Portrait of a Chinese lady and certain of her contemporaries

by Lady Hosie

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12 , 404; 24 plates from photographs, including frontispiece; fine copy in original red cloth, stamped in white on upper cover and spine, in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Biographies of Chinese men and women in Ms. Hosie's circle. Lady Hosie makes the Sung family of Shanghai and particularly Mrs. Sung the centre of her study of life in modern China. Mrs. Sung is young and lovely: in

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