Hong Kong - SIGNED Franklin Library edition
MORRIS, Jan
Published by Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1988
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First edition thus, first Franklin Library edition. Octavo, pp 339. Bound in red leather, extensively tooled in gilt; all edges gilt. With a special introduction by the author written for this edition. SIGNED by Morris. Book is in Fine unread condition. Seller Inventory # B6779
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Title: Hong Kong - SIGNED Franklin Library edition
Publisher: Pennsylvania: Franklin Library
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Hong Kong : Signed First Edition The Franklin Library
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The Franklin Library, 1988
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First Edition
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Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cover with gold lettering and design. Gilt around all page edges. Ribbon bookmark. Very clean. No markings. Limited first edition signed by author for members of Signed First Edition Society. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 029668
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HONG KONG: THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY EDITION - Scarce Fine Copy of The Franklin Mint Library Edition: Signed by Jan Morris
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Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988
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Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 360 pages. Published in 1988. Book-length account on subject. One of Jan Morris' finest achievements. Limited Edition, as stated. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and American trade editions. Published in a small and limited print run as hardcover original only whose limitation is not stated. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by The Franklin Library: Regular-sized volume format. Bright "Chinese"-red leather boards with gilt titles and design on the cover and spine, and raised bands, as issued. Text by Jan Morris. Gilt page edges. Gilt satin ribbon marker sewn-in. Marbled endpapers. Vintage photographs interleaved with the text. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its most collectible format, Jan Morris' "Hong Kong". Verily, the continuation and completion of "Pax Brittanica", the most glorious literary sequence on the twilight of the once-glorious British Empire. Herself the greatest travel writer of our time, Jan Morris offers the most insightful study of the enigma called Hong Kong. She intensely disliked the label "travel writer" because as she often pointed out, she was not interested in travel for its own sake although she travelled great distances to the remotest corners of the globe. Still, she rarely wrote about the so-called "travel experience", tourism in other words, as other (lesser) writers like Alain de Botton have done ("The Art of Travel") more recently. What she wrote about - and wrote about better than any other writer in the English language - and vividly evoked was the sense of time and place: The Past and the Present, local cultures, unique personalities and people, and all other idiosyncrasies that her observant and perceptive eyes, ears, and nose gleaned. She turned time into place. Then, she turned place into a novelist's richly imagined and complex character. As a stylist of the English language, she had few peers. If she had one abiding motto as a writer, it is that the proverbial Truth is always in the details. No one who reads this book will ever think of Hong Kong in the same way again: "Jan Morris' journey through Hong Kong's colorful history is contemporary proof of Emily Dickinson's famous words: 'There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away' " (Publisher's blurb). Jan Morris died on November 20, 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is irreplaceable. An absolute "must-have" title for Jan Morris collectors. This is a copy of the Franklin Mint Library Edition. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Jan Morris. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online inexplicably have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with magnificent vintage plates. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAN MORRIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 22930
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