China coast tales nos. 7 & 8. Two women and A-Kuei

by Lise Boehm, Pseud. of Elise Williamina Giles

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1903. 8vo, pp. 4 , 42, 2 , 91, 1 ; original printed green wrappers; spine largely perished, wrappers soiled, musty, text clean, good. 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 written while

• Binding: Wrappers

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