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A guide to Shanghai, 1939 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Shanghai, 1939 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Shanghai, 1939 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Shanghai, 1939 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.
A guide to Shanghai, 1939 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).

Shanghai. Photographed and Depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with Sketches by Schiff.

Shanghai, North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd., [1939].

£500.00
£500.00

Shanghai.

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A beautifully illustrated guide to Shanghai in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.

The 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".

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

First 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.

Stock code 125230

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A guide to Shanghai, 1939 first edition, written by Ellen Thorbecke, beautifully illustrated by Friedrich Schiff in Art Deco design, including photographs taken by the author.

Shanghai.

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