAIROT:->A History of Siamese Music

Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505-1932.    PB:Center SEA Studies, Northern IlL.s: Dekalb, IL, 1995.  267

 pgs., $17.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This study seeks to reconstruct Siamese musical history in the absence of

reliable indigenous sources, while also evaluating the Western sources' strengths and shortcomings.

 

2305.) MOERMAN, MICHEAL: ->The Village World and the Larger World: Aspects of Village Life in Northern

Thailand.    PB:U.S. Infromation Agency: Bangkok, 1960.  26 pgs., $2.5 A photocopied reprint.

 

19981.) MOLLE, FRANCOIS & THIPPAWAL SRIJANTR:->Agrarian Change and Land System in the Chao Phraya

Delta.    PB:Doras Center  Kasetsart University: Bangkok, 1999.  191 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.

 

19982.) MOLLE, FRANCOIS, NITTAYA NGEMPRASERTSRI, SAVAKON SUDSAWAD, & CHATCHOM

CHOMPADIST:->Patterns of Social Interaction and Organisation in Irrigated Agriculture: Case of Chao Phraya Delta.

    PB:Doras Center, Kasetsart University: Bangkok, 2001.  152 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.

 

19983.) MOLLE, FRANCOIS, THIPPAWAL SRIJANTR, LIONEL LATHAM, & PHUANGLADDA tHEPSTITSILP:->The

Impact of the Access to Irrigation Water on the Evolution of Farming Systems: Case Study of 3 Villages in Chao

Phraya Delta.    PB:Doras Center, Kasetsart University: Bangkok, 2001.  75 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a very fine

copy.

5739.) MORGENTHALER, HANS: ->Impressions of the Siamese-Malayan Jungle: A Tin-Prospector's Adventures in

Southern Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Co.: Bangkok, 1994. REP. Edition 240 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed., a near fine

 copy. Book was written by a Swiss geologist  and covers the period of 1917-1920.

 

28425.) MULDER, NIELS: ->Doing Thailand: The Anthropologist as a Young Dog in Bangkok in the 1960s.

PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2008. 1st Edition 101 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An account by an

anthropologist of life in Bangkok before the advent of traffic jams and the impact the Vietnam War had on the

capital.

7172.) MUNIER, CHRISTOPHER: ->Sacred Rocks and Buddhist Caves in Thailand.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

1998.  266 pgs., $39.5 Wraps trade ed., top edge of front cover has a crease, o/w a fine copy. This book places rocks

and caves as sacred sites in their historical, cultural and religious context.  Book is lavishly illustrated with 300 plates,

 maps and plans, and provides useful  practical information on how to get to the rocks and caves shown in this

publication.

 

6260.) MURRAY, DAVID: ->Angels and Devils: Thai Politics From Febraury 1991 to September 1992.    PB:White

Orchid Press: Bangkok, 1996. 1st Edition 314 pgs., $23 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A detailed analysis of the

political events in Thailand from the military coup in February 1991, to the election of the government headed by

Democrat Party and its leader Khun Chuan Leekpai, in September 1992.

 

19970.) NABARATH, DILOK: ->Siam's Rural Economy Under King Chulalongkorn.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

2000. Rep. Edition 314 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is based on the disseratation by Prince Dilok

Nabarath submitted for a at the University of Tubingen, Germany.   Translated by Walter Tips.

 

8562.) NABARATH, DILOK: ->Siam's Rural Economy Under King Chulalongkorn.    PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok,

2000. REP. Edition 314 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is based on a dissertation at the University of

Tubingen, Germany by the author who was the son of King Chulalongkorn.    Translation by Walter E.J. Tips.

 

2310.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1928, FEBRUARY: ->The Warfare of the Jungle Folk. HC::  , .  0 pgs., $6  PB:: , .

0 pgs., $7.5 Wraps, a v/g copy. A 35 page article with 33 photos, dealing with wild game hunting in Northern

 

2978.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1934, MAY: ->Land of the Free in Asia, 2. Temples & Ceremonies of

Kaleidoscopic Bangkok & 3. Among the Plains & Hill People of Siam Siam.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy.

Written W. Robert Moore with 29 black & white illustrations and 26 natural color photographs of temples and of the

hill people.

2311.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1947, FEBRUARY: ->Scintillating Siam.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $4  Article by W. Robert

Moore, 30 colored photographs with seven illustrations & map.  Also, there follows a short article by D. Sonakul titled

 

2312.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1961, JUNE: ->Thailand Bolsters Its Freedom.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $3 A v/g plus copy.

 Written by W. Robert Moore.

 

2314.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1967, JULY: ->Hopes and Fears In Booming Thailand.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $3 A v/g

copy. Article written by Peter T. White and Dean Conger.

 

2315.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1973, JULY: ->Bangkok, City of Angels.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $2.5 A v/g copy. Article

written by William Graves and John Launois.

2316.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1982, OCTOBER: ->Thailand: Royalty At Work and 2. Thailand: Luck of a Land In

the Middle.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $3 A v/g copy. Articles by Denis Gray and Bart McDowell.  Photographs by John

 

28476.) NATIONAL IDENTITY BOARD, ->Thailand in the 90s.     Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.

