Hong Kong photographed and depicted ... with sketches by Schiff

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, n.d.. Small 4to, pp. [2]-69; illustrated throughout with photographs taken by Thorbecke with her Rollieflex camera, and attractive color sketches by Schiff; original pictorial boards after a design by Schiff; light rubbing at extremities, else near fine, sound and clean. A fine collaboration between the Dutch author-photographer and Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) who was born in Austria and came to China in 1930 where he worked as caricaturist for several newspapers and illustrated books. Ellen Thorbecke, after a messy divorce became the wife of the Dutch ambassador to China, and wrote a few books on Shanghai and other Chinese cities, all splendid book productions. (Inventory #: 68515)