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Kelly & Walsh. Collectible - Acceptable. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1934. 1st edition. Folio. 87pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Boards rubbed. Corners bumped. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. (China, Beijing, pictorial works) Inquire if you need further information.

Shangai: Kelly & Walsh. Very good copy. 1934. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 87 pp., Mounted b/w photo on front cover. Light soiling to beige cloth; bright spine., With photographic illustrations by the author using a Rolleiflex camera ( some hand-colored) and sketches by Friedrich Schiff, including a color map and humorous sketches which compliment and interact with the photographs. .

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/fair. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 87pp. Text and numerous photographic illustrations by Catleen from originals taken with her Rolleiflex camera. Charming coloured map and humorous black and white sketches by Schiff throughout the text. Printed in black and red. Silk boards with tipped-on photographic illustration. Light bump to spine bottom, light foxing to silk on spine and edges and light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge. Gift inscription, dated 1935 on ffep; ownership bookplate on paste-down. Dust jacket is foxed, with chips and tears, losses to top and bottom of spine area. Still an attractive and charming book.

1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited 1934). First Edition. Sketches by F H Schiff. Full page colour pictorial map, black and white photograph illustrations, black and white and colour sketches throughout, folio (15 x 10 1/2 inches), cloth covered boards with applied photographic illustration and ribbon with title text on front cover. Ellen Catleen was wife of the Dutch ambassador to China in the 1930s. Produced in Art Deco Style with Vignette Drawings by Schiff which perfectly compliment the reproductions of the beautiful gravure images of Peking originally taken with a Rolliflex camera. The book itself is VG indeed although the corners are slightly bumped and there is a small damp patch at the top left hand corner of the back board. In the VERY RARE D/W which matches the pictorial boards. A former owner of this copy had reinforced the edges of the D/W by un-necessarily attaching tape to the top and bottom edges of the D/W. This has now been… Read More