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Kelly & Walsh – Shanghai Tobacconists as well as Booksellers

Posted: November 11th, 2022 | No Comments »

Seems the notion of keeping a bookshop afloat by selling a whole range of other products – greeting cards, wrapping paper, toys, sweets, stationery, whatever – is not that new. The venerable booksellers of Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, were selling cigars alongside books. This advert from 1911.

Kelly & Walsh Building, 60 Nanking Road, Shanghai


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