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Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # GRP91617218
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Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from 'Life 'magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, and Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country's financial, cultural, and commercial capital. His effort to show China's misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce's fervent anti-communism, and for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life''s 'archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution. Seen through the lens of hindsight, Birns's photographs give us a sense not only of what China was like more than fifty years ago, but also of why the warfare, weariness, and desperation of the time proved such fertile soil for communist revolution. Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people--pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners--tell a story of national resilience and dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, and fear. Birns's stark black and white photographs capture the dramatic end of an era, but they also look forward, letting us glimpse how Shanghai's past prefigures the city's commercial and cultural revival in the 1990s. A collection of Birns' exquisite, excruciating, and previously unpublished photographs of the Chinese civil war, this book chronicles Shanghai life during its final descent into chaos in the years 1947-1949, when Mao's Communist forces took control of the country. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Seller Inventory # 319206
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Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. 4to. Seller Inventory # 039710
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Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First edition. Size: 9.25x13.5 inches, 144pp., illus. As new, clean, tight and bright condition, very minor sunning to otherwise near new crisp dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 220829
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Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Photography by Jack Birns. Foreward by Orville Schell. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Strikingly illustrated with roughly 100 previously unpublished black and white photographs. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. 130 pages. Seller Inventory # 9030604
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Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Seller Inventory # 014554
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Hardcover. Folio, pp. xii, 130; black/white photos throughout; gray cloth boards in photo jacket; all good and sound. Seller Inventory # 84
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Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (2003.) Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio with 130 pages. Signed by author/photographer on the half title page, " To Our Darling Friend Mildred, Whom we love for her wit and determination. So with warm regards and love from Jack and Harriet Birns February 25, 2004." The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. Profusely illustrated. "Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war." White-Red spine/ Yellow text. #033812 Size: Folio. Signed. Photography / History / China. Seller Inventory # 033812
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