The pageant of Peking

by Donald Mennie, Putnam Weale, photograpoher, text

$1,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Shanghai China : A.S.Watson, 1920- 1921 . Folio. leaves iv , 40 pages plus 66 tipped in Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Plates measure 7 ½ x 11 inches. Rubricated initials. Original blue silk cloth with Chinese cyphers, gilt lettering on front cover; silk repair to spine with slight stain in crease and on top edge of cover, still an exceptionally fine copy, complete with

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