Excelsior: being an inadequate description of the upper Yangtze. Compiled

by Charon and dedicated to those who served with him

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First edition

Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd., 1934. First edition, 16mo, pp. 50; black and white photographic frontispiece, text illustrations throughout, map endpapers; original blue cloth lettered in yellow, unadorned spine; contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown, minor wear and rubbing; else very good. From the Foreword: The following notes on the Upper Yangtze have been put together with a view to giving the Ship's Companies of Gunboats

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