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PEKING STUDIES
by Catleen, Ellen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good minus/fair
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/fair. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 87pp. Text and numerous photographic illustrations by Catleen from originals taken with her Rolleiflex camera. Charming coloured map and humorous black and white sketches by Schiff throughout the text. Printed in black and red. Silk boards with tipped-on photographic illustration. Light bump to spine bottom, light foxing to silk on spine and edges and light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge. Gift inscription, dated 1935 on ffep; ownership bookplate on paste-down. Dust jacket is foxed, with chips and tears, losses to top and bottom of spine area. Still an attractive and charming book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Horizon Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10392
- Title
- PEKING STUDIES
- Author
- Catleen, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good minus
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Kelly & Walsh, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Shanghai
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
Lost Horizon Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. We do not accept overseas orders for some countries and for some large and expensive items.
About the Seller
Lost Horizon Bookstore
Biblio member since 2010
Santa Barbara, California
About Lost Horizon Bookstore
We are a small, open shop in Santa Barbara and have been in the same location for over 30 years. We have a select inventory of used and rare books. We also carry original posters and prints, vintage photographs and ephemera. Open Tues.- Sat. 11-6, closed Sunday & Monday.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Folio
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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