Description
Man Shing Press, [No date: circa 1930s-1950s]. Wraps, 22 pp.; 19 cm; English text with Chinese characters; illustrated with line drawings of tiles and 15 numbered figures.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Blue-green paper wraps printed in black with Greek-key border on front; rear wrap blank. Staple-bound, staples rusted with rust marks on wraps. Small chip at top edge of front wrap; moderate surface and edge wear, soiling, toning and spotting to wraps. Interior pages toned throughout, otherwise unmarked. English-language mahjong instruction booklet of the kind packed with sets sold in Hong Kong. Explains the tiles (called "cards") suit by suit, with line cuts of every tile and Chinese characters given with Cantonese romanizations; then the building of the wall, dice throws for seating and the banker, forming sets, forms of winning, doubles such as "Catching the moon from the bottom of the sea" and "Four of a kind with open flowers," and scoring with dotted ivory sticks. Final leaf has the advertisement of Man Shing Press, printer, bookbinder and stationer, 29 Wellington Street, in English and Chinese. Undated; the five-digit telephone number on the front wrap postdates Hong Kong's 1930 changeover to five-digit automatic telephone numbers.