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A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.

THORBECKE, Ellen; SCHIFF, Friedrich (illustrator).

Hong Kong. Photographed and Depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with Sketches by Schiff.

Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, [1938].

£500.00
£500.00

Hong Kong.

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A beautifully illustrated guide to Hong Kong in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author with a Rolleiflex camera.

The author, Ellen Thorbecke, was a German photo journalist married to the Dutch ambassador to Peking.

This 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.

First 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.

Stock code 125229

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A guide to Hong Kong, 1938 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.

Hong Kong.

£500.00
£500.00

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