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10207Published by Technical Advertising Service, printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, circa 1954. 1 large volume, 4 vo, 171 pp., modern blue leather binding, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Very good condition.
10994Published by Technical Advertising Service, printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, circa 1954. 1 large volume, 4 vo, 171 pp., blue and grey cloth boards, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Very good condition. An other copy with modern blue leather binding.
Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 234pp. Social policy and gender issues relating to women and housing in Hong Kong. Extremely scarce. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
1923169865Canada: Canadian Pacific Steamships 1923. A lively statement of the merits of Hong Kong as a business and tourist destination. "You've seen China on the screen; you've read of it in a book. But you need the purr of 'richsha tires and the pad of a coolie's feet; you need to get down and walk right into the picture before you feel the magic of it - the real Cathay!" pp. 6-7. The final page details the 23 offices in North America where budding travellers can buy tickets for winter trips. Institutional holdings are understandably scarce; WorldCat show a single copy at Trinity College United States. Small octavo pp. 12. Illustrations in text. Original blue wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black with colour illustration of junk. Wrappers soiled with a little damp staining and light rubbing contents clean. A well-preserved example of this ephemeral publication. unknown
1957157747Hong Kong: Rotary Club of Kowloon 1957. A charming souvenir of the Rotary Club of Kowloon's annual fundraising bash for 1957 now hard to find in commerce and unrecorded in institutional collections. In the 1950s the club's balls were lavish affairs attracting everyone from the British governor downwards and garnering significant attention in the local press. The many adverts and messages from its commercial sponsors showcase a bygone era of Hong Kong business. Formed in 1948 in the wake of the Japanese occupation the club raised $350000 in its first ten years to fund community projects and scholarships. According to the menu printed in this programme this year members tucked into fruit cocktail consomme royale fillet of sole caprice Spanish-style roast chicken and pear belle Helene while the entertainment included dances impressions and bongo drumming. Octavo. Adverts throughout 4 leaves printed on blue paper. Original decorative card wrappers front cover lettered in blue. Several small circular stains on front wrapper and first leaf else clean and bright internally. A near-fine copy. unknown
1969188451Hong Kong: Tourist Association c.1969. First editions of these bilingual guides each promising to list only retailers committed to value for money honest trading and polite service. The folding map sheets show both the Victoria and Kowloon districts. 2 works small octavo. With 2 folding maps. Original illustrated wrappers. One issue with contemporary ink notation on rear cover and internally. Very good. unknown
1965192454Hong Kong: Servicemen's Guides c.1965. A guide to Hong Kong issued by the Servicemen's Guides Association a civilian group created to provide material and spiritual aid to US sailors calling into port. The booklet gives the best retail and tourist pit-stops information on hotels and exchange rates and a bilingual list of handy phrases. Sailors are warned to buy selectively: "U.S. Treasury Department regulations prohibit the importation into the United States of any merchandise originating in Communist China or North Korea" p. 24. Duodecimo 28 pp. Original illustrated card wrappers maps of Hong Kong and Kowloon on rear folding wrapper. Very good. unknown
