Maskee: First Edition (5 results)
Published by Prospect Press,, Hartford: 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. 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).
More imagesPublished by The Prospect Press, Hartford, CT 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, U.S.A.Resource Books, LLC
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
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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Add to basketHardcover. 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 [Likely Shanghai: c.1930s] 1930
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketSigned 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.
More imagesPublished by [Likely Shanghai: c.1930s] 1930
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketSigned 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.
