{"product_id":"hong-kong-thorbecke-schiff-first-edition-1938-125229","title":"Hong Kong.","description":"A beautifully illustrated guide to Hong Kong in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author with a Rolleiflex camera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author, Ellen Thorbecke, was a German photo journalist married to the Dutch ambassador to Peking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy was owned by George Crow, nephew of Carl Crow, an American journalist, businessman, and policy maker in the region, who owned newspapers in Shanghai. Having been based there for over twenty years, Carl Crow left in 1937 after the Battle of Shanghai, which occurred as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 4to (232 x 181 mm); photographs by Thorbecke and colourful illustrations by Schiff throughout the text, bookplate of George and Olga Crow to front pastedown; original illustrated boards and endpapers, slightly rubbed at spine, near fine; 69pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"THORBECKE, Ellen; SCHIFF, Friedrich (illustrator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57732583784823,"sku":"125229","price":681.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/125229_01.jpg?v=1794333277","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/hong-kong-thorbecke-schiff-first-edition-1938-125229","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}