Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912
by Worswick, Clark and Jonathan Spence
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517533774
- ISBN 13
- 9780517533772
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Penwick / Crown, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover book in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Red boards with gold Chinese lettering on cover, gold lettering in English on spine. Light surface wear to bottom edge; small neatly penned previous owner name on front free endpaper. All pages and edges are clean. Foreword by Harrison Salisbury. Awesome historical photographs throughout this book, all from 1850-1912 in Imperial China. Clean dust jacket illustrated with sepia tone photograph is unchipped, not price clipped; one 1/2" closed tear at top rear panel edge; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Photographs collected from archives in Europe, America, and Asia, which have been unknown to the public until published in this book. They include images by Thomson, Miller, Beato, Wilson and Mennie--names familiar to historians of photography. But, additionally, ths collection emphasizes the significant contribution of lesser known photographers to our understanding of what China was like in the final decades of the Dragon Throne..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034062
- Title
- Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912
- Author
- Worswick, Clark and Jonathan Spence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517533774
- ISBN 13
- 9780517533772
- Publisher
- Penwick / Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- IMPERIAL CHINA, CHINA HISTORY, CHINESE CLARK WORSWICK, JONATHAN SPENCE, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHY, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- China;
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