Stericker John (23 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1954 John and Veronica Stericker. Includes envelope attached to back cover with four reproductions of old prints of Hong Kong in 1846. Prev owner name/inscription inside front cover. Pages are clean and bright, some tanning inside covers. Back cover has some damage at lower corner. Cover corners are bumped, cover has light wear overall.…

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: 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: Good. No Jacket. 4th Impression. 175 pp numerous bw photos throughout, colour maps to endpapers, ivory cloth covers gilt title to front. Cover tanned and spotted, tape repaired tear and some foxing to endpapers, name near rear, otherwise sound.

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. 3rd Edition. Third impression of book originally published in 1953. Small quarto, pp 175. White rexine covered hard boards (no jacket as issued) with gilt lettering to the front board. End paper maps. Photographic book of Hong Kong with 100 gravure images and detailed captions. John Stericker was a long-time resident in China and Hong Kong who was interned in Stanley Fort during the war. This is the first of his Hong Kong photography books. In Good condition, marred by tape residue and staining to the edges of the paste-downs, otherwise the book is clean and unmarked internally and the boards are unusually bright and clean.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1954. Signed by both authors on title page. Endpapers lightly foxed. Bound in the publishers gilt decorated cream cloth slightly yellowed and marked, else very good copy. Tipped in colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 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. 39 B & W Photos, 12 Tipped-In Colour Plates, City Plan, Map, Colour Print (illustrator). Book.…

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.

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. 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. 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.…

Front endpaper map, 211pp, sellotape 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.".…

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.…

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.…

[Hong Kong], 1953. 175 pp. 100 b./w. photographic ills on plates. Col. map & col. plan on the endpapers. Orig. hardcover (boards, gilted title). - Lower edge of boards sl. discol.

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.

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.…