 

27574.) NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUNTEER GROUP,  ->Treasures from the National Museum Bangkok.    PB:Thai

Wantana Panich Press: Bangkok, 1987.  99 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Book has 157 color photos

with descriptions along with an introduction, glossary and a bibliography.

 

2317.) NEALE, FRED ARTHUR: ->Narrative of a Residence At the Capital of The Kingdom of Siam.    PB:White

Lotus: Bangkok, 1997. REP. Edition 252 pgs., $22.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author was in the service of King

Rama the Third which provided him with an insiders view of life in Thailand during the early 1840s.

 

20551.) NELSON, Ed. MICHAEL H.: ->Thailand's New Politics: KPI Yearbook 2001.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,

2002.  509 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Tis yearbook looks at aspects of what has been called political

reform in Thailand.  The various contributors to this volume present a  more realistic understanding of what is now

occurring in Thailand.  The KPI is the King Prajadhipok's Institute that was established in 1998 by the National

assembly  to promote democracy through research and training..

8217.) NELSON, MICHAEL H.: ->Central Authority and Local Decocratization in Thailand: A Case Study from

Chachoengsao Province.    PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 1998.  324 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy.

Author is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University.

 

2319.) NUECHTERLEIN, DONALD E.: ->Thailand and the Struggle for Southeast Asia. HC:Cornell University Press:

Ithaca, N.Y., 1965. 1st Edition 279 pgs., $12.5    A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.   Another copy, ex-library, $10.00, a v/g

copy. Author covers Thailand's foreign policy during and after World War II with the focus on Thailand's loss of faith

in SEATO.

22580.) OFFICE OF NATIONAL MUSEUMS PUBLICATION: ->The Bronze Kettle Drums in Thailand. HC:Office of

National Museums:  Bangkok, 2003.  304 pgs., $35    A mint copy in a v/g plus d/j. Text in Thai and English, many

 

8555.) PALLEGOIX, JEAN-BAPTISTE: ->Description of the Thai Kingdom or Siam: Thailand Under King Mongkut.

 PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 2000. REP. Edition 430 pgs., $27.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Originally

published in 1854 in two volumes.  Author became Bishop of Siam and neighboring countries.   Trnanslated by

Walter E.J. Tips.

28370.) PELEGGI, MAURIZIO: ->The Politics of Ruins and the Business of Nostalgia.     Wraps trade ed., a fine copy

Monograph investigates the theory and practice of heritage conservaton in Thailand, focusing in particular on the

period from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s.  It questions the commonplace glorification of historic sties as tangible

signs of past glory of the Thai nation.

21854.) PELTIER, ANATOLE-ROGER: ->Tai Khoeun Literature.    PB:Editions Duang Kamol: Bangkok, 1987. 1st

Edition 262 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. French, English and Thai text.   Publication was a

cooperative effort between Ecole Franciase E'Extreme Orient and Social Science Research Institute of Chiang Mai

University.

 

5813.) PERIPLUS TRAVEL MAP:  ->Bangkok and Central Thailand Map.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $7.95 Mint as purchased

new. Scale for Central Thailand is 1:1,000,000, Bangkok 1:15,000 and Pattaya  1:40,000.

5814.) PERIPLUS TRAVEL MAPS  ->Thailand Country Map.    PB:: , .  0 pgs., $7.95 Mint as purchased new. Scale

fo rThailand is 1:2,000,000, Southern Thaialnd 1:2,000,000, Phuket 1:110,000 and Samui and Phangan

1:1000,000.  City plans included are Bangkok 1:15,000, Chiang Mai 1:25,000, Pattaya 1:50,000 and Phuket Town

1:12,000.

21579.) PHILLIPS, HERBERT P.: ->Modern Thai Literature with An Ethnographic Interpretation. HC:University of

Hawaii Press:  Honolulu, HI, 1987.  391 pgs., $24.5    A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Book  is a presentation of the

 major writings published in Thailand during the 1960s and 1970s  and  is a systematic attempt to use contemorary

literature to explore the cultural premises of a complex non-Western society.  A large portion of the volume is

devoated to the writings themselves-essays, short stories, poems, a short play and song lyrics.

 

 

9758.) PHONGPAICHIT, PASUK & CHRIS BAKER: ->Thailand's Crisis.    PB:Silkworm Books: Bangkok, 2000.  275

pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Book is a review of the effect the IMF had on the Thai economy.

 

24551.) PHONGPAICHIT, PASUK and CHRIS BAKER: ->Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand.

PB:Silkworm Books: Chieng Mai, Thailand, 2004. 1st Edition 302 pgs., $21.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An

account of Thaksin's background and rise in the political scene of Thailand with an analysis as to his impact on

Thailand's economy, society, and democracy.  Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University,

Bangkok.

20478.) PHONGPHIT, SERI and KEVIN HEWISON: ->Village Life: Culture and Transition in Thailand's Northeast.

PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2001. Rev. Edition 169 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book provides

insights into village life in Northeast Thailand, showing haw this has changed under the pressures of economic

development.

21580.) POSHYANANDA, APINAN: ->Modern Art in Thailand: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. HC: