Schiff frederic illustrator (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto, pp 81. Illustrated paper covered hard boards. No dust jacket. Book about Shanghai, mainly targeted at tourists and visitors, with text and photographs by Ellen Thorbecke and embellished with drawings by Friedrich Schiff. Bookplate of George and Olga Crow to the front pastedown. George Crow was the nephew of Shanghai based businessman and writer Carl Crow. Book is in Very Good condition, binding solid, clean and unmarked internally, browning to the front and rear endpapers and a small surface scuff to the front free endpaper, spine ends and edges a bit rubbed. Overall an attractive and solid copy of an increasingly difficult book to find. …