3 copies of Old Chinatown
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Author: Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin
Title: 3 copies of Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Mitchell Kennerly
Date Published: [1913]
Description:
3 volumes. Unpaginated. Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated from halftone photographs by Arnold Genthe throughout. 23.5x15.24 cm (9¼x6"), black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Second edition.
With postcards laid in and newspaper articles tipped in. 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.
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Heading:
Author: Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin
Title: 3 copies of Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Mitchell Kennerly
Date Published: [1913]
Description:
3 volumes. Unpaginated. Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated from halftone photographs by Arnold Genthe throughout. 23.5x15.24 cm (9¼x6"), black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Second edition.
With postcards laid in and newspaper articles tipped in. 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.