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1904 A Yankee on the Yangtze
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
The first UK edition of this work from Geil, an American evangelist, explorer, lecturer and photographer. He is believed to be the first American to have travelled the entire length of the Ming section of the Great Wall of China.
Illustrated with ninety-nine photographic plates, each featuring a number of images. Collated, lacking the plate which should appear between pages 208 and 209, which featured three images.
A fascinating account of the author's travels through Shanghai and Burma, with discussion of the Yangtze Gorges, Chinese interpreters, copper mining, and opium.
The scarce first UK edition.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Marks to front joint. Front hinge significantly strained, with front free endpaper and frontispiece tenderly held. Small loss to one corner of frontispiece. Rear hinge strained but firmly held. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages clean and bright.
Good
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