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Publicado por Vetch & Lee., Hong Kong., 1970
Librería: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Illustrated in black and white by Doris Worcester. 90pp, small mark reverse of price-clipped dustjacket, good hardback copy. 19 x 25cm. A history and description of the various Chinese water craft.
Publicado por Vetch & Lee, Hong Kong, 1970
ISBN 10: 0850590981ISBN 13: 9780850590982
Librería: Neil Ewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Publishers Cloth in Original Price Clipped Dustwrapper. A Couple of Closed Tears to Dustwrapper. Some Wear and Soiling. A Very Good Book. No Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images.
Publicado por Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1941
Librería: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Orange patterned paper covered hard boards over black cloth spine. Full page crayon or charcoal sketches of people in Chungking with a short text on the facing page, including cotton yarn worker, letter writer, and portable hat shop. A scarce book as many copes were destroyed by the Japanese occupying forces in Shanghai. In near fine condition, clean and unmarked internally.
Publicado por KELLY & WALSH LIMITED, SHANGHAI, 1941
Librería: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
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.
Publicado por Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1941, 1941
Librería: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hbk 4to 37pp lacks dj (as issued?) illustr b/w conte crayon sketches donor' inscn on fep very good clean boards and tight text shows very slight age-toning and an exceptionally rare and well-presented book.
Publicado por Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1941, 1941
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page, of this collection of sketches from her time in the Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing (Chungking). She was interned by the Japanese shortly after publication and died in 1945, making signed copies inevitably scarce. Doris Worcester (1893-1945) spent a considerable amount of time in China alongside her husband, G. R. G. Worcester, who worked for the Chinese Maritime Customs Service for three decades. After the beginning of the Second World War in Asia, Worcester spent 17 months in Chongqing, the new capital of the Republic of China after the government was forced to abandon Nanjing. The present work showcases her pictorial impressions of Chongqing's everyday inhabitants, featuring sketches of tradesman, weavers, street sellers, and a Taoist mendicant. It is an excellent example of a longstanding genre of Western publishing on China in which illustrations of typical street figures are paired with explanatory text. In December 1941, Japanese forces invaded Shanghai's international settlement and the Worcesters were sent to an internment camp where they saw out the war. Doris Worcester died shortly after her release, and Some Chungking Types was reprinted in 1970 alongside her husband's The Floating Population in China: An Illustrated Record of the Junkmen and their Boats on Sea and River. This copy is from the library of the sinologist Keith Stevens (1926-2015), with his decorative bookplate to the front pastedown. Stevens, a British scholar-diplomat, was an authority on Chinese religion and iconography, publishing 36 articles and 2 books on the subject, including the definitive Chinese Gods: The Unseen World of Spirits and Demons (1997). Fittingly, his bookplate shows the Buddhist deity Wei Tuo, the "protector of books" and a guardian "against fire, destructive insects and dishonest borrowers." Quarto. Original black cloth-backed orange paper boards, title to front cover in black. With dust jacket. Illustrations throughout after crayon sketches by the author. Slight rubbing to extremities, light offsetting internally. A near-fine copy in the very good dust jacket with a few marks, several small chips, and toning along the creases.