First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publishers red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0224028162 Pages: 384 Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C89757

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Bibliographic Details

Title: SHANGHAI.

Publisher: Jonathan Cape,, London,

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Shanghai, pullulating with vice, luxury and crime and combining extremes of wealth and poverty, exercised an insidious and irresistible lure on travellers in the inter-war years. The seething polyglot city, inhabited by a host of European and American emigres, where heroin was available on hotel room service, and gangsterism was rife, is recreated in this book, using the reminiscences of the scattered remnants of those who populated it at the height of its notoriety.

Review:

This portrait of the city will captivate you with its vivacity and Shanghai you with its sureness of touch (Mail on Sunday)

A vivid portrait of Shanghai in its prime (J. G. Ballard)

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