Features: Northern Pacific Railway Co. Making Big Improvements in the State of Washington; Julius Kruttschnitt an Optimist; Mobilization and the Railways - article from the Army & Navy Journal; Amending Our Shipping Laws; George G. Gould Retains His Position; Railway News in Brief; Noted Engineer E.C. Hawkins - Obituary with photo; Interstate Commerce Decisions; San Francisco Will Be Ready for the Panama Canal and the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 - article with photos of "San Francisco's Two Big Men", James Rolph Jr., Mayor, and C.C. Moore; Statutory Regulation of Ocean Traffic; Pacific Coast S.S. Co. Places Order for 10,000-Ton Steamer - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Comprehensive Review of Far Eastern Shipping Situation by U.S. Consul General at Hong Kong, George E. Anderson; Astoria Getting Ready for Panama Canal; Panama Canal Rates - The Big Issue; Captain John Truebridge - Obituary; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Some Perils of the Deck Load - Feature article includes photo of a leaning steamer Cuzco; The Advantages of the Water-Tube Boiler; Record of a Ballin Water Tube Boiler - article with photo; The International Navigation Congress; Boiler Inspection for [Panama] Canal Zone; General Shipping News; Oil Engined Barges to Revolutionize Shipping; and much more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
56 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of steam shovel; Beads to Billions - The Story of the H.B.C.; Cloak and Dagger Marriage (fiction); How Toronto's Evening Papers Slanted the Election News; The Joey Smallwood Saga; How to Brew Good Coffee; Hong Kong - The Port of Bloodstained Gold - article with great photos; The Man Who Wouldn't Tell (fiction); The Amazing Mechanical Kidney - Doctor Gordon Murray; Gullible's Travels - James Fitzpatrick creates MGM's "Travel Talks"; and more. Front cover missing piece from top corner and secured with archival tape. Back cover missing. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
1963220706Hong Kong.: Hong Kong Tourist Association. July 1st1963. Colour folding map at rear colour and black and white illustrations and advertisements 84pp. Booklet measures 22 x 10.5cm; map measures 39 x 52.5cm. Covers somewhat worn with few small closed tears on the lower cover now secured overall a very good copy. A charming companion for tourists to Hong Kong complete with a folding map of Kowloon Peninsula and Central. Within the guide provides an outline of the colony's history generally useful information for travellers advice on transportation and a rundown of attractions. Copious advertisements abound throughout with further leaflet advertisements loosely inserted. . Hong Kong Tourist Association. unknown
1978207772Japan.: Japan Air Lines. July1978. Vintage colour photographic poster 99.3 x 62.5cm creases to upper corners and some soft creases to the surface and edgewear otherwise very good condition. A dramatic view of Hong Kong at night looking down from the mid-levels on Hong Kong island across to Kowloon. . Japan Air Lines. unknown
1953188246Hong Kong: Government Public Relations Office c.1953. First edition first issue of this attractive guide to Hong Kong including a preface by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham. Later issues have "With the Compliments of the Hong Kong Government Information Services" printed at the foot of the front cover. As Grantham in office 1947-57 writes "the booklet's cover symbolises the Hong Kong story. The harbour is the basic origin of the Colony on which its prosperity was founded; the fine modern buildings in the foreground are evidence of that prosperity while the figure of the cheerful Chinese labourer typifies the hundreds of thousands who have been attracted to Hong Kong by the opportunities it affords and the promise that in reward for labour there will always be something for the rice bowl" p. 3. Small octavo. Colour maps of Hong Kong and the Central District Victoria half-tone illustrations throughout. Original illustrated card wrappers with folding flaps wire-stitched as issued. Covers bright touch of creasing and rubbing: near-fine. unknown
1974188393Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd 1953; Government Printer 1974. Two pieces of Hong Kong royal ephemera the earlier parade held just a few weeks before the Queen's coronation in London. 2 works octavo pp. 16; pp. 24. Frontispiece in 1974 programme. Original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Light creasing and marking: very good copies. unknown
13161Hong Kong, January 1978. A huge book (38*26 cm), printed hard covers, 16 pp., with many illustations for gastronomic menus, a very good copy. On the front cover, an illustration of Phoenix and Peony, 2 chinese emblems.
