Calls, Sounds & Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers by CONSTANT, Samuel Victor; Rosemary COVEY - 1993

Beijing Library Press; 1 (January 1. 2004), 2000-01-01. paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback . Pages Number: 100 Language: Chinese. English . Publisher: Beijing Library Press; 1 (January 1. 2004) . Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. quarter red morocco with patterned blue cloth sides, leather spine label, clamshell box. Bird & Bull Press. 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.

Beijing, China: The Camel Bell, 1936 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.. 1st Ed.. Fabric-covered Paper. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. 10 1/2" x 8 1/4".

Peking: The Camel Bell,, 1936. The Chinese city that never slept 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 -… Read More