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I Want to Take Picture - Signed -
Bill Burke
1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.
Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong -
William Somerset Maugham
1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
A superior first edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’.
‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
A superior first edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’. ‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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Eighteen Hundred Miles On a Burmese Tat. Through Burmah, Siam, and the Eastern Shan States by an Ordinary British Subaltern -
Lieutenant G. J. Younghusband
1888 - W. H. Allen & Co., London - First Edition
‘The following pages give an account of a journey made during six months' leave in the beginning of 1887. They do not profess to any literary merit whatever, but are merely a faithful record of new countries and new nations, as seen with the eyes of an ORDINARY BRITISH SUBALTERN.‘
The journey was made on horseback through Burma and Thailand, from Moulmein (Mawlamyine), 300 kilometres south of Rangoon (Yangon) north to Kengtung on the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, and then all the way south to Bangkok via Chiang Mai. All outlined on the fold out ‘Skeleton Map of Siam’ to the rear.
Younghusband is an entertaining and observant writer, and his amateur sketches illustrate the book throughout, these are spread over thirteen full page plates (one of which folds out, and one is a duplicate).
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1888 - W. H. Allen & Co., London - First Edition
‘The following pages give an account of a journey made during six months' leave in the beginning of 1887. They do not profess to any literary merit whatever, but are merely a faithful record of new countries and new nations, as seen with the eyes of an ORDINARY BRITISH SUBALTERN.‘The journey was made on horseback through Burma and Thailand, from Moulmein (Mawlamyine), 300 kilometres south of Rangoon (Yangon) north to Kengtung on the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, and then all the way south to Bangkok via Chiang Mai. All outlined on the fold out ‘Skeleton Map of Siam’ to the rear.
Younghusband is an entertaining and observant writer, and his amateur sketches illustrate the book throughout, these are spread over thirteen full page plates (one of which folds out, and one is a duplicate).
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Price HK$ 6,000