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The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, With Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, The Yangtze Kiang, Including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints. by MENNIE, DONALD. (FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY) - 1926.

by MENNIE, DONALD. (FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY)

The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, With Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, The Yangtze Kiang, Including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints. by MENNIE, DONALD. (FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY) - 1926.

The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, With Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, The Yangtze Kiang, Including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints.

by MENNIE, DONALD. (FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY)

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Shanghai.: Watson. Kelly & Walsh.. Number 283 of a limited edition of 1000 copies.. 1926.. 50 full page tipped-in plates by Donald Mennie of which 38 are photogravures and 12 are hand coloured silver gelatin plates. Each plate has an accompanying page of text by Lieutenant Commander Carey and is illustrated with a sketch by Lieutenant Colonel H.G. Gandy underneath the text. Plate XXVI has a neat ink note ('Looking from bridge Plate XXII').

A large format 30 x 21.3cm silver gelatin photograph which appears likely to be an original Mennie print is loosely inserted. It shows a view taken from a vantage point high up on one of the cliffs with the Yangtze running through the gorges and a steamer on the water. A further five snapshots (9.7 x 14.5cm) showing scenes taken from the river of Windbox Gorge and Icheng Gorge accompany the larger image. Each of the snapshots is neatly captioned on the reverse in pencil.

Bookplate and inscription front endpapers, some occasional spotting, corners and head and tail of spine little rubbed, lower edge very lightly bumped causing some barely visible creasing along the lower edges throughout. Stain in blank outer margin three leaves. Excellent copy in stunning colour pictorial woven silk boards, bevel edges, presented in original card box torn at one corner. The box has given excellent protection over the years and the volume and the photographs are in excellent condition. A stunning copy. This beautiful book is made up of photographs taken "during two trips on the Upper Yangtze and both show the river at low level season. Although the first journey by steamer from Ichang to Chungking proved not altogether unproductive of results, it was evident that more time, study and luck in weather conditions, would be necessary in any attempt to photograph the Gorges. The second journey occupied nearly four weeks by native boat (Kua Tzu) through the district between Ichang and Wan Hsien..."

Provenance: From collection of Mr Eric Price and then by descent. Eric Price, an Englishman, was an old China hand who worked initially for Butterfield & Swire, in Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin and Harbin in 1925-28. After the war he worked in Hong Kong and was part of the team who rebuilt Butterfield and Swire after the destruction caused during the war. He later worked in Singapore. Eric Price is mentioned several times in "Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways" - Gavin Young 2012 and also in "The Blue Funnel Legend: A History of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, 1865–1973" - Malcolm Falkus. Springer 2016. .
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  • Edition Number 283 of a limited edition of 1000 copies.
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  • Place of Publication Shanghai.
  • Date Published 1926.
  • Keywords Antiquarian, China, East Asia, Photography, Yangtze, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_ListOn_eBay
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by Mennie, Donald; Putnam Wealf; S. Couling

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Shanghai [1921], Watson. Rebound in full black cloth, gold titles, 40p. text + 61p. Mennie b.w. photo gravures,notes by [S. Couling], new end papers, contents very clean & solid, a large size folio 31 x 39 cm. SECOND EDITION . *** **** *** . . A GRAND AND DELUXE EDITION . . . WITH 66 SUPERB PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES . * A grand scale work, DELUXE EDITION, consisting of 66 photographic studies, each tipped-in on a separate page, with elaborate descriptions. . A wonderful set of old photographs of the Old capitol of Peking. Shows the architecture, walls, gates, palaces, shrines, people, monuments & temples. . Each photo is carefully executed and done with the greatest composition & artistic talent. Marvelous record of the city, people, sights and stone architecture of bridges, tall gates &c. . All photos are tipped in, superbly composed images. . *** The first appearance of Donald Mennie's photographs in any book form was in Elizabeth Cooper's: My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, New… Read More
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by Donald Mennie; B L Putnam Weale; Samuel Couling

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Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Co, 1920-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Folio, 39 x 29 cm. Bound in original blue silk, with gilt lettering. Some wear to cover cloth, with loss to silk at corner edges. Solid binding. 4 preliminary leaves, 40 pages, 66 mounted photographs of old Beijing (Peking). Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates. Scattered foxing. <br> "The aesthetic photographer Donald Mennie (1899-1941) was active in Shanghai and Peking from 1920 until the late 30's. His soft-toned pictorialist images of the capital and its people show the deep admiration which Mennie felt for the Chinese and their culture. This work includes 66 folio photographs of early 20th century Peking and the surrounding area and includes photos of famous views such as the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travellers and monks" (Western Travellers in China).
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The pageant of Peking: comprising . . . Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs . . .

