Chinese Diary & Album.
by BEATON, CECIL
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
Hong Kong.: Oxford University Press.. Reprint.. 1991.. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 169pp, prior owner's neat chop on title page, dustjacket with sunned spine, very good hardback copy. 25.5 x 19.5cm. Cecil Beaton was sent by the British Ministry of Information with his camera to the Far East in order to take photographs of the Empire and its Allies at War. This book is a reprint of "Far East" and "Chinese Album" which were published by Batsford in 1945-6. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 213387
- Title
- Chinese Diary & Album.
- Author
- BEATON, CECIL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press.
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong.
- Date Published
- 1991.
- Keywords
- 20th Century, China, East Asia, Photography, Society, Tradition, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Asia Bookroom
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
About Asia Bookroom
Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Sunned
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