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Book: Shanghai Volunteer Corp w/SVC boss in multi-coloured thread and gilding. Hardcover 9”
X 12” (approx) Fair to good condition. Published 1938 by the Cosmopolitan Press, 131 Museum
Road, Shanghai, Chna; 282 pages + many more unnumbered pages of advertisement; all gilded
top, bottom and sides (worn). First page re-taped.
This rare artifact from an era which will never be seen again is a museum piece chronicling, the
presence of the foreign community in the most populated China Treaty Port, beginning from SVC’
s founding in 1853. Brimming w/abundant ‘period’ photographs this book recreates ‘A Place In
Time’ * that will never be again.
*A Place In time. The memoir of a Jewish Family’s years in China. By Georges C. Spunt;
published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York & Michael Joseph, London 1969
X 12” (approx) Fair to good condition. Published 1938 by the Cosmopolitan Press, 131 Museum
Road, Shanghai, Chna; 282 pages + many more unnumbered pages of advertisement; all gilded
top, bottom and sides (worn). First page re-taped.
This rare artifact from an era which will never be seen again is a museum piece chronicling, the
presence of the foreign community in the most populated China Treaty Port, beginning from SVC’
s founding in 1853. Brimming w/abundant ‘period’ photographs this book recreates ‘A Place In
Time’ * that will never be again.
*A Place In time. The memoir of a Jewish Family’s years in China. By Georges C. Spunt;
published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York & Michael Joseph, London 1969
$500
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