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Pieping China Directory 1948

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Item Details

Description

Heading: (China)
Author:
Title: Peiping Address Book. Originally Compiled by the Members of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Peiping
Place Published: Peiping [Peking]
Publisher:Peiyang Press
Date Published: 1948
Description:

Unpaginated. Leaves printed on recto only, bound flip-style (i.e. joined at the top). 12.3x8.5 cm. (4¾ x3¼"), plain gray cloth. Stated "Third Published August 1948."

Designed for quick reference for the foreign journalist in Peking, the directory is filled with classified listings (doctors, churches, curio shops, etc.), and an alphabetical street directory in English and Chinese.Notably, the rear pastedown features an ad for Frank Dorn's masterful "Map and History of Peiping," the rare pictorial map, also published by the Peiyang Press, and much sought after by today's collectors. Of the title at hand, OCLC/WorldCat locates only one institutional copy, at the British Library Reference Collections, and that is of the November 1949 second edition.

Condition

Paper a little darkened, near fine.

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Pieping China Directory 1948

Name: Pieping China Directory 1948
SKU: 33606032
Price: 150 USD
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