FACE TO FACE WITH CHINA. by Rattenbury, Harold B - 1985

London: Harrap. sl sw,exlib,ow VG. 1985.

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. First Edition. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen and ink stamp inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

London.: Harrap.. 1945.. Colour graphs, tables and maps, black and white photographic illustrations by Cecil Beaton, 144pp, index, foxed endpapers and extremities, spine faded, covers very worn, faded with a few marks, good hardback copy. The aim of this book is to compare and contrast China and the West. It is particularly notable for the excellence of Cecil Beatons' photographs of Chinese life. .

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1945. Cloth binding, 22 cm, 144 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. .

George G Harrap & Co, 1945. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, fading to the leading and bottom edge of the upper board, possible mild damp related, a tightly bound copy, crease to the front free endpaper, the text is clean and unmarked.The pictorial dust jacket is complete but rubbed and worn and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Photographic plates by Cecil Beaton, colour illustrations and charts, 144pp.