by [CHINA -- PHOTOGRAPHS]. MENNIE, Donald

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Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Printed & Bound by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., [1921]. Folio. [6], 40 pp. Title in red & black, rubricated decorated initial, with 66 tipped-in sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravures, each w/ printed border, explanatory text on facing page. Publisher’s decorated blue silk over beveled boards, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (rebacked in blue silk, gilt lettering on spine in equivalent font, wear to fore-edges of boards w/ minor loss at fore-edges on front & back covers, minor bumping & wear to corners), still VG- copy, w/ interior in excellent condition, from the library of Dr. Leonard William Buck (1891-1953), scion of the famed Buck family in Vacaville, CA, whose holdings included Bucktown, and the ranch where the California Medical Facility is located. Dr. Buck traveled to Asia on behalf of the California Grower’s and Shipper’s protective League at the behest of his brother Frank in 1921. Second edition of this large and beautiful photographic souvenir… Read More
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The Pageant of Peking, Comprising Sixty-six Vandyke Photogravures of Peking from Photographs By Donald Mennie. Text By Putnam Weale

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Shanghai: A. S. Watson , 1922. Text fine and clean with all mounted photographs present. Spine mostly missing; top and bottom edges of covers worn; ownership notation on front flyleaf.. Third Edition. Original Cloth. Fair.
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China North and South - A Series of Vandyk Photogravures Illustrating the Picturesque Aspect of Chinese Life and Surroundings

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Shanghai (The Shaghai Pharmacy Ltd.): A. S. Watson & Co., 1920. Cord bound album with stiff card covers with black lettering and photo pasted on the front.Undated, though 1920s. Title page and 30 leaves each with a tipped on Vandyk photogravure with printed captions. The pages are all bound within the covers by a cord passing through two holes and tied at the front board.Some spliting along the sides of the spine back strip, and an inch missing from the lower spine back strip. Contents and photgravures all very good.. Second & Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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by Mennie, Donald

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Shanghai. Watson. Kelly & Walsh. 1926. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. No. 350 of 1000 of the first edition. A Fine copy complete with 50 photographic plates (12 hand coloured) in the original decorative silk binding showing a view of the Yangtse. Extremly minor soiling to lower cover, occasional odd small spot, otherwise a Fine clean and fresh copy.
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The Grandeur of the Gorges.

The Grandeur of the Gorges.

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Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Company (The Shanghai Pharmacy, Ltd) [and] Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1932.. Second edition. Large 4to. (31.5 x 25.5 cm). Publisher's original gilt-sprayed half calf over black silk boards with gilt lettering, title-page printed in green and black. 50 full page tipped-in plates of which 38 are photogravures and 12 are hand coloured silver gelatin plates, numerous vignettes throughout. Some light rubbing to extremities, generally an excellent copy of the second edition of this work which was first published in 1926. Donald Mennie (1899-1944) was trained as a chemist in Scotland. He came to China in 1899 and initially worked for Mactavish & Lehman in Beijing but later moved to Shanghai where he was in the employ of the chemist wine, spirit, & cigar merchants A. S. Watson & Co. Mennie was a gifted amateur photographer of the "pictorialist" school, and many of his images capture the feeling of the end-of-an-era. The present spectacular photographic record of the Upper Yangtze was… Read More
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The pageant of Peking

by MENNIE, Donald (photograpoher) & WEALE, Putnam (text)

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Shanghai (China): A.S.Watson, 1921. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Plates measure 7 ½ x 11 inches. Rubricated initials. Original blue silk cloth with Chinese cyphers, gilt lettering on front cover; silk repair to spine with slight stain in crease and on top edge of cover, still an exceptionally fine copy, complete with the original silk bookmark. From the library of Charles R. Crane, with his business card noting: "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America." Crane (1858-1939) was originally appointed minister to China in 1909, but before leaving was recalled to Washington where he was forced to resign by Secretary of State Philander C. Knox for his published objections to treaties between Japan and China. He later served as minister to China between 1920 and 1921. Crane was a virulent anti-Semite and an admirer of Hitler. He later founded the Institute of Current World Affairs. First edition, second issue, with the title page showing the 1920 first edition… Read More
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The Grandeur of the Gorges.
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The Grandeur of the Gorges.: Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including Twelve Hand-Coloured Prints.

by MENNIE, Donald

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Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Company (The Shanghai Pharmacy, Ltd) [and] Kelly & Walsh, Limited,, 1926. With the scarce personalized limitation page First edition, first printing, number 142 of 1000 copies, with the limitation page printed ad personam for Mrs. Lansing Hoyt, spouse of the chairman of the Yangtze Rapid Steamship Company. The company operated the Yichang to Chongqing river route travelled by the photographer when preparing this iconic work. We have traced just two similar personalized copies, neither with the same pleasing Yangtze association. Josephine C. Cudahy (b.1884), an heir to the Cudahy meatpacking fortune, married Lansing Weed Hoyt (1884-1954) in 1917. After the war, Lansing Hoyt became the American trade commissioner in Shanghai. In 1924, he was approached to be chairman of the Yangtze Rapid Steamship Company, formed from the merger of three smaller shipping firms: a former company of the same name, the Upper Yangtze Trading Company, and the Ichang Steamship Company. During the… Read More
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Routledge, 1990. 8vo size trade paperback; 390 pages including index From back: "This is a unique study, continuing the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological focus on our experiences of well-being and pathology as embodied beings contribute significantly to a historically relevant critique of idealogy. It also provides an essential touchstone in experience for a fruitful individual and collective response to the dangers of nihilism." Edgewear, moderate wear to covers with sunned spine; marginalia, underlining and very light highlighting on least 58 pages prior to page 107; two previously folded page corners, some stray ink marks on outside pages. Thanks for shopping with us.… Read More
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Reframing Japanese Cinema
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Reframing Japanese Cinema

