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Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 1940 Hardcover cloth 4to, 153pp. Copiously illustrated with black and white plates. VG+ with slight rippling to the spine and an air bubble in the front pastedown. Faint foxing/tanning. In a very good dust jacket with 6 small chips to the edges, none more than 1cm deep. Protected in mylar wrapper. 2 Chinese bookseller's stickers to the front pastedown, else clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Shanghai: The Commercial Press. Fair. 1939. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards show heavy rubbing to edges and corners. Binding shaken with crack appearing at title page. Occasional finger smudges on pages. No notes or other marking. ; Large/heavy book: international buyers may be charged for additional shipping costs.; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. 1940 Hardcover cloth 4to, 153pp. Copiously illustrated with black and white plates. Very Good with slight rippling to the spine, rubbing at spine-ends and corners, rear corner lightly bumped, light soiling / age toning to endpapers, age toning to contents. Chinese bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown.

Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Fair. This is an English language edition, 1939. Presumed first printing of the first edition. Printed and bound in Shanghai. 10.75 x 7.75 inches. Bound in aubergine-colored buckram boards, with fairly crisp gilt-stamped lettering and design to the front and spine. Generally unbumped spine head and tail, and with impressively sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Subtly patterned pastedowns. 153 numbered pages of text, plus 222 B&W full page plates and illustrations on semi-glossy coated stock. An impressively clean interior, save for 2x2 inch publisher/bookseller label to the front pastedown and with slight off-setting to the opposite FEP. Also with calling card of Mr. Max Edward Vittaly [1898-1984] neatly pasted to the front FEP. Slight age toning to all pages. Else no demerits noticed. With the rarely found original dust jacket. Evident chipping losses to the DJ and moderate staining along the… Read More