Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
CONSTANT (Samuel)
Editorial: Peking, The Camel Bell, 1936.
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1 volume oblong octavo (19,5*26,5 cm), original embroidered chinese silk brocade sewn with orange silk cord in oriental style, printed orange label atop slightly larger blank white label mounted on front cover, free endpapers of patterned paper, XIV-185 pp., all on outer faces of accordion-fold leaves. With 62 color-printed and 31 mounted half-tone photographs of peddlers and their wares. Unfortunately the album has suffered humidity or water damage, causing some discoloration mostly on the first 10 pages of text and terminal pages and some wrinkles to the paper leaves. Overall fresh and fine. A small stamp shows the selling place: The Peking Bookshop (Grand Hôtel des Wagons-Lits),whose owner was Francis Vetch. "First edition of this very rare document on Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls. We got this useful information from Mr Quoching Li about the author and his work: "Samuel Victor Constant was born in 1894, a son of a lawyer who once was a student of Oriental languages at the Columbia University and then a member of the Oriental Society. Today we can only find that he was a U. S. Army Captain, came to Beijing in 1923 as an Assistant Military Attaché of the American Legation. In 1924, he went to the front line of the Zhi-Feng War as an observer. The year later, he joined as a representative of the Legation the rescue effort of Harvey James Howard, an American doctor of Union Hospital kidnapped by bandits in Northeast China for about ten weeks. While working for the American Legation, he also attended College of Chinese Studies (known as California College in China in the U.S.). He received his Master Degree in 1936 with a thesis titled Calls, sounds and merchandise of the Peking street peddler. The typewritten copy of this thesis is 103 pages long, with color illustrations and photos, 20 by 27 cm in size, currently hold by Occidental College Library, California. In the same year, a revised and typeset edition was published by Camel Bell in Beijing. The University of California at Berkeley owns one copy of this edition. It is under the same title but 187 pages long, has photos, black/white and color illustrations. Constant signed his name in Chinese as Kang Shidan, and thanked in the Preface his teacher and friend Chin Yue-p o, the College Dean William B. Pettus, for their guide and help on producing this work.". N° de ref. del artículo 2082
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Título: Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking ...
Editorial: Peking, The Camel Bell, 1936.
Edición: 1st Edition
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1. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers(Chinese Edition)
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Beijing Library Press; 1 (January 1, 2004)
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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: New. Language:Chinese,English.Author:sai miao er � wei ke duo � kang si tan te (Constant Samuel Victor).Binding:Soft Cover.Publisher:Beijing Library Press; 1 (January 1, 2004). Nº de ref. del artículo: 110641
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2. Calls, Sound and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
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National Library of China Press, [Beijing, China]
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Descripción Softcover. Green & illus. wraps, 100 pp., color illus. Text is in English and Chinese. Originally written as a master's thesis by American military man Samuel Victor Constant (1894-1989), who was stationed in China. First published in the 1930s, and then in a limited edition hardback with woodcuts in 1993. This paperback copy uses "the original pictures and relevant materials and then repainted in line drawing," according to the editor's note. Nice, and perhaps difficult to find. VG (Slight color change at outer spine; otherwise Like New.). Nº de ref. del artículo: 144239
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3. CALLS, SOUNDS & MERCHANDISE OF THE PEKING STREET PEDDLERS
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Descripción Bird & Bull Press Ilustrador. small 4to. quarter red morocco with patterned blue cloth sides, leather spine label, clamshell box. 156, (3) pages. With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Berger A54). Printed on Arches mouldmade paper and composed in Perpetua types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry with binding by Campbell-Logan. Covey created 25 woodcuts showing Chinese street peddlers specifically for this book. Morris printed the woodcuts directly from the wood and has tipped them in throughout the text. This beautifully produced book reminds us why Henry Morris and his Bird & Bull Press is considered one of the premier private presses in America. A separate woodcut in paper frame is loosely inserted. Prospectus loosely inserted. Housed in a later clamshell box. quarter red morocco with patterned blue cloth sides, leather spine label, clamshell box. Nº de ref. del artículo: 39437
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4. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
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Descripción Fabric-covered Paper. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Published. 1st Ed. 10 1/2" x 8 1/4" 185 pp. No date but presentation inscription of 1937. Bound in patterned woven silk., tied with silk cord at spine Photo illustrations are tipped in, line illustrations are hand-colored. Clean, unmarked. Moisture rippling to upper front corner of last few pages, apros 1" x 1" Presentation inscription on front endpapers from Tientsin," to Staff Sargent & Mrs. Lane. "Front fablic hinge is tender but holding. Described on title page as "submitted to the California College in China in part fulfilment (sic) of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." A truly extraordinary book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 500469
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Descripción Hardcover. The Camel Bell. 1936. Peking. Hardcover. Quarto (large format - book's length is horizontal). Condition: Good. The beautifully decorated covers are made of red, blue, and green embroidered silk brocade, embraced on the spine by an orange silk cord. The covers do not show much evidence of use. The red paste-on title to cover rests atop a white paste-on paper underneath, which has the effect of producing a one-eighth inch white border to surround the plate. The endpapers, front and back, are of a mottled orange and white design. The sewn binding is secure, and all pages are firmly attached. There is, however, one small spot, between the front two endpapers, that is worn, and reveals a glimpse of the green-threaded binding underneath. Approximately half of the pages are accordion-fold. The pages do show use, primarily surface waviness, which is most prominent in the first third of the book, and there are spots of subtle creasing, likely partially incurred from the action of page-turning and simply the passage of time. This issue is slightly more pronounced on the title page and the succeeding five pages. There are 60 colored lithograph plates depicting some of the most distinctive Peking street peddlers of times past. Each lithograph is comprised of two sections, one