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Author: Mennie, Donald, photographer
Title: Pageant of Peking
Place Published: Shanghai
Publisher:A. S. Watson & Co.
Date Published: 1920 [i.e. 1921]
Description:

40 pp. Introduction by Putnam Weale. 66 tipped-in Vandyck photogravures from photographs by Donald Mennie. 38x29 cm (15x11½"), original blue silk cover stamped in gilt. Second edition.

Photogravures of famous views such as the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travelers, and others. Donald Mennie was a photographer in Shanghai and Peking from 1920 until the late 1930s.

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Cloth worn with some loss and separation from board, front board tenderly attached; interior quite clean; very good or better.

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The Pageant of Peking by Donald Mennie

Name: The Pageant of Peking by Donald Mennie
SKU: 157588371
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