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1967158680Hong Kong: Ta Kung Pao 1967. Hongkong has been turned into a hell for its Chinese inhabitants First edition first printing scarce in this condition of this charged and sometimes graphic bilingual photobook published by the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao in the wake of the Hong Kong riots and the burning of the British mission in Beijing in August 1967. Despite all the bluster privately Mao and other communist leaders were extremely keen to see the territory an important trading partner remain in British hands. Following the explosive beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China left-wing propagandists in Hong Kong infiltrated labour disputes and protests over conditions to fan the flames of anti-British sentiment. The present work presents dozens of photographs to show how patriotic residents have "armed themselves with the great thought of Mao Tse-tung" in a struggle against "anti-national oppression" foreword. A final section boasts of the global support for these actions including from London's very own Finsbury Communist Association. The present work was issued in two variants of the wrappers with no discernible priority. The front cover of the other design is lettered "The Upheaval in Hong Kong" in white against the same red-drab colour scheme. Short quarto. Photographic half-tones throughout several pages with quotations from Mao printed in red sepia vignette on first leaf. Text in Chinese and English. Original card wrappers titles to spine in red and black front cover lettered in white and black against red and drab horizontal bands. Wrappers well-preserved moderate creasing and marking loss at head of spine only slightly affecting Chinese title text block square and holding firm clean internally with light bumping to lower corner of text block. A very good copy indeed. Martin Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present second edition 2016 p. 348. unknown
1924157518Hong Kong: Honkon nipposha 1924. Only a single copy found institutionally First edition first printing of this exceptionally scarce Japanese-language guide to Hong Kong with plates showing views of the harbour city centre and Peak Tram. WorldCat records just a single copy at the Bukkyo University Library. This guide was published by a Japanese newspaper founded in the territory in 1909. It includes adverts for banks beers shipping lines and trading companies as well as a full list of important businesses and amenities enumerated in Japanese and English. Sections deal with climate population diplomatic buildings business opportunities and the usual useful information needed by travellers. A final page lists the travelling time and distance between Hong Kong and major Chinese and international ports including Macao Shanghai Singapore and London. A second expanded edition was published in 1928; today this is equally rare. Duodecimo. With 4 blue photographic half-tone plates pp. 15 adverts many printed in colour. Original red card wrappers title on front cover in black. Wrappers well-preserved with minor chip to front cover and spine sunned with small split at foot a little toning and skinning internally imprint page consolidated at gutter plates and adverts bright. A very good copy of this fragile publication. unknown
1954030011Hong Kong 1954 K. Weiss Hardcover 1st Edition Signed by Author
95510c.1849. . Water colour on paper Hong Kong visible area 74.8 X 137 cm. mounted. Overall size: 90 cm x 150 cm.<br /> A rare large-scale view of Hong Kong Island painted in the first ten years of colonial rule. The charming scene shows both Chinese Junks and European tripple-masted sailing ships at anchor in Victoria harbour with the rippling hills of Hong Kong Island above the burgeoning town of Victoria.<br /><br />Many watercolours painted for western export emphasised the trading nature of Hong Kong hence the emphasis on merchant vessels and company buildings on the waterline including those of Dent & Co. and Lindsay. The absence of St John's Cathedral amongst the urban waterline dates this painting before 1849 only eight years after land grants were first issued to British investors following the cession of Hong Kong to Britain at the Treaty of Nanking. The image is also reminiscent of the 1843 seal of Hong Kong which shows merchant ships on a quay with the mountains of Hong Kong in the background and strengthens the idea that this painting represents the quintessential depiction of Hong Kong.<br /> [c.1849]. unknown
