Charming Peking: A Diary of Seven Days Spent in the Old Chinese Capital.

Hope Danby: with a Foreword by L.C. Arlington:

Published by North China Standard,, Peking:, 1930

About this Item

Quarto. x, 44pp, with 12 tipped-in coloured illustrations by Gladys Mary Havers. With the author's 1952 gift inscription on blank page facing half title 'For Ruth / in remembrance of the good old days spent in China / Hope Danby/ Christmas 1952 / The Little Manor / Hawkhurst Kent'. Professional tissue repair to top edges of this and the following two leaves. Contents otherwise clean and fresh. Laid in are duplicates of two of the illustrations: one in a mount of thin card, which bears the artist's signature in pencil; the other tipped onto tinted paper, with an inked title and a nick to the edge. All being hand-coloured, they are not identical to those in the book. With the original pastedowns of deep golden silk. Boards recently re-covered with a delicately textured off-white paper, with the original slightly creased patterned silk from the lower board laid on to cover the upper board. A very attractive evocation of the period.

Seller Inventory # 19302090

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charming Peking: A Diary of Seven Days Spent in the Old Chinese Capital.
• Publisher: North China Standard,, Peking:
• Publication Date: 1930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel & Exploration: Far East;