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With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley

Author: Wade, Henling Thomas
Price: $350.00
Publisher Location: Shanghai, China
Publisher: Shanghai Mercury
Year Published: 1910
Book Condition: Near Fine
Binding: Hardcover
This is the preferred second edition, much enlarged from the first. Rebound in 3/4 dark green buckram and a brown title label and bright gilt letters on the spine. Inside, very clean and tight with no stains or foxing or browning. Intended for the expatriate community of Shanghai, a cultural and hunting guide to the Yangtze Valley. It includes chapters from "valued contributors on houseboats, Chinese methods of trapping and hunting, topography, houseboats and yachting. After page 108 a revised list of yachts at the Shanghai Club is tipped in. An handsome copy. A table of distances at the end has Chinese as well as English place names.
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