Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being The Notes Of An Eye Witness Which Set Forth In Some Detail From

by B L Putnam Weale

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1907. Octavo, pp. 447, original crimson cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. A personal account of the Boxer Rebellion in China, during which xenophobic Chinese murdered thousands of foreigners. Putnam Weale went on to become a prolific author of both nonfiction and fiction with Asian themes and settings. Front free endpaper missing, spine panel a bit sunned, still generally a

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