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Sale 392: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps (#392) 11/06/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #55 Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe

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Title:

Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe

Author:

Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Mitchell Kennerley

Date Published:

1913

Description:

Unpaginated. Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated from halftone photographs by Arnold Genthe throughout. 9¼x6, black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Second Edition.

Expanded edition of Genthe's classic volume of photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown as it was before the 1906 earthquake. A remarkable photographic document of a lost era.

Condition:

Spine slightly faded and leaning, mild edge wear, soiling; tape repair in gutter between pp. [20-21]; about very good.

Item#:

198017

Headline:

Arnold Genthe Old Chinatown 2nd Edition
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