Lot n° 134
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1934. - Lot 134
1934.
ELLEN CATLEEN.
Peking studies. Shanghai, Sketches by F.H. SCHIFF, kelly & Walsh, 1934. In-folio, publisher's cloth decorated on the first cover with a small photograph.
Dedicated first edition, dated April 25, 1941, well illustrated with photographs of Ellen Catleen, wife of the Sinophile ambassador, Thornbecke, and numerous drawings by cartoonist F.H. Schiff (1908-1968). The book offers a glimpse of daily life in Beijing through the eyes of Messrs. Pim and Wu. Schiff is the author of "Maskee. A Shanghai Sketchbook" (published in Shanghai in the 1940s).
Size: 38x27.5 cm.
(Some tears and wear to cover, fresh inside).
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