Maskee (25 results)
Language: English
Published by Prospect Press 1938
- Hardcover
Seller: Alplaus Books, Alplaus, NY, U.S.A.Alplaus Books
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Missing. Hardcover without dust jacket. Includes publisher's brochure tucked inside. Notation handwritten on rear free endpaper. Spine darkening. No text markings noted.
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Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Condition: as new. Wie neu/Like new.
Published by The Prospect Press, Hartford 1938
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Seller: Walk A Crooked Mile Books, Williamsburg, PA, U.S.A.Walk A Crooked Mile Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. BIO 039001 Limited edition 350 copies. Solid cream cloth hard cover with a pastedown illustration on front board. Boards with mild wear and a fair amount of soiling. With mild spine slant. The frontis page is loose but present, may have never been attached. Interior pages a…re clean. 162pp An account of author's 221-day voyage from New York to China, her life in China, her return voyage to America on which she married the captain & her return to China to live. Schaeffer, Lois V. (illustrator).
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Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, , United KingdomChiron Media
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perfect. Condition: New.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, , United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Condition: Brand New. 344 pages. German language. 5.24x0.87x7.87 inches. In Stock.
Published by Prospect Press,, Hartford: 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition (350 copies). Smells a bit musty, gift inscription (dated 1967) on front paste-down, foxing to endpapers, else very good in tan cloth. No dust jacket. Illustrated by Lois V. Schaeffer (illustrator).
Published by Prospect Press, Hartford, CT 1938
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Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.Nightingale Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Of Limited Ed. Of 350 Copies. Good+ in soiled canvas cloth pictorial boards with black lettering; foxing on endpapers. An account of author's 221-day voyage from New York to China, her life in China, her return voyage to America on which she married the captain & her return to China to live. I…llustrated with B&W drawings by Lois V. Schaeffer. Memoir, Maritime, Women's Studies, China.
More imagesPublished by The Prospect Press, Hartford, CT 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.Resource Books, LLC
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hartford, CT: The Prospect Press, 1938. First edition, 1938, limited to350 copies, printed at the Sign of the Stone Book by The Prospect Press. Journals of Ruth Bradford who traveled to and lived in China during the Victorian period. Full page plate of the author, additional small…illustrations throughout. Tan sailcloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, 162 pages plus colophon. Very good condition with modest darkeneing to the edges of the covers, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Prospect Press, Hartford 1938
- Hardcover
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Limited. 350 copies, rough weave tan cloth, pictorial poastedown. Spine a wee tanned, else fine, apparently unused copy. Women's sea travel, to China and back.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts befindet sich China im Klammergriff seiner Nachbarn Russland und Japan und einiger europäischer Staaten. Als der junge Deutsche Wilhelm Wendt 1899 in Hongkong an Land geht, weiß er nicht, was ihn erwartet und wie sehr dieses Land sein Leben und später das seiner Ki…nder für immer prägen wird. Allmählich gelingt es ihm, in dieser fremden Welt seinen Platz zu finden. Schließlich muss er sich den kulturellen Zwängen stellen und eine Entscheidung treffen, die weitreichende Folgen hat. Erst seine Enkelin kommt dem Familiengeheimnis mehr als hundert Jahre später auf die Spur, als sie nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter in alten Unterlagen die Geschichte ihrer Familie in China erkundet. Durch einen Zufall fallen ihr alte Briefe ihrer Mutter in die Hände, die schließlich das Rätsel um das Foto einer schönen Chinesin lösen, das sie als Kind unter den Familienfotos gefunden hatte und das seitdem eine seltsame Faszination auf sie ausübte.Hilke Veth, selbst in Shanghai geboren, lässt in ihrem Roman die Geschichte der »Chinadeutschen« aus der Perspektive einer Familie lebendig werden. Sie schildert das Treiben von Kaufleuten, Missionaren und kleinen Angestellten in den Handelsmetropolen entlang der chinesischen Ostküste vor dem Hintergrund von politischen Machtkämpfen, Kriegen und den gesellschaftlichen Umbrüchen in China und Deutschland in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem Ende der Kolonialzeit und der Repatriierung nach Deutschland beginnt ein neues Kapitel für die Familie, fernab von China. Ein Abschied für immer Eine spannende Lektüre, nicht nur für Chinainteressierte.
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Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germanypreigu
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Abschied von Shanghai? | Maskee! | Hilke Veth | Taschenbuch | menschen unterwegs | Paperback | Deutsch | 2024 | Knaden, Monika | EAN 9783982599007 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Knaden, Monika, Monika Knaden, Pirmoni Verlag, Hagerweg 17, 47798 Krefeld, pirmoni[at]t-online[dot]de | Anbieter: pre…igu.
Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, , IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 186. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1938 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 186.
