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Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: A work focussed on the birding opportunities in the Yangtze Valley, including sketch maps, shooting districts, sporting dogs and their ailments and remedies; houseboats, Chinese methods of shooting and trapping game, list of yachts at the Shanghai Yachting Club, including and revised tipped-in list at page 108. Book plate of Marjorie & Martin Mitau, with illustration of the Bouquinistes on the banks of the Seine. 4to, 284pp, original green cloth, title in black on front board only, cloth rubbed on front board spine creating many lighter marks, 1" split at top of right hinge. Interior very clean, binding tight.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is the preferred second edition, much enlarged from the first. Rebound in 3/4 dark green buckram and a brown title label and bright gilt letters on the spine. Inside, very clean and tight with no stains or foxing or browning. Intended for the expatriate community of Shanghai, a cultural and hunting guide to the Yangtze Valley. It includes chapters from "valued contributors on houseboats, Chinese methods of trapping and hunting, topography, houseboats and yachting. After page 108 a revised list of yachts at the Shanghai Club is tipped in. An handsome copy. A table of distances at the end has Chinese as well as English place names.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Henling Thomas Wade. With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley. Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai, 1910.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second edition of this fascinating and detailed guide to the Yangtze Valley, illustrated throughout. The second edition of this work.Henling Thomas Wade's comprehensive guide to shooting in the lower reaches of the Yangtze valley, published primarily for the Shanghai expatriate community.Illustrated with five maps, and three plates.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Rebound in a cloth binding, with part of the original front board restored. Externally, smart. Panel of original cloth is a little rubbed. A couple of light marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Map, errata slip, 4to, original patterned cloth (top of spine rubbed) small ex-lib stamps. Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury Limited, 1910. Second Edition. Very good. Detailed guide to shooting in the lower reaches of the Yangtze, intended chiefly for the Shanghai expatriate community.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10950.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oversized hardcover presented with map in its original paper wallet. Boards are fully bound in dark green cloth by Kelly and Walsh, with lettering to front only. Second edition, 284pp. Former copy of Evelyn Gedge, with her bookplates to front pastdown, to reverse side of map and to map envelope. Boards are shelfworn with rubbing to edges and corners, spine is sunned, speckled and lightly chipped at ends. Endpapers and pastedowns are tanned at edges and there are a few small tears to paper in the gutter of front pastedown. Very faint foxing to a few internal pages, otherwise the contents are clean and unmarked throughout and the illustrations are bright and clear, binding is sound. Watermark to map envelope and small tear to opening. Map is unnumbered and is in excellent condition. More photos available upon request. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom