New York. Stokes. 1937. Black and white photographic plates, xii + 266pp, index, stamp of a prior owner front free endpaper and edges, occasional foxing, very good in slightly chipped dustjacket. Articles on his pre-WWII travels in China, Japan and Hawaii, originally published in the New York Sun, by raconteur..... More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1986. Reprint. Black and white illustrations, 250pp, index, paperback, leaf edges browned, a good copy. Peter Quennell spent a year in Japan but assures the reader that he "cannot pretend to 'know the country'." He asks the reader to regard this book "as a kind..... More
London. Simpkin, Marshall and Kent Hamilton. 1914. 1st Edition. Numerous black and white illustrations. ix + 329pp. Edges and first and last leaves little foxed, occasional spotting in text. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt, spine and front board sunned and faded, top edge gilt, edges a little dusty. head..... More
1st edition. Black & white engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved illustrations throughout the text. Original black cloth covered boards stamped and illustrated in gilt with a 'Southern Jinrikisha' pulled by a driver with 2 female passengers (from the illustration found on pp264) lettered in red, spine lettered in gilt and..... More
London. Arnold. 1903. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 315pp + 16 adverts. Foxing and browned, pictorial cloth damp stained, backstrip little torn at head and tail laid down. A reading copy only. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161771). More