More imagesPublished by The Yellow Hall?, Shanghai. 1940
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., , United KingdomEmJay Books
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Concertina. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 22pp (title and 21 illustrations) concertina style in fabric covered boards. No imprint-details as Copac. Hand painted illustrations by rather obscure artist though respected by a number of cartoonist/caricaturists, an Austrian-Jew, arriving in Shanghai in 1930 when he was… 22 years old, and lived there until 1947, he illustrated a number of publications, usually with a humorous edge. No indication of number of copies, this one is A498. Regrettably spoiled by damp to every page, although in most cases this does not affect the images but certainly only a 'starter' copy, though professional paper restoration might be possible. 1.4kg. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by No publisher noted 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Picture This Gallery (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), Sunningdale, United KingdomPicture This Gallery (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, no publisher or date noted, but from the 1930's. Cartoon style book in concertina binding with green silk brocade covered boards in a bamboo design; 19cm x 26.5cm. 22 panels, comprising title page, second page blank plus 20 pages of hand coloured cartoons. Verso of all… boards blank. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) was an Austrian Jewish cartoonist and long-time resident of Shanghai where he was a keen observer of the people and life of the city in the war-torn late 1930 s. Printed in an unspecified limited edition, this book numbered I201. Hand coloured and signed by the artist to the titlepage. In Very Good condition, page edges gently tanned, silk covers faded to edges.
More imagesPublished by N.P. [Shanghai?]: N.P. [The Yellow Hall?], n.d. [ca. 1940?]. 1940
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Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
Contact seller5-star sellerIllustrated by Title and 20 hand colored pages (30 separate illustrations, 13 captioned). Limited signed edition. "Of this book only a limited and numbered edition has been printed. Each book is hand-colored and signed by the Artist. This is book number 517." . Gold silk bamboo brocade, accordion fold (or concertina or zigzag fo…ld) housed in a custom box by KTB of Old Working Books & Bindery of acid free Hewit cloth and calf lined with gold/multi color oriental floral paper and Japanese tissue. Hand-dyed looped silk ribbon by Ramune Jauniskis (Boston) and Chinese coin closure on both boards which tie into a bow with no loose ends. 4to (27x19.5cm). pp. 22 double leaves . Very Good/No jacket, as issued/As New. Edge toning to some cartoons, colors still brilliant, several foxed spots to pages, light rubbing to fabric folds. An "oh mosaic" of 'Shanghailander' life observed by Jewish-Austrian cartoonist who lived and worked in the refuge of Shanghai 1930-47. World Catalog states 3 editions were published in 1940. This is equivalent to state A with the "Limited." statement and number on last page with last name signature on title. I have seen a copy 550, but exact numbers are unknown. A collection of his works was later published in Austria in 1983 as China gemalt - Chinesische Zeitgeschichte in Bildern Friedrich Schiff by Gerd Kaminski. [We restore and rebind books and sets and make custom storage boxes].
Language: German
Published by Shanghai, Yellow Hall, 1939
- Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariat an der Uni Muenchen, München, GermanyAntiquariat an der Uni Muenchen
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4°, Leinen. "Of this book only a limited and numbered edition has been printed. Each book is hand-colored and signed by the Artist. This is book number 19.". Illustrated by 21 hand colored pages. Limited signed edition. Red silk bamboo brocade, accordian fold. 4to (27x19.5cm). pp. [21] colored paste-on cartoons to concertina bou…nd boards. Very good copy. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 5550.
