[Rarebooks] FS:Pageant of Peking [Photography]

[Deborah Thornton Pendleton]

For Your Consideration.

THE PAGEANT OF PEKING. COMPRISING SIXTY-SIX VANDYCK PHOTOGRAVURES OF 
PEKING AND ENVIRONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY DONALD MENNIE. WITH AN 
INTRODUCTION BY PUTNAM WEALE...Shanghai: A.S.Watson & Co., 1922. Folio, 
in original blue silk decorative covers, with gilt lettering and 
ornament on front cover. Third edition. Illustrated with 66 tipped in 
photogravures by the Australian photographer Donald Mennie (1899-1941). 
The 40-page text introduction is by Putnam Weale, the pseudonym of 
English author, journalist, agent, and adventurer Bertram Lenox Simpson. 
Simpson, who lead a provocative existence in China, was assassinated in 
1930.  Meenie's photographs capture an artist's view of what Simpson 
calls "A brilliant thousand-year-old tale," of Peking and its environs. 
Light foxing to the endpapers, with light rubbing to tips, otherwise a 
near fine copy of this wonderful production.            $725


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