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The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady

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Item Details

Description

First edition.

Dust-jacket with title and tipped-in colour plate. [tape repair]

Publishers buff pictorial cloth with title.

Untrimmed page-blocks.

Tipped-in colour frontispiece.

14 full-page illustrations.

Sporadic foxing.

A very beautiful copy.
Publisher

T. N. Foulis., London

Author

Elizabeth Cooper

Date Published

1919

Binding

Hardcover with pictorial dust-jacket

Condition

Good

Reserve: $15.00

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