Stericker John (25 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. (hong kong, china, pictorial works) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Hardcover edition. 175pp, large octavo hardcover in white boards. mild toning and wear to book edges, pages open easily at a few points yet binding remains solid, toning to endpapers, text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No dj. Third impression with a printing of 1000. Cream colored boards exhibit heavy soiling. Light bumping on corners. Gold gilt lettering on front cover is bright. Inside hinge is cracked but still firmly attached. Text is clean and unmarked. 100 b&w photos with full descriptions depicting everyday life in Hong Kong. Yellowing and occasional light foxing to pages due to age. Color maps of Hong Kong and the new territories on inside front and back covers in fine condition. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gilt lettering & emblem on white covers. 4to, 52pp. 12 Tipped in color plates & 4 reproductions of old prints of Hong Kong in 1846 in a pocket on the back cover. Text written in English & Chinese. Covers soiled, endpapers tanned, contents fine.

Octavo, black buckram boards, yellow lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, illus front eps, 211pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sm numerals in ink to top corner of ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling).

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hardcover. Published Hong Kong: Privately printed, John and Veronica Stericker, 1954. Folio, 9 1/8" x 12 1/8", 52pp., illustrated with b/w photos, map of the Hong Kong city district, 12 tipped in color plates plus 4 loose color prints in rear pocket, as published. All plates and prints are present. Cream leatherette with gilt titles and emblem. Text in English and Chinese. Minor edge fray to rear flyleaf. All very good plus, clean, bright. A very nice copy.

Hb original white cloth , No Dust Jacket, 175pp illustrations + coloured maps to end papers and paste downs Cloth covers lightly soiled o/w A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 176pp. Pale blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front; maps on endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine and boards, mottled and foxing. Boards cupped. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Now serves as a nostalgic look at Britain's island colony before the incredible transformation which was largely created by Sir John Cowperthwaite who made Hong Kong the most liberal economy in the world.

In-4 (31 x 23 cm), 52 pp., percaline blanche éditeur légèrement salie. Publisher's white cloth. Bel album sur le Hong Kong d'antan et contemporain. Texte en anglais et en chinois. 39 photogravures en noir, 12 planches en couleurs, et 4 reproductions de gravures anciennes dans une pochette en fin de volume. Bon exemplaire.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 39 B & W Photos, 12 Tipped-In Colour Plates, City Plan, Map, Colour Print (illustrator). 1st Edition. Original white cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Text in English and Chinese (Mandarin?). Cover soiled. Previous owner's name. Three of four reproduction colour prints in envelope at the back are missing. Hinges firm. This isn't the first book the authors wrote about Hong Kong. They'd fallen in love with the country, despite John being interred there at the Stanley POW camp during WWII. They self-published this one, which must have been an expensive undertaking! Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardbound. Condition: Good+. First Edition. A loving look at the territory and its people, a few years after the end of WWII. Skillful, frequently dramatic black and white images of a Hong Kong now long passed are accompanied by often lengthy text - far more than captions - describing each image, its setting and notes about the people portrayed within. One can see the outlines of a beautiful late Victorian city that one was, now mostly replaced with concrete and glass, and the vibrant, traditional outlying villages, today all abandoned and in ruins. A book for anyone who loves the territory, who has any links with its past, or even wishes they did! White buckram covers a little soiled, spine, EPs and page edges lightly tanned, dedication on title page, internally a good, clean copy. 175 pp., 100 b&w photos, 2 maps. Size: 25 x 18 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Impression, some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, a couple of small dents on bottom edge of front and back covers, surface of covers a little grubby and discoloured with age, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, inscription to a previous owner on page opposite title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, comes with a loose thin card booklet of "The Plover Cove Scheme" and inside the back cover pocket four reproductions of Old Prints of Hong Kong in 1846, all in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, 1st impression, some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, surface of covers a little grubby, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. White boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Head and tail of spine bumped and a little worn. Boards slightly bowed. Covers are well discoloured and bear some staining. Binding is tidy. Free endpapers, pastedowns and title pages bear light discolouration and foxing. Previous owner's inscription on verso front free endpaper. Light scuffing of page edges, else this book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.

