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19258vo., First Edition, with over 70 plates and 4 folding maps (2 large and coloured); handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, original pictorial wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a contemporary picture postcard and embroidered Christmas card (1945) loosely inserted. One of the best - and scarcest - pre-WWII guides to Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated and with very numerous trade advertisements throughout, it includes detailed coloured maps of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, and plans of the Central District of Victoria and the Canton-Kowloon railway. A splendid copy of a work rarely found complete. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19828vo. First Edition handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered ands ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt laid endpapers uncut a most att
1993Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a copy of the publisher's single-leaf prospectus loosely inserted. Lovely copy of a standard reference.
19518vo., Second Impression; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail, gilt dulled else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Personal account of action with Wingate's Second Column. Published in the same year as the first edition. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Graham & Cole, G24; Enser p.107.
19688vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; grey tweed cloth, gilt back, grey top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.404.
19768vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, oriental name on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
19848vo., First Edition, page-edges browning slightly as often, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.52; Graham & Cole G28.
19878vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [STANLEY] GORDON COCKS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cocks served as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 75 (New Zealand) Squadron. 'On our specialised operations in Burma we had no call for w.op/gunners like you, but nonetheless you might like to read…' (author's inscription). PRESENTATION COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
19954to., First Edition, with numerous fine photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19738vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and 4 full-page maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference. Graham & Cole E1 (recording the book club edition of the same year); Enser p.87.
19768vo., Second Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.214.
19938vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
20018vo., First Edition, with 72 plates of photographs, facsimiles and maps on 68; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A detailed and well-documented account which deserves better than its current recognition. The author spent over thirty years in both military and commercial postings.
19538vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps (a number folding), free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 106.
19638vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The pitiful and horrifying story of the last Emperor of China.
20008vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. All early printings are already scarce.
19918vo., First Edition, with numerous trade advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes YCAC Rugby Reunion in London and Twickenham, with separate slip naming personnel in cover photograph.
1910Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (2 in red and black), and full-page illustration and double-page map in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cordier 3487.
19908vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, and a fill-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's account of his capture at the fall of Hong Hong, his escape to mainland China and his eventual pick-up by 204 Military Mission, an Anglo-Australian guerrilla unit based on Chungking and training Chinese Nationalists.
19962 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, text in Japanese, Main Volume with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs (a number folding) in the text, CD Portfolio with coloured illustrated booklet and CD in oyster case; Main Volume in brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, CD Portfolio in white boards, both volumes housed in publisher's card slip-case, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
19508vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plate; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears on rear panel. Waley's classic text was first published in 1921. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19648vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Personal account of the Pacific war from 1943 to 1945 by a British naval officer attached to the US Pacific Fleet. Enser, p.459; Law 0608.
19508vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 20 plates on 16; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, blue top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard history of the Chinese Customs Service and a biography of Sir Robert Hart who directed its activities for nearly half a century. SCARCE.
19418vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, plates, maps in the text and large folding map at end, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original purple cloth, gilt back, yellow top, boards lightly faded at lower edge else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges. Crisp copy of Collis's chronological account of Peking, the Forbidden City, and Chinese dynastic history from the end of the Ming period. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19398vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 82. Bridges & Hair, p.280.