More imagesPublished by Self-published (at the Yellow Hall), China [Shanghai] 1939
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Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA)
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. JAZZ, VICE, and VANISHED SHANGHAI A vibrant and satirical visual record of pre-WWII Shanghai nightlife and social friction, hand-colored and signed by the Austrian caricaturist Friedrich Schiff. This accordion-style sketchbook captures the coll…ision of East and West in the final years of the International Settlement, documenting the interactions of sailors, 'taxi-dancers', and local residents with a 'no-holds-barred' wit. Schiff's work serves as a primary visual ethnography of a vanished colonial world, produced in the city's legendary 'Yellow Hall' just before the Japanese occupation reshaped the region forever. KEY FEATURES +++ Visuals: 21 plates of caricatural illustrations, each individually hand-colored by the artist. Includes the iconic 'Paramount' dance hall and Filipino jazz band scenes. +++ Binding: Original decorated silk-brocade covers featuring a stamped bamboo motif. Bound as a 'leporello' (fan-folded) allowing for a continuous panoramic display. +++ Content: Satirical sketches of Shanghai's 'joints', nightclubs, and street life, capturing the 'Barflies' and 'sing-song girls' of the 1930s. +++ Imprint: Shanghai; Friedrich Schiff. 1939. Numbered 570 in an unspecified limited edition. +++ Specs: Quarto; 10.5 x 7.5 inches. 21 leaves. +++ Design: Features Schiff's unique signature 'sketch-hand' style, noted for its economy of line and expressive cross-cultural observation. +++ Scholarship: Documents the 'International' caste system and the seedier cross-cultural undercurrents of pre-war China. +++ Signed by the author/artist on the title page as issued. CONDITION -- Very Good+. +++ The Book: The internal leaves are tight and square with light, even age-toning. There is minor offset from the hand-colored drawings onto the facing pages, which is common and expected for this format. +++ The Silk: The original silk-brocade covers are handsome and well-preserved, showing only minor handling wear and light rubbing at the extremities. A remarkably crisp example of a fragile, overseas production. Historical Significance: Friedrich Schiff was the preeminent cartoonist of Interwar Shanghai, spending 18 years documenting the city's poignant and often ridiculous cultural collisions. Maskee-a Pidgin-English term meaning 'never mind' or 'it doesn't matter'-perfectly encapsulates the reckless hedonism of a city living on borrowed time. Schiff's 'sketch-hand' captured everyone from 'sing-song' girls to colonial police with a wit that continues to influence modern Asian graphic artists. This volume is a primary visual source for the Art Deco period in the East, predating the abrupt end of Old Shanghai brought on by the Japanese occupation and later Revolution. SUBJECTS: Shanghai, China, Caricatures and Cartoons, Social Conditions, 1930s Nightlife, Jazz Age, International Settlement, Signed Limited Edition, Art Deco, Leporello, Asian History. Signed.
More imagesPublished by [Likely Shanghai: c.1930s] 1930
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Signed limited edition, number A430 of an unknown edition signed by the cartoonist on the title page. Schiff's pen skewers the modern decadence of Shanghai's concessions and the cast of expatriates and "modern girls" who frequent them. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) fled Nazi persecution in his native Austria and settled in Shangh…ai in the 1930s. "He started his career by providing illustrations to Kelly and Walsh, the largest English-language book publishers in China at the time. He then provided cartoons for the Tientsin Times, but it was in hedonistic Shanghai that he found his oeuvre and started to satirise the foreign community. [Schiff captured] a new Shanghai of modernist architecture, avant-garde styles, high fashion and jazz" (French, p. 162). Paul French, Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao, 2009; Arthur Hacker, China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom, 2012. Quarto, concertina-style. Original blue brocade covers, 20 hand-coloured sheets with captions and cartoons. Covers and contents bright: a fine copy.
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Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.A Cappella Books, Inc.
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Oversized Clothbound. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Limited. Leporello binding w/ original decorated red silk covers in a bamboo motif; Hand-colored illustrations; Signed by Schiff at title page; Hand-numbered 'B 360' of unspecified limited edition; Date/printing not stated; Sound binding; Signific…ant edge-wear to boards w/ fraying corners; Significant damp-staining at rear board, pages/art unaffected; Pages moderately worn w/ mild creasing/scuffing/spotting present throughout; A Fair copy overall, significantly worn. Signed By Author.
More imagesPublished by [Likely Shanghai: c.1930s] 1930
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Signed limited edition, number 217 of an unknown edition signed by the cartoonist on the title page. Schiff's pen skewers the modern decadence of Shanghai's concessions and the cast of expatriates and "modern girls" who frequent them. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) fled Nazi persecution in his native Austria and settled in Shangha…i in the 1930s. "He started his career by providing illustrations to Kelly and Walsh, the largest English-language book publishers in China at the time. He then provided cartoons for the Tientsin Times, but it was in hedonistic Shanghai that he found his oeuvre and started to satirise the foreign community. [Schiff captured] a new Shanghai of modernist architecture, avant-garde styles, high fashion and jazz" (French, p. 162). Paul French, Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao, 2009; Arthur Hacker, China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom, 2012. Quarto, concertina-style. Original brownish orange brocade covers, 20 hand-coloured sheets with captions and cartoons. Covers lightly worn and bowed, panels foxed at margin, bump to top edge, illustrations almost entirely unaffected: a very good copy.