Front endpaper map, 211pp, cellotape stain copyright leaf and contents page, otherwise a very good copy indeed in dustjacket. John Stericker's "pre-war assignment to China on the management of large British-owned cigarette factories forms the basis of this book. He looks back with nostalgia on the China that expatriates loved so well, and from the time he stepped on to the Trans-Siberian Express to the moment he entered a Japanese internment camp in Hongkong he travelled with a suitcase and a chuckle. He admits that things were not always amusing, but even internment had its funny side as the second half of this book discloses, although tragedy, too, is not spared us.".

Hb original white cloth , gilt titles to front board , No Dust Jacket, 4to, 52pp plates maps and text A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in leather effect covers with gilt titles and illustration. With slight bump on right hand corner. Some discolouration to the front end paper, otherwise Very Good condition. First edition, 12 tipped in colour plates, 4 colour plates of Hong kong in 1946 in attached envelope to rear of book. With b&w, map of Hong Kong. With frontispiece photo of His Excellency Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hong Kong since 1947. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.

1 volume in folio, 52 pp., with thirty-nine photographs in photogravure and twelve colour Plates, with an indexed commentary of photographs, rebound in full leather, without the four large colour prints of Hong Kong in 1846, a very good copy. By John and Veronica Sterickers, long time Hong Kong residents and authors of the famous Hong Kong in Picture and Story (1953). Un témoignage photographique sur Hong Kong des années 50, empreint de nostalgie, maintenant que cette ville s'est métamorphosée en une mégalopole moderne et sans âme.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very interesting account of Hong Kong, Illustrated with 100 fine Monochrome Photographs. White Rexine Cover with Gilt Lettering to front. Endpapers Illustrated with Colour Maps. Printed on 100 lb Woodfree Paper supplied by the Kai Tai Paper Company. Photogravue by Tai Wah Press. Binding & Embossing By Tai On Press. 175 Pages, 600g, 9 3/4" Tall. No inscriptions. Spine slightly tanned and slight soiling around fore edges of cover. Please ask if you would like any more pictures or information Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Very Rare Privately printed. No Jacket. Very fascinating account of Colonial Hong Kong at his heydays, this was the Hong Kong of Suzie Wong and Love is a Many Splendoured Thing. Illustrated with 100 fine Monochrome Photographs. Beige Rexine Cover with Gilt Lettering to front. Endpapers Illustrated with Colour Maps. Photogravures by by Tai Wah Press. Binding & Embossing By Tai On Press. 175 Pages, 9 3/4" Tall. Four signatures dedication on title page. Ex Libris Giorgio Marin, a pianist for a few years in Hong Kong and Macau.

[Hong Kong], , 1953. 175 pp. 100 b./w. photographic ills on plates & a col. map and a col. plan on the endpapers. Re-bound in burgundy red cloth (without print). Published by the authors and printed by Tai Wah Press & Co., Hongkong.

8vo, 175 pp., 2 maps in color et rear, 100 photographic reproductions, original hardbinding. What one sees first, interest, around the coast, beauty, commerce and industry, people, in the new territories, commentary to photographs.

First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Large 8vo. Original cloth, minor wear, but overall a very good copy. Endpapers decorated with a map and a plan of Hong Kong. 175pp. Hong Kong, Privately Printed,  "A joint authorship often conceals a junior partner, who, having tagged along and done some of the donkey work, perhaps with a typewriter, can hardly be left out. Nothing could be more untrue of the contents of this book. This is a husband-and-wife combination in which, like two sportsmen out with guns, the proprietary rights of a certain bird have been observed but the bag at the end of the day is pooled." A beautiful photo-book with charming text. John Stericker had been interned in Stanley Camp during WW2. .