CHINATOWN BALLADS.
by Irwin, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good only in illustrated beige cloth - missing front endpaper, some edge tears to pages, other wear.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Duffield,, 1906.. Hardcover first edition -. Good only in illustrated beige cloth - missing front endpaper, some edge tears to pages, other wear. . First printing. Stereotypical ballads depicting Chinese American life in San Francisco's Chinatown - but these also deal with some very real events - the bubonic plague which hit San Francisco in 1900 (and which first affected Chinatown) and the earthquake of 1906. Illustrated with eight glossy plates from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. 81 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40826
- Title
- CHINATOWN BALLADS.
- Author
- Irwin, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good only in illustrated beige cloth - missing front endpaper, some edge tears to pages, other wear.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duffield,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1906.
- Keywords
- san francisco, california, asian-americans, 1906 earthquake, bubonic plague, stereotypes, herb doctors,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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