by Nolletti, Jr., Arthur & David Desser (editors)

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9780253207234
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0253207231
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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992. 365 pages. Wear to corners and creasing to lower corner of front cover. Bumped corners towards back of book. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Nobody's Fool

by Russo, Richard

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Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Reader's Edition. Fine copy.
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Marilyn- Barnes & Noble First Edition (Taschen) Steve Crist and Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes (editors)
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Marilyn- Barnes & Noble First Edition (Taschen) Steve Crist and Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes (editors): The Taschen licensed to Barnes & Noble Edition

by Dienes, Andre de

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9781014351005
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1014351006
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Marilyn (First Edition)Dienes, Andre de (photographer); Steve Crist and Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes (editors) Barnes & Noble / Taschen, Beverly Hills, CA, 2007. First Edition, quarto hardcover in dust jacket. B/W/Color throughout, 240pp. Dienes' imagery of Marilyn Monroe from her early Norma Jeane years to blonde and outstanding actress and comedian of film.
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Now Becoming Then

Now Becoming Then

by Michals, Duane; Kozloff, Max (essay)

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9780944092125
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0944092128
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Altadena: Twin Palms, 1990 First Printing of 5000 copies, Fine in Fine, no remainder or other markings, bright tight Gift Quality copy (dj in mylar); 4to; fully illus. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for priority or overseas delivery of this heavy oversize book (extra charge SUBSTANTIAL for overseas shipment). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.
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Marilyn
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Marilyn: Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962 Actress and Comedian

by Steinem, Gloria and Barris, George

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9780805000603
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0805000607
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Marilyn- Text by Gloria Steinem and photos by George Barris and others. Stated First Edition (1986 copyright) 1988. Henry Holt & Co. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 0805000607 001838 - hardcover - - - Steinem Gloria (text) & Barris George (photos). MARILYN NY: Henry Holt and Co. (1986). 1st Edition. 182p. Hardbound with DJ. Very minor wear only. Text is tight and clean.
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The Journey of John W. Mosley
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The Journey of John W. Mosley

by Blockson, Charles L

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9780962716171
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0962716170
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Philadelphia: Quantum Leap Publisher, [1992]. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to. 192 pp. Bound in full black cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Mosley's black and white photographs accompanied by captions. Includes index of captions. Fine, bright, clean copy in Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear.
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David Bailey:: Flowers, Skulls, Contacts
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David Bailey:: Flowers, Skulls, Contacts

by David Bailey

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9783869301280
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3869301287
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Goettingen: Steidl, 2010. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good the 2010 publication of Flowers, Skulls, Contacts by David Bailey Gottingen & London: Steidl; Thames & Hudson, 2010. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's illustrated faux brown leather boards, lettered black at the spine. This book combines Bailey's recent colour photographs of still-life flowers and skulls, with black and white contacts of his iconic celebrity portraiture and fashion work from the 1960s. Published by Steidl in Göttingen, Germany, 2010 Dimensions 290 x 330 mm, 240 pages.
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Mauresques
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Mauresques: Femme Orientales dans la Photographie Coloniale 1860-1910

by Taraud, Christelle

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9782226140746
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2226140743
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[Paris]: Albin Michel, [2003]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. Folio. 144 pp. Bound in black boards in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs from the Collections Roger-Viollet. Text in French. Includes glossary and bibliography. Very Good+, bumping to bottom edge, hard bump to upper corner of back cover, light fading and rubbing to extremities of binding, internally sharp and clean, in Good dust jacket with wear to extremities as well as a 2" tear and a 1" tear to bottom edge of front cover.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital Field Guide
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital Field Guide

by Lowrie, Charlotte K

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9781118169117
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1118169115
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Indianapolis: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. 286 pages illustrated with color photographs. Bound into the book is a gray and color checker card. From back: "This go-to resource shows you how to get the most out of the camera... Explore all the options for getting the best exposures Get in-depth guidance on using the new autofocus system Get creative with HDR and Multiple exposure modes Learn how to use multiple Speedlites for wireless flash photography Record hi-def movies and play back your video" Creased front hinge, half inch tear to bottom of back cover; edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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