[GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG]. Hong Kong Annual Report 1953. [Hong Kong: Government Printer. 1954].
8vo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in black, colour-printed coat-of-arms on front cover; with dust-wrapper (replicating the design of the boards), colour-printed map endpapers; pp. 269, title on photographic plate, many plates after photographs, colour-printed statistical charts; edges of wrappers a little dulled and with short repaired marginal tear, text with light even toning and spotting, due to paper stock, a very good copy with some well-informed marginalia in a contemporary hand on the economy and infrastructure.
The coronation year annual, and one of the more splendidly produced ones in the series. With some spectacular aerial photographs, economic statistics, reports on sports and social events, politics, in short every aspect of life in the colony is documented in this beautiful, and increasingly rare publication.
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