Search Results: HISTORY, "Hong Kong,China,India,Tibet" from Richard Thornton Books

New Haven: Yale University Press. Hardback Book.This is a Good Copy of this Book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.It's an ex college library copy with small stamp to the title page and with code markings along top edge of the same page.There is also one Library rules for borrowers plate affixed to the front pastedown.There is a little webbing showing through to the front gutter hinge join.Contents remain clean internally.Scarce title with 12 chapters plus Bibliographical note and a note on the currency,weights and statistics,plus Index.There are no previous names or inscriptions present.Couple of marks noted to the outer boards.8vo (xi) 399pp First US Edition 1st Impression [1934] . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1934.

London: H.M.S.O.. Hardback Book.This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the edges.Not price clipped.There are no previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Rare title with historical documents that illustrate the development of Hong Kong as an entrepot centre from it's beginnings in 1841 to the rise of recent industrialisation.A significant work with 2 large coloured folding maps at the end of the volume.The Dust-Wrapper comes well protected in an acetate removable cover sleeve.8vo 291pp with appendices First Edition [1964] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1964.