Title: Five volumes on the life of Chinese in San Francisco Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Peixotto, Ernest C. Ten Drawings in Chinatown. With Certain Observations by Robert Howe Fletcher. With ten mounted prints on stiff card, loose in binding (as issued). 15x11, text in half cloth and boards portfolio, lacks ribbon ties. No. 344 of 750 copies. First Edition. A.M. Robertson, [1898]. * Bode, W[illia]m [Walter]. Lights and Shadows of Chinatown. Illustrated from illustrations on mounted tissue paper by the author. 11¼x8¾, wrappers bound with string. Chipping, short tears, and creasing to wrappers. [Press of H.S. Crocker Company], 1896. * Three by Mrs. [Esther E.] S.L. Baldwin. Must the Chinese Go? An Examination of the Chinese Question. First Edition (1886) and Third Edition (1890), both in wrappers. * The Chinese Question by One who has found a Home in China for nearly 20 Years, and Claims to Know the People. Disbound. N.p., c.1900. Also included is a farcical news publication-The Chinaman in America. No. 1. A four page publication dated 2430. Lot Amendments Condition: First volume boards foxed, endpapers foxed, and mounted illustrations foxed, mostly at margins; edge wear to each, some smudging; good to very good. Item number: 201904
Title: Five volumes on the life of Chinese in San Francisco Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Peixotto, Ernest C. Ten Drawings in Chinatown. With Certain Observations by Robert Howe Fletcher. With ten mounted prints on stiff card, loose in binding (as issued). 15x11, text in half cloth and boards portfolio, lacks ribbon ties. No. 344 of 750 copies. First Edition. A.M. Robertson, [1898]. * Bode, W[illia]m [Walter]. Lights and Shadows of Chinatown. Illustrated from illustrations on mounted tissue paper by the author. 11¼x8¾, wrappers bound with string. Chipping, short tears, and creasing to wrappers. [Press of H.S. Crocker Company], 1896. * Three by Mrs. [Esther E.] S.L. Baldwin. Must the Chinese Go? An Examination of the Chinese Question. First Edition (1886) and Third Edition (1890), both in wrappers. * The Chinese Question by One who has found a Home in China for nearly 20 Years, and Claims to Know the People. Disbound. N.p., c.1900. Also included is a farcical news publication-The Chinaman in America. No. 1. A four page publication dated 2430. Lot Amendments Condition: First volume boards foxed, endpapers foxed, and mounted illustrations foxed, mostly at margins; edge wear to each, some smudging; good to very good. Item number: 201904
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