These are the donated books I brought last weekend. All books were sold at HKD5 each for charity.
This is undoubtedly the best-buy:
Koolhaas, Rem, Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, New York : Monacelli Press, 1994.
Others treasures:
Around the World with Reader’s Digest, Philippine: Reader’s Digest (Philippines) Inc., 1976.
Ashton, Dore, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, New York : Viking Press, 1973. [1]
Catalogue of Fine Nineteenth Century Chinese Porcelain, Earlier Ceramics, Furniture, Works of Art and Reference Book, Hong Kong: Sotheby Parke Bernet (Hong Kong) Ltd, 1977. [2]
Chen, Yu, Tales from Dunhuang, trans. Li Guishan, and Artem Lozynsky, Beijing: New World Press, 1989.
Dray, William H., Philosophy of History, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1964.
Ladwig, Dieter, Musik aus dem Automaten: Jukebox, 1992.
London A-Z Street Atlas and Index, London: Geographers’ A-Z Map Company. [3]
Lytton, Vivien, AA City Pack: Singapore, Hampshire: AA Publishing, 1996.
Schulz, Charles M., Bah, Humbug! (Festive Peanuts), San Francisco: Collin Publishers, 1996.
Strunk, William, Jr., The Elements of Style, with revisions, an introd., and a chapter on writing by E. B. White, New York : Macmillan, 1979.
Ulmer, Renate, Alfons Mucha: The Master of Art Nouveau, Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1994.
Volboudt, Pierre, Kandinsky 1896- 1921, New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1963.
Yeow, Meisin, ed., Travel Bugs: Malaysia, Singapore: MPH Publishing (S) Pte Ltd and Sun Tree Publishing Ltd, 1992.
[1] Old prints of books on American art can be found here:
The Old Print Shop http://www.oldprintshop.com/
[2] The catalogue cover writes:
Sotheby Parke Bernet
(Hong Kong) Ltd
In association with
Lane Crawford Ltd.
(A member of the Wheelock Marden Group)
Fine Nineteenth Century
Chinese Porcelain,
Earlier Ceramics,
Furniture,
Works of Art and Reference Books
(a decoration motifs)
Thursday, 1st December 1977
at Three o’clock and five-fifteen p.m. precisely
Friday, 2nd December 1977
at three-thirty P.M. Precisely
Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong
[3] The 12th edition (Year unknown); British Library was under construction at the time of publish (p. 140).
The original bookcover is like this:
London A-Z http://home.earthlink.net/~auntviolet/london.html (Aunt Violet Productions: Illustration)
Englondongu http://page.freett.com/nemy/Englondongu.htm (my poor old A-Z. :-))
The book sale on news:
香江漫話/「圖書義賣日」熱爆棚Around the World with Reader’s Digest, Philippine: Reader’s Digest (Philippines) Inc., 1976.
Ashton, Dore, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, New York : Viking Press, 1973. [1]
Catalogue of Fine Nineteenth Century Chinese Porcelain, Earlier Ceramics, Furniture, Works of Art and Reference Book, Hong Kong: Sotheby Parke Bernet (Hong Kong) Ltd, 1977. [2]
Chen, Yu, Tales from Dunhuang, trans. Li Guishan, and Artem Lozynsky, Beijing: New World Press, 1989.
Dray, William H., Philosophy of History, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1964.
Ladwig, Dieter, Musik aus dem Automaten: Jukebox, 1992.
London A-Z Street Atlas and Index, London: Geographers’ A-Z Map Company. [3]
Lytton, Vivien, AA City Pack: Singapore, Hampshire: AA Publishing, 1996.
Schulz, Charles M., Bah, Humbug! (Festive Peanuts), San Francisco: Collin Publishers, 1996.
Strunk, William, Jr., The Elements of Style, with revisions, an introd., and a chapter on writing by E. B. White, New York : Macmillan, 1979.
Ulmer, Renate, Alfons Mucha: The Master of Art Nouveau, Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1994.
Volboudt, Pierre, Kandinsky 1896- 1921, New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1963.
Yeow, Meisin, ed., Travel Bugs: Malaysia, Singapore: MPH Publishing (S) Pte Ltd and Sun Tree Publishing Ltd, 1992.
[1] Old prints of books on American art can be found here:
The Old Print Shop http://www.oldprintshop.com/
[2] The catalogue cover writes:
Sotheby Parke Bernet
(Hong Kong) Ltd
In association with
Lane Crawford Ltd.
(A member of the Wheelock Marden Group)
Fine Nineteenth Century
Chinese Porcelain,
Earlier Ceramics,
Furniture,
Works of Art and Reference Books
(a decoration motifs)
Thursday, 1st December 1977
at Three o’clock and five-fifteen p.m. precisely
Friday, 2nd December 1977
at three-thirty P.M. Precisely
Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong
[3] The 12th edition (Year unknown); British Library was under construction at the time of publish (p. 140).
The original bookcover is like this:
London A-Z http://home.earthlink.net/~auntviolet/london.html (Aunt Violet Productions: Illustration)
Englondongu http://page.freett.com/nemy/Englondongu.htm (my poor old A-Z. :-))
The book sale on news:
http://www.takungpao.com/news/06/02/26/GW-530459.htm
舊書義賣售逾22.5萬本
http://www.takungpao.com/news/06/02/27/GW-530707.htm
Charity sale of donated books today and tomorrow
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ppr_release_det.php?pd=20060225&ps=03
