Samuel victor constant (6 Ergebnisse)
Colporteurs des rues de Pékin: Cris, bruits & produits (1936) (Langue-Civilisation) (French Edition)
- Softcover
Anbieter: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Vereinigtes KönigreichRia Christie Collections
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EUR 20,61
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Zustand: New. In.
- Softcover
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, , Deutschlandmoluna
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EUR 25,58
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Zustand: New.
Weitere BilderSprache: Englisch
Verlag: The Camel Bell, China 1936
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes KönigreichCheltenham Rare Books
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EUR 2.923,75
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +++. No Jacket ( as Issued ). First Edition ( ? ). Illustrated with colour lithographs and black and white photographs. Text primarily in English.Oblong octavo, original side-stitched silk clot with an orange paper cover label affixed to the front board. Decorated endpapers, French-folded leaves.Und…ated, but 1936. Presumed First edition. A bright, clean copy. The silk boards are unfaded and shap. They are - inevitably - a little frayed at the edges, but remain very bright. The orange label is bright. The pages are clean, the closed page edges are unmarked. No foxing. Both the front and the back free endpapers are creased. No inscriptions. The sewn binding is secure, and all pages are firmly attached. Bookseller's ticket -"The Peking Bookshop, Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Peking" - to rear pastedown. Corresponding stamp on the title page has been inked over. A much better copy than is usually seen. PayPal accepted.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Peking: The Camel Bell, [1936] 1936
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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EUR 895,02
EUR 25,49 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
First edition, capturing the rich tapestry of life in early 20th-century Beijing. The contents describe 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". In 1924, the author (1894-1989) was posted to China… to serve as a US military attaché, and he collected material for this book during his 12-year stay. The publisher, the Camel Bell, was a legendary shop based in the Grand Hôtel de Pekin and overseen by the American Helen Burton. Her store was popular with Westerners, who dropped in to buy silks, furs, curios, and art. Landscape octavo (184 x 262 mm). With 16 half-tone plates tipped in, white papercut, illustrations (some colour) in text. Original decorative brocade boards, red thread xianzhuang stitching, front board with red title label printed in black and backed with white papers, patterned endpapers. Boards bright, damp-staining at spine, cockling and tidemarks at gutter internally, a few photos creased: a good copy.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Peking: The Camel Bell, 1936 1936
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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EUR 4.176,78
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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 man…y 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 - Jing du jiaomai tu - was released in Beijing in 1994. This is a pleasing survival of Beijing's thriving early 20th-century expatriate cultural milieu. The publisher, the Camel Bell, was a legendary shop based in the Grand Hotel de Pekin and overseen by the American Helen Burton. Her store was popular with Westerners who dropped in to buy silks, furs, curios and art, and Burton appears regularly in many memoirs of Republican Beijing. This copy was sold by the Peking Bookshop, another favourite haunt of foreigners located within the Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lit in the Legation Quarter. Landscape octavo (184 x 262 mm). With 16 photographs tipped in, white papercut, colour illustrations of each type of pedlar and their wares, illustration of the eight trigrams, 2 musical scores of pedlar songs. Chinese thread xianzhuang-style binding, original decorative brocade boards, front board with title in black to red label mounted on white paper, orange and white patterned endpapers, folded leaves. Housed in original patterned case with title label. Bookseller's ticket ("The Peking Bookshop, Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Peking") to rear pastedown, corresponding redaction and overstamping of publisher imprint to title page. Joints professionally refurbished, brocade bright with small losses, contents lightly foxed and toned, else clean, photographs and illustrations attractive. A very good copy of this delicate publication in the very good case with moderate rubbing and two joints neatly repaired.
Weitere BilderAnbieter: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, Vereinigtes KönigreichGraham York Rare Books ABA ILAB
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EUR 2.327,06
EUR 18,54 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Zustand: A fine copy. No date, but 1936, Peking, The Camel Bell, landscape 4to, pp xiv, 1-66, 65-88, 87-186, original boards with colour pattern silk covers, silk thread binding, printed paper label, 61 colour lithographs of peddlers, 16 tipped-in black and white photographic illustrations, one page of Chinese text, one page of…music, one paper pattern, one ?ÄúPa Kua?Äùdiagram. Only 54 lithographs are listed, but there are 5 different Fortune Tellers, 2 different Candied Fruit Peddlers, 2 different Earthen Vessel Peddlers, and 2 different Match Peddlers. The author, a Westerner, prepared this work as a partial requirement for the Master of Arts degree at the College of Chinese Studies in Peking. A fascinating study into the life, habits and psychology of the Peking residents, who numbered some seven hundred thousand at this time.
