The unexpurgated diary of a Shanghai baby

by Elsie McCormick

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Shanghai: The China Press, n.d., ca. 1920 . First edition, 12mo, pp. 4 , ii,98, 2 ; original limp red morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover; upper joint rubbed; very good, sound and clean. Ostensibly a diary March 29 to July 7 in an unknown year, but apparently this is a work of fiction. McCormick 1894-1962 was a native of San Francisco and began writing for school newspapers at the age of 11. A graduate of the University of California, she went to China

• Binding: Leather

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