Arnold Genthe [photography]; Will Irwin [text]

Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe [Inscribed by Genthe to Esther Cleveland]

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Very Good. Item #39128

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Second Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's black cloth with gilt and red lettering and decoration; [x],208pp.; black and white photographs throughout. Boards bumped along edges, with some spotting and scuffing to cloth. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, a Very Good copy. 

Inscribed on front free endpaper to President Grover Cleveland's daughter: "For Miss Esther Cleveland - So that she may know what the real Chinatown looked like when she sees the new one -- with best wishes from Arnold Genthe, New York, February 1915." Genthe photographed Esther Cleveland in New York on February 8, 1915. The negative from that photography session is now held at the Library of Congress. .

Price: $750.00