Genthe's pre-quake photographs of Chinatown
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Author: Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin
Title: Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Mitchell Kennerley
Date Published: 1913
Description: 208 pp. Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated throughout with halftones from photographs by Arnold Genthe. Black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Second Edition.Expanded edition of Genthe's 1908 classic volume of photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown as it was before the 1906 earthquake. Bookseller sticker present.
Condition Report: Touches of rubbing to cloth; binding shaken around page 132, occasional marginal smudging; very good.
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Heading:
Author: Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin
Title: Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Mitchell Kennerley
Date Published: 1913
Description: 208 pp. Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated throughout with halftones from photographs by Arnold Genthe. Black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Second Edition.Expanded edition of Genthe's 1908 classic volume of photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown as it was before the 1906 earthquake. Bookseller sticker present.
Condition Report: Touches of rubbing to cloth; binding shaken around page 132, occasional marginal smudging; very good.