1954182385Hong Kong: Orient Publishing Company 1954. An instalment of this ephemeral Hong Kong tourist periodical with charming period advertisements information for sightseers and plenty of tips and recommendations for eager shoppers. Among the advertisers are San Miguel beer Tailor Cheung "the tailor for men of distinction" - p. 65 and Jimmy's Kitchen "known the world over for its fine food" p. 38. Octavo. Maps illustrations and advertisements in text. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in brown and red. Covers a touch marked and rubbed clean internally: a fine copy. unknown
1968188295Hong Kong: Servicemen's Guides 1968. The November 1968 iteration of this brochure for American naval personnel and those on leave from Vietnam with six contemporary trade cards - five for Kowloon and one for Penang - loosely inserted. The Hong Kong cards advertise Tokyo Night and New Savoy Plaza both nightclubs as well as photography studios and the Palace Hotel. Duodecimo. Illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Light wear to wrapper: near-fine. unknown
1958192118Hong Kong: Servicemen's Guides 1958. The 1958 iteration of this introductory leaflet issued by the Servicemen's Guides Association a civilian group created to provide material and spiritual aid to US sailors calling into port. Readers are warned of street guides who prey on unsuspecting tourists. "These fellows are for the most part members of gangs who lead you to places where you may be cheated." Octavo leaflet 194 x 134 mm unfolding to 388 x 535 mm with maps of Hong Kong and Kowloon and Hong Kong region west to Lantao inset map of Central. Verso with general information and shopping guide. Text printed in red and blue. Couple of contemporary pen marks general creasing: very good. unknown
19681571968 - cartonné - Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris et Harry N. Abrams, New York - 1968 - In-folio (30,5 x 30,5 cm) cartonnage toilé noir sous jaquette de l'éditeur - 179 planches de photographies en N&B + Quelques pages de préface
1534American President Lines. First Edition. Near Fine. Travel poster printed in full color recto only. Measures 23.25 inches x 34.5 inches 59cm x 87cm. Near Fine condition with slight waviness along left edge that would be readily flattened under glass. No tearing no creases but two slight abrasions verso as if tape had been hastily removed not affecting image. Very slight fading to color along the "LSON" of Wilson but only slightly perceptible and that might be a production flaw or design effect as to show variation in the polished brass look of nameplate lettering. The other copy we've seen had a similar condition. Not a reproduction. Original early-60s travel poster promoting travel to Hong Kong one of the Asia ports called at by the S.S. President Wilson a passenger cruise ship of the American President Lines. The American President Lines APL was founded with the US government's acquisition of the faltering Dollar Shipping Line. APL implemented round-the-world passenger service enhancing its fleet in 1946 with the SS President Cleveland and SS President Wilson. The ships were promoted as "your American hotel abroad."<p>Vintage photograph of the SS President Wilson sailing past a sea-going Chinese junk juxtaposes the luxury of modern passenger liner travel with the age-old traditional Chinese sailing craft. Original paper not linen-backed. Ephemera included with the poster includes a passenger manifest for a January 1958 sailing of the SS WIlson from San Francisco to Honolulu Yokohama Manila Hong Kong Kobe and return as well as two menus from the SS President Cleveland August 1959. [American President Lines] unknown
12974Poitiers, Imprimerie du "Courrier de la Vienne", 1903. 1 volume in-8, 185 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couverture imprimée conservé, très bon état.
13167Poitiers, Imprimerie du "Courrier de la Vienne", 1903. 1 volume in-8, 185 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couverture imprimée conservé, très bon état.
12387Hong Kong, sans date? 1 aquarelle originale, 33 cm sur 57 cm, représentant une vue d'Hong Kong (?), bel état, sous Marie-Louise.
Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
10201Kelly & Walsh, Hong Kong - Shanghai -Singapore, no date [1940]. 1 square book (18*23 cm), blue illustrated paper boards, 69 pp., 15 color sketches by Schiff and 25 black & white photographs by the author, 2 maps. A very nice copy.
1950192804Hong Kong: YWCA c. late 1950s. A multinational cookery book with recipes for curry pork pies Portuguese desserts and Dutch soup. The first recipe is attributed to the sadly unidentifiable wife of Eduardo Rosal who was appointed the first Filipino consul general in the colony in 1958. The YWCA branch was founded in 1920. Octavo pp. 36. Text in English and Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers lightly creased and marked: very good. unknown