China coast tales no. 9. The acting third assistant

by Lise Boehm, Pseud. of Elise Williamina Giles

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1905. 8vo, pp. 8 , 100, 2 ; original printed brown wrappers; spine perished, gatherings essentially disbound, wrappers chipped, text clean, fair. Elise was born in Austria and married the Sinologist Herbert Allen Giles. Of her Giles wrote: In all those 38 years not a syllable came from my pen which was not examined by her and approved before publication. Her series China coast tales was

• Binding: Wrappers

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