Genthe, Arnold
Pictures of Old Chinatown; With Text by Will Irwin
Moffat, Yard and Company, New York: 1908
- $750
8vo, 57pp with 46 full-page plates; cloth-backed photographic boards. Genthe's great compendium documenting life in San Francisco's Chinatown before the catastrophic earthquake and fire. This copy bears a poignant association, with the 1908 signature on the front endpaper of Ina Coolbrith, celebrated poet and librarian at the center of San Francisco's literary scene, author of Song from the Golden Gate, mentor to Jack London, and California's first poet laureate. Spine faded; edges a bit marked; mounted photo on front cover has only some minuscule bits of rubbing to the edges and a small fingernail scratch; a very good copy
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