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17/03/2025

Martin Booth’s memorable account of his childhood in 1950’s Hong Kong.

This is the true first edition, first impression with jacket. Very Good condition. £40 plus shipping.

a surprisingly tough book to find - presumably printed in small numbers initially.

16/03/2025

This beaut is off to a new home and lucky buyer today.

Browse our website and find your next vintage poster. Link is in our bio above.

15/03/2025

In anticipation of St Patrick’s Day…….

10/03/2025

David Attenborough’s best known book. Not a rare book by any means, but hard to find as a SIGNED first printing in a beautiful bright unfaded dust jacket.

New in stock.

26/02/2025

Alistair MacLean writing as Ian Stuart. Two tough to find first edition books, especially in this beautiful bright condition. DM for more details, etc.

18/02/2025

Cambridge Bookfair this weekend, and we’re all packed and ready to go. Here are some shots of the books we’ll bring along. Almost all is fresh stock - not online and not shown previously.

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07/12/2024

Half way through the Hong Kong Bookfair and we’ve been busy, busy, busy! If you’ve not visited yet, we are open today (Saturday) until 7pm and then tomorrow from Noon to 4pm

04/12/2024

A beautiful evening welcome to Hong Kong for everyone heading into town for Firsts Hong Kong Bookfair.

I took this shot last night from Kellett Island.

03/12/2024

Firsts Hong Kong Bookfair opens in Two Days.

At the HK Maritime Museum from 4pm Friday 6 December.
Picture This Gallery will be at Booth 17

12/11/2024

This charming pictorial map of Hong Kong was published in 1935. Design by S.D. Panaiotaky, who also designed several 1930’s Hong Kong travel posters. Sadly for a man (or perhaps a woman) who produced such brilliant work, their name has faded away completely. We don’t even know what the initials stand for.

But we are bringing a very scarce and highly desireable original of this litho printed map to Hong Kong next month for the Firsts Hong Kong rare book fair. It’s buried inside one of the books we will be displaying. For now we won’t reveal any more! So please enjoy the map.

11/11/2024

Rather rare vintage China Customs label for use on the Canton Kowloon Railway. It’s quite small, 50mm x 63mm. These probably came on a roll, and were torn off for use at the perforations. Circa 1930’s, maybe earlier. In excellent condition.

07/11/2024

Ichang on the Yangtse River, 1914. Today known as Yichang in central Hubei province, this is close to the Three Gorges.

Just a lovely early photograph….

28/10/2024

It’s Chelsea Bookfair at the end of this week, Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd Nov at Chelsea Town Hall.

We will exhibit an excellent large photograph album, compiled circa 1910 by an expatriate Danish businessman living and working in Shanghai. Over 160 photographs in and around Shanghai, street scenes, social and family shots, sailing, shooting, rowing, dinner parties, etc. and including 24 professional images, 14cm x 10cm, of Peking, Shanghai and studio photographs.

This is an excellent album, with a strong narrative element. Stop by our booth to take a look

25/10/2024

ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPH

Looking West along Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

Photographer: Lai Fong (Afong)

Date: 1870’s

Photographed looking west towards Bonham Strand from outside Nam Cheong’s Artist Studio at No. 70 Queen’s Road Central. Today this is the site of Lane Crawford House. This is a very early photograph of Hong Kong with most of the buildings along the road only two storeys high. By the late 19th century all were three or more storeys. The taller building in the rear centre of the photograph is at the junction of Queen’s Road and Bonham Strand. There are several sedan chairs lined up along the roadside waiting for passengers. Most of the signage for the shops and businesses are in Chinese, though several tailors and Yuen Sing Printers are also promoting themselves in English.

Lai Fong (aka Lai Afong or Afong) (c1839-1890) was born in Guangdong and moved to Hong Kong in the 1850’s. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential Chinese photographer of the 19th century. Lai worked alongside many Hong Kong based western photographers including D.K. Griffith and José Silveira, and his photography was praised by John Thomson as “extremely well-executed, [and] remarkable for their artistic choice of position”. By the early 1870’s Lai’s studio was located at 54 Queen’s Road, and this photograph was taken from almost outside his studio.

Reference: an almost identical image taken from the same spot is found in Terry Bennett – History of Photography in China, Volume 3, Figure 6.7. It differs only in the positioning of the sedan chair bearers.

A superb photograph of an early Hong Kong street scene, and in excellent condition.

Size: 275mm x 212mm. Backed onto original album card. An exceptional image in size, tonal range, contrast and sharpness.

We will be bringing this photograph to Firsts Hong Kong. See you there

25/09/2024

Asking in hope rather than expectation!

Does anyone have a copy of this book on their shelves. It seems rather elusive. I don’t want to buy the book, just looking for some material which should be in here.

24/09/2024

Launching our latest catalogue - books about Wines & Cocktails. A few highlights are included in this post and you can find everything in the catalogue via our website home page. Or DM for a link.

Cheers everyone. 🥂

02/09/2024

Only three months to wait now for the revival of the fabulous Hong Kong Rare Bookfair.

As we get closer, we’ll tease some of our highlights, but for now mark your diaries and make sure to be in HK between 6th and 8th December

17/07/2024

First teaser from our soon to release catalogue of books and ephemera about Singapore and Malaya.

Send us a message to make sure you are on the distribution list. You won’t want to miss out - many books we’ve never had in stock before.

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