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Publicado por KELLY & WALSH LIMITED, SHANGHAI, 1941
Librería: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. Orange Paper covered boards with black cloth quarter-binding270 x 195 mm approx. 36 pp. 15 full page illustrations in conte crayon with text opposite accompanied by small detailed sketches. First Edition 1941 1st printing.The author lived for17 months in China's much bombed Wartime Capital where she observed and sought to capture in her art work it's interesting characters. The book therefore provides an interesting social history of the time. The book is quite uncommon particularly in it's dust jacket and although that which we are able to offer is defective having significant chips/loss to the upper panel along the top edge and also to the spine it remains quite presentable on the shelf in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. The book is uncommon in it's first edition state due to war time destruction. VG/Poor (Book- shelf wear to cloth involving a little fraying to tail of spine. Boards clean with no significant shelf wear. Ink gift inscription to front free end paper. Dust Jacket - chips as mentioned above of up to 15mm in depth to top edge of front panel and up to 120 mm section around spine with small chips to head and tail of up to 20mm together with general rubbing/nicks to extremities and some mild to moderate shelf soiling). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.