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Seller: Librairie L'Abac / Gimmic SRL, Bruxelles, BelgiumLibrairie L'Abac / Gimmic SRL
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S.n.e., sans lieu, sans date [circa 1940]. 27 x 19,5 cm, une page de titre, 20 pages et une page de collophon, leporello, les dessins sont colorés à la main par l'artiste et contrecollés sur carton fort. Reliure de soie bleue. Reliure légèrement usée et salie sinon bon exemplaire. Édition à tirage limité non précisé, ici le numé…ro 101, et signé par l'artiste sur la page de titre. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) était un caricaturiste juif autrichien qui a longtemps résidé à Shanghai, où il était un observateur attentif des habitants et de la vie de la ville à la fin des années 1930, déchirés par la guerre. Peu de détails sont connus de la vie de Friedrich Schiff, l'un des grands dessinateurs de Shanghai entre les guerres mondiales. Il est né en 1908 en Autriche et s'est exilé à Shanghai en 1929. Il est retourné en Autriche en 1947 et y est mort en 1968. En 1929, Schiff arrive à Shanghai pour échapper à la persécution nazie. Au cours de son séjour de 18 ans dans la ville il a énormément dessiné. Une rétrospective de ses uvres a été publiée en Autriche en 1985 sous le nom de China gemalt - Chinesische zeitgeschichte dans Bildern Friedrich Schiff. Pour plus de détails, voir Kaminski, Gerd, Der Blick durch die Drachenhaut: Friedrich Schiff: Maler dreier Kontinente, Wien, Eigenverlag, 2001. Livres.
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
More imagesSeller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star seller[Shanghai 1938?, Schiff]. Red silk accordion folded album, 21 hand colored charming sketches, 19.5 x 27 cm., mild stain on the first two pages and at the center on all other pages. FIRST & ONLY LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR *** *** *** . . A GREAT CARAIATURE OF SHANGHAI LIEF IN THE LATE 1930'S . . . DEPICTING IN…TERACTIONS BETWEEN . . . FOREIGNERS, CHINESE DANCE HALL GIRLS & PROSTITUTES . . *** WHO WAS THE ARTIST & AUTHOR FRIEDRICH H. SCHIFF [1908-1968]: Schiff was an Austrian-Jewish artist. He was a keen observer of the Chinese spirit, showing the more fascinating visual insights to Shanghai life., living there 1930-1947. . Schiff arrived from Austria in Shanghai in 1930 when he was 22 years old, and lived there until 1947. His charming cartoons captured the foreign community's interest and many were also published in local newspapers and journals such as the China Journal & the North China Daily News. . He also illustrated several books on China, a suite of Shanghai postcards, and was attributed to decorating the walls of the Cercle Sportif Français and other clubs. . After receiving an invitation to visit Shanghai from a cousin Schiff lived there for 17 years, becoming known as one of the city's great cartoonists between the two world wars. . Schiff's importance lies, first of all in the fact he depicted indelible characters that manifest what it meant to dwell in Shanghai, then an international City. . "He manipulates his works as a form of attack. Socially marginalized groups, such as prostitutes, 'taxi-girls' and beggars, are all subjects of his scrutiny." . *** Gerd Kaminski, author of a chronicle and geographical study of the artist, described the opus of Schiff as extensive, ascertaining that cartooning was the genre that prodded him into telling stories from the point of view of a spectator on the street. See below. . * "Schiff's opus goes beyond cartoons and illustrations for newspapers. Artistically, he was equally excellent in landscape and portrait oil paintings, gouache and watercolor works," Kaminski said. . * "Schiff, from the very beginning of his residency in China, had already developed sharp eyes -not only in face-reading Chinese physiognomy, but also the social realities in which Chinese and foreigners were being subjected to." . *** THE SETTING: The setting is the "Roaring 1930's Shanghai" scene. Sketches depict the Free-Wheeling, "Anything Goes" wild attitudes of "why not" war torn Shanghai. . * THE SKETCHES: TWENTY-ONE HAND-COLORED DRAWINGS: . The first page shows a beautiful, slinky Chinese girl in Cheongsam: "Miss Shanghai: "Me no worry-me no care ! Me go marry millionaire ! If he die me no cry ! Me go marry other guy !!" . Followed by 19 other full-page hand-colored drawings. Some with and with out captions, the meanings obvious ! . These fascinating color-drawings shows how Occidentals inter-relate with the Chinese & western [mostly Russian] girls, Shanghai Party time English style, "Having a Ripping Time," American sailors caress and dance with their willowy Chinese girls wearing sexy Cheongsam split up to their hips. . Also stunningly beautiful, blond & blue-eyed Russian prostitutes with their Chinese sisters competing for the Yankee dollar. "Taxi-girls, "sing-song girls," bar girls, lonely and hungry house wives. . *** THE MEANING OF "MASKEE:" The tile "MASKEE" is a very old China coast Pidgin English corruption of the Portuguese word meaning "Never Mind." This and other Pidgin English was commonly used by both Chinese and foreigners along the treaty port cities on China's east coast since the 1820's. . *** THE HAND-COLORED ART WORK: Schiff drew the illustrations, then had the book printed in black-outline, after which he hand-colored each page and signed the title page, adding a hand-written number on the last page. . *** BINDING: The work was bound in various colors of silk [red, maroon, green, blue], with brocade designs, such as bamboo, or the dragon. There may have been othe.
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Seller: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, , IndiaGyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1938. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 186, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 186 186.