showing the peddler plying his trade and the other bearing a close-up of his product, or the tool or instrument which he uses in his trade (i.e. in the blind fortune teller lithograph there is a close-up of the object he uses to tell fortunes). Some of the street peddlers are 'Sugar Figure Blower', 'Clay Utensil Peddler', 'Braid Peddler', 'Reed Horn Seller', 'Almond Tea Peddler', 'Trained Monkey Man', and 'Candied Fruit Peddler'. Women in this period of China's past seldom ventured form their homes, so buying the needed items from the street peddlers was the way they were able to supply their daily needs. There are also 16 tipped-in photographs, depicting various activities of Peking's citizens, including, for example, a puppet show, and a Peking barber. There is one framed and tipped-in paper floral pattern. One page depicts the Asian symbol for peace and is labeled 'Pa Kua', or eight diagrams. The author, born in 1894, came to Beijing in 1923 as an assistant military attache of the American Legation. While working for the Legation he also attended the College of Chinese Studies in Peking, where, as partial requirement for the degree of Master of Arts, he produced this remarkable book. Includes a short bibliography. The book is enclosed in its original cardboard slipcase, which is completely enclosed in paper decoration of the same colored pattern as that of the book. It also has the identical paste-on colored label as the book. The case has four tears at the bottom, along the ridges (two at each end) and two tears at the top, also at the ridges, at the right foredge. The decorative paper is worn in several places along the ridges at the top and bottom of the slipcase. The book still fits rather snugly inside. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010681
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6. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
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The Camel Bell, Peking
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Descripción Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. tipped-in photos, black/white and color sketches Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Near fine, original silk embroidered boards with orange silk cord binding in the Chinese style. 16 tipped-in photos, 60 colored plates of peddlers, one paper pattern and one diagram. All fine, with no foxing or stains or browning, on the outer faces of double pages. An important and rare piece of American resident scholarship in China. The author was a Chinese linguist and member of the American military legation from 1923 to at least 1936. He also earned a Masters Degree, with this study of street activity in Peking as his thesis, in 1936. Nº de ref. del artículo: 077871
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7. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. Submitted to the California College in China in Part Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.
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Peking: The Camel Bell, 1936
(1936)
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Descripción First edition, first printing, of this rich record of street life in Republican Beijing written by an American military attaché. Employing candid photographs, colourful drawings, and even musical scores, the work captures the itinerant and human side of Chinese urban economic life in the 1930s aspects less well recorded in many travel narratives and photobooks. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise details 54 types of pedlar, divided according to the season where they are most active, including the "toy peddler", the "feet fixer", and the intriguingly named "running band boat". The author, Samuel Victor Constant (1894-1989), was a US Army officer and a specialist in Asian languages. In 1924, he was posted to China to serve as a military attaché and, during 12 years in Beijing, he gathered material for the present work. Shortly after his death, it was republished by the Bird & Bull Press in the United States, while a Chinese translation - Jing du jiaomai tu - was released in Beijing in 1994. This is a pleasing survival of Beijing's thriving early 20th-century expatriate cultural milieu. The publisher, the Camel Bell, was a legendary shop based in the Grand Hotel de Pekin and overseen by the American Helen Burton. Her store was popular with Westerners who dropped in to buy silks, furs, curios and art, and Burton appears regularly in many memoirs of Republican Beijing. This copy was sold by the Peking Bookshop, another favourite haunt of foreigners located within the Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lit in the Legation Quarter. Landscape octavo (184 x 262 mm). Chinese thread xianzhuang-style binding, original decorative brocade boards, front board with title in black to red label mounted on white paper, orange and white patterned endpapers, folded leaves. Housed in original patterned case with title label. With 16 photographs tipped in, white papercut, colour illustrations of each type of pedlar and their wares, illustration of the eight trigrams, 2 musical scores of pedlar songs. Bookseller's ticket ("The Peking Bookshop, Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Peking") to rear pastedown, corresponding redaction and overstamping of publisher imprint to title page. Joints professionally refurbished, brocade bright with small losses, contents lightly foxed and toned, else clean, photographs and illustrations attractive. A very good copy of this delicate publication in the very good case with moderate rubbing and two joints neatly repaired. Nº de ref. del artículo: 150570
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8. Calls,Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. A rare and in exceptional condition a copy of this lovely volume which illustrates the calls and sounds of Peking street peddlers. The illustraions range from actual photos of the chacter or place or a hand painted depiction. 185pp. The sleeve of which the volume fits in has matching cloth (of the volume) but is worn. Shipping is free. Copy was acquired by someone who was living in Peking at this time. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2618
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9. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. Peking, The Camel Bell, [1936].
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Descripción Oblong 8vo. Pp. xiv, 66, 65-88, 87-185 + one leaf with the "Pa Kua", 61 coloured lithograph plates of peddlers, 16 tipped-in halftone photographs, one paper pattern and one diagram. As issued in original boards covered with beautiful multicoloured silk, printed title label on upper cover. Housed in the original decorated paper case, worn.First edition of this charming and informative work on street vendors in Peking. It describes 54 different kinds of peddlers including their characteristic sound or call, and what they have to sell, buy, or trade. Each is accompanied by an illustration of the vendor himself and his commodity. A few examples: the melon seed trader, "feet fixer", "moon cake" vendor, travelling magicians, "bundle cake" peddler, "used silver" buyer, and different kinds of fortune tellers. Constant's original work was presented as part of his Maste's degree at the California College in China (April 1936). A beautiful copy well-protected in the rare original folder. Nº de ref. del artículo: 100705
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