{"product_id":"thorbecke-schiff-shanghai-first-edition-1939-125230","title":"Shanghai.","description":"A beautifully illustrated guide to Shanghai in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scarcest of the Thorbecke-Schiff titles and a mesmerising depiction of Shanghai \"overcrowded, colourful, dirty and brilliant at the same time, opportunistic, speculating, risking, intriguing, winning and losing, bursting with ideas... to depict this city of contrasts and unlimited possibilities at this very moment of high tension has been too tempting a task to be resisted\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author, Ellen Thorbecke, was a German photo journalist married to the Dutch ambassador to Peking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 4to (230 x 185 mm); photographs by Thorbecke and colourful illustrations by Schiff throughout the text, bookplate of Brayt and Irene Meyer to front pastedown; original illustrated boards and endpapers, slightly rubbed at corners and at spine, a very good copy; 82pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"THORBECKE, Ellen; SCHIFF, Friedrich (illustrator).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57732585423223,"sku":"125230","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/125230_01.jpg?v=1794333315","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/thorbecke-schiff-shanghai-first-edition-1939-125230","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}