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. Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe. Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Coves worn. Spine torn at top. Inscribed by Will Irwin.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, ix, 208 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to front and rear boards. Some denting to edges. Cloth frayed at head of spine. Age-toning and foxing to textblock. Ex-library with usual markings, including two institutional stamps on front pastedown, tearing to rear endpaper presumably from library pocket, and institutional sticker on rear endpaper. Features photographs throughout. Shelved in Art History. 1379183. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover very worn at extremities; cracks along hinges, fraying at spine head and foot and at corners. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Some give to spine, but binding is solid. Chip to half-title page, but otherwise pages are clean and undamaged; Black cloth with gilt titles. Good+ with no dustjacket. Out of print; 9.5x6.25"; 208 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold. Old Chinatown A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe. Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octovo hardcover in navy, tight binding, fresh unmarked pages, covers have light wear, bumps, else VG++, no DJ. Heavy solid hefts well in hand, filled with many photos, apparently more than previous edition, a first thus? Chinatown as it was at turn of 20th century, San Francisco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208pp pages
Seller: Mossback Books, hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Second "Expanded" Issue with 91 images. Very Near Fine in black vertically striated cloth stamped in gilt and red at spine and front cover. 208pp. with Foreword by Irwin. Lower spine-points rubbed. Gilt bright. Q15629
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SECOND EDITION ENLARGED. 1 vol., 9-3/8" x 6-1/4", illustrated, original gilt decorated black cloth, internally clean and bright, a NEAR FINE copy.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Original black cloth, lightly worn; very good. This edition contains twice as many photographs as the first, and the gravure reproductions are much better.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$248.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This second edition contains twice as many photographs as the first, and the gravure reproductions are of a much finer quality. An important record of the Chinese in San Francisco by an important American photographer. Tall 8vo, 208pp, 91 plates. Original black cloth, with gold title and red and gold Chinese symbol. A fine copy with an early mylar cover.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Text by Will Irwin. Illustrated from halftone photographs by Arnold Genthe throughout. (8vo), black cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Inscribed, but probably not by the author. Light rubbing along joints of somewhat sunned spine, a few stains, corners rubbed; leaves mildly toned; very good or better. A rather haunting collection of photographs of Chinese people living in the Chinatown section of Francisco at the turn of the last century.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Photography - Genthe, Arnold. Old Chinatown (Inscribed). Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1913.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Royal 8vo. Black cloth covers with raised red and gilt lettering and decorations to the front panel. This is the second and expanded edition of Genthe's classic volume of photographs of old Chinatown. 208 pp. Text by Will Irwin. A most handsome copy with just some very minor corner wear. Internally fine. An important volume in the canon of early 20th century photography, noted (in the first printing) by Parr & Badger's seminal work The Photobook Vol. One. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Genthe and dated in 1915 to "Miss Esther Cleveland - so that she may know what the real Chinatown looked like when she was the new un - with __ wish fron Arnold Genthe". It is unknown whether the inscribee in this case was actually the daughter of President Grover Cleveland or not.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Arnold Genthe. Old Chinatown. MITchell Kennerley, New York, 1913.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: A wonderful Association copy. WARMLY INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper BY ARNOLD GENTHE TO HARRISON FISHER (1877-1934), American illustrator of the first-rank. A sharp copy to boot of the 1913 2nd printing. Solid and VG+, with bright gilt-lettering to the front panel and spine. One very small, inconspicuous stain at the front panel's fore-edge, otherwise very, very clean. Octavo, 208 pgs. Signed by Author.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.