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21 CHINA; RAILWAYS. Chinese Government Railways: Travellers’ Notes and Through Booking Arrangements. Tianjin: N.C. Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd, 1918 Rare first edition of this extensively illustrated guide for business and leisure railway travellers in Republican China, with notes on principal destinations and many valuable tables of fares, baggage rates, and insurance charges. WorldCat records just five copies with none in UK institutions. In 1918, the Chinese railway system consisted of six main lines linking Peking, Hankow, Shanghai, Tianjin, and other important cities. The network was also connected to the South Manchuria Railway and the Japanese Imperial Government Railways. This is an especially detailed guide which caters to a variety of tastes and budgets. The unusual level of numerical information offers a detailed window into the network’s revenue streams and projected operating costs. Octavo. Original brown illustrated paper wrappers, front cover lettered in green and white. Half-tone frontispiece of a water gate in Songjiang after a photograph by Donald Mennie, 23 similar plates, 7 after photographs by Clarence Le Munyon, folding map of rail network and connecting lines in Japan and Manchuria, tables and illustrations in text, pp. 13 advertisements at rear (pp. 2 printed in red). Covers bright, spine worn in places, small losses to rear lower corner and corresponding part of final leaf, map and plates bright. A very good copy indeed of this fragile publication.
20 CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977 inscribed to an eminent irish collector First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Philip Murray, best wishes, Bruce Chatwin, Nov ‘88”. Murray was a noted Irish bibliophile and author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011); the sale of his library was Ireland’s largest ever single sale of first editions. Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for On the Black Hill and in 1988 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Utz . In Patagonia is Chatwin’s first book. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue map endpapers. With dust jacket. Black and white map frontispiece, 4 black and white double-sided photographic plates. Spine a little cocked, one corner bumped, a few trivial spots of foxing. A near-fine copy in like jacket, spine panel just sunned, not price-clipped, a touch of foxing to verso and flaps, free from nicks and rubbing, very fresh and sharp. £2,500 [155643]
¶ Institutional copies: Harvard, Oregon, Columbia, Michigan, and Freie. Not in British Library. £1,250 [157930] 22 CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude. 75. Essay and Interview by Paul Goldberger. Cologne: Taschen, 2010 signed by christo First edition, number 638 of 1,100 copies signed by Christo, from a total edition of 1,510. Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, this comprehensive overview of all Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects up to 2010 was designed by Christo himself. Conceived originally to mark Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s 75th birthdays, it features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, drawings and plans, a detailed history, and in-depth interviews, including Jeanne- Claude’s final public conversation about her work. She died in 2009, a year before publication. The duo are perhaps best remembered for wrapping architecture and natural elements in fabric, such as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the gates in New York’s Central Park. Folio. Original hessian cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red. Housed in the publisher’s hessian clamshell box, spine and front cover lettered in red. Photographs throughout by Wolfgang Volz, many full-page. Book fine, some rubbing to text of clamshell box. £3,750 [158063]
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