Sidelights on Peking Life
Robert W. Swallow
Published by China Booksellers Limited, Peking, 1927
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First edition. Near fine, Clean, bright, unmarked, and firmly bound copy with partial remnants of dust jacket laid in. Seller Inventory # 002666
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Title: Sidelights on Peking Life
Publisher: China Booksellers Limited, Peking
Publication Date: 1927
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Hardy Jowett
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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Sidelights on Peking Life
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The French Bookstore, Peking, 1930
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Seller: David R. Smith - Bookseller, Ashby, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, 135 pgs. plus map of Peking and 1 page of Errata's. This is the reissue of the 1st edition in 1927. Illustrated, bound in red cloth, black lettering on front cover and spine. Some spot staining on front cover, and a few creases in cloth at lower edge of spine. A good copy. Seller Inventory # 001713
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Sidelights on Peking Life.
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Seller: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Peking, 1927. XVIII,135 pp. B./w. ills. Hardcover.The rare first edition in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 275993
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SIDELIGHTS ON PEKING LIFE
Published by
China Booksellers Limited, 1927
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Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in red cloth, front board illustrated with black stamped title and Chinese temple building, title on spine. 4to., 135pp, (1) map of Peking, (1) Errata. A few very mild scuffs and spots and a small ripple at top of front board. Inscribed by the author on the front fly to a Mr. F. B. Sykes, Peking, 1928. A scarce photo illustrated volume of social customs of the Chinese in Peking. Coming at a time when The Republic of China was at odds with communist influence. Interior very fresh and appears to be unread, no damp or foxing. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 1675
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SIDELIGHTS ON PEKING LIFE.
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Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
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Peking 1927, China Booksellers Limited. Red cloth, very good intro. by Hardy Jowett, 50 b.w. photos plates shows 100 nice photos, 135p, map, large format 19 x 26 cm., slight stain to front/ rear covers, contents clean.FIRST & ONLY EDITION RARE This work is devoted to the people and sights of Peking, including eloquent commentaries on the photographs. Nicely illustrated study, the author was born in China, and was fluent in Chinese. A very fair attitude without the "foreign slant" on the Chinese, commonly done by those that neither understand nor speak Chinese. Covering "Peking a City of [many] Pleasures," with several charming period photographs of Chinese prostitutes, and "types" of Chinese women. * Discovery of the Hutung: its inhabitants and street vendors, flowery streets & willow lanes, feasts, restaurants, famous actors & female impersonators: Mei Lan Fang & his students, Chen Yen Ch'iu and others. Of Chinese theatres, actresses, street & willow lanes, professions, politics, tales of the spirit world [some 13 entries], ghosts, money lenders, pawn shops, money lenders, feasts, restaurants, gates, street names, places of interest. Of red ceremonials, marriages, births and birthdays and others. * A great primary resource, with lots of obscure notes and things you need to know about the glory of Old Peking ! *. Seller Inventory # 90014202
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Sidelights on Peking Life
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Peking: China Booksellers Ltd, 1927
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Royal octavo, pp xviii, 139. With full page map of the city and errata notes at rear. Bound in red cloth covered hard boards, black lettering to spine and black decoration and lettering to the upper board. Illustrated with fifty full page plates from photographs, many of the photographs by Chinese photographers. Swallow was a China-born and resident academic and university professor with was obviously enthralled by the city of Peking. His tour of the "bye ways and alleys" takes in the Hutongs, the city's residents and street vendors, the 'Flower Streets and Willow Lanes' of the prostitutes, theatres and actors (with their portraits), festivals and ceremonies, pawn shops and money lenders, streets and street names and the city's political life. An excellent copy, bright and in Near Fine condition with just a little rubbing to the cloth at the top of the spine. Seller Inventory # B6584
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