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[SIGNED] Hongkong - The Island Between (1952)
Christopher Rand
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition
5.5" x 7.75"
1952
VG+/VG+
B16631
In original dust jacket. Light rubbing to corners and small bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Overall a VG+/VG+, lovely copy.
Inscribed by author to f.f.e.p. Christopher Rand was a correspondent for New York Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Here, he writes about Hong Kong based on his travels there from 1949, at a time when the colony was recovering from World War II and the Communist regime had just taken over across the border.
This is a gifted reporter's impression of the tiny, crowded, melodramatic British colony on China's southern coast...It is a city crammed with refugees, secret agents, propagandists, speculators, and great legitimate business enterprises...
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