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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 57 pages. 1st edition Sept. 1908, 2nd printing June 1909. Contains 56 photographs by Arnold Genthe with text by Will Irwin. Foreword by Will Irwin. No dust jacket as issued. Boards- orange cloth, photo on front, red lettering on spine. Faded, scuffed, rubbed, bumped, edges frayed, torn. Binding- cracked at hinge areas inside. Pages- age toned, some foxing. Protective cover.
Seller: DRM books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold (and Will Irwin). Pictures of Old Chinatown. Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition with matching 1908 date on title and copyright pages. Genthe's iconic photos of turn of century San Francisco Chinatown. Ex-libris copy with pocket, stamps etc. Photos are clear and well-preserved on glossy thick paper. Binding threads are pulled at several hinges, but holding. Photo of young woman has a pencil "frame" added. Sturdy library type covers - book appears to have been rebound at some point. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca library.
Seller: Eve's Book Garden, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold. Text by Will Irwin.. PICTURES OF OLD CHINATOWN.. Moffat, Yard & Co, NY, 1908.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Original orange cloth with pictorial paper label on front cover, octavo (6.5 x 9 inches), (viii), 57 pp. + frontis and 46 b/w photo plates. . Mild wear to cover, foxing to first and last few pages, else about very good
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold. PICTURES OF OLD CHINATOWN. Moffat, Yard: NY, 1908.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos by Genthe, text by Will Irwin. 9 x 6", cloth with pict label, 57pp, covers moderately rubbed and soiled, foredge spotted, text has scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION OF GENTHE'S FIRST BOOK. From the foreword by Will Irwin: "You, the only man who ever had the patience to photograph the Chinese, you, who found art in the snap-shot- you were making yourself, unconsciously, all that time, the sole recorder of old Chinatown". This book on San Francisco's Chinatown was published two years after the great 1906 earthquake.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold and Irwin, Will. Pictures of Old Chinatown. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, 1908.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers rubbed else a Solid Very Good copy. The 2nd Printing.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9" tall x 6 1/2 wide. Orange cloth bound with full front cover photo image and title. Published September 1908. 57 pgs text plus 47 full page photographic plates in b+w. Spine title lettering faded but readable. A few pages have small spots with some spotting to edge of text block else clean inside. Despite this a better than average copy of this important photographic history book. San Francisco Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire. Genthe's most famous work.
Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin. Pictures of Old Chinatown. Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 56pgs. of text. photo frontispiece and 47 black and white illustrations. Pictorical cover over orange boards. The book has light wear to the corner tips and spine edges, otherwise like new, uinmarked copy. The title page date (1908) matches the copyright page, September 1908 indicating a true first Edition. Genthe's classic volume of photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown as it was before the 1906 earthquake. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated with photos. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth, with pictorial label on upper cover. Library number on spine, blind stamp on title page else very good Illustrated with photos. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 57 pp. Genthe's classic volume of sepia photographs paired with text by Will Irwin. A most handsome copy of the correct first printing (Published September 1908). Slight wear and scuffs to boards. Spine ends lightly pinched. The front endpaper has a small, neat prior owner inscription as well as a small bookseller sticker. Nice copy of an important early 20th century volume in the field of photography.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Irwin, Will. PICTURES OF OLD CHINATOWN. , 1908.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: (Genthe, Arnold). PICTURES OF OLD CHINATOWN. Text by Will Irwin. Moffat, Yard and Co., NY, 1908 (First Edition). 8vo., cloth with paste-on illustration, 56pp. text and 56 photos of Chinatown in San Francisco. An expanded edition was published in 1913 by Mitchell Kennerly; both are scarce, this first edition extremely so. A bit rubbed and darkened at spine, but still a Very Good copy.
Seller: Edward T. Pollack, ABAA, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [10], 57, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 55 photo plates. Orange cloth, photographic plate w/ red lettering mounted on front cover, lettering on spine (minor soiling & rubbing to spine, some edgewear), still a VG bright copy. First edition, 1st printing (Sept., 1908 on verso of title) of this work composed of photos taken from before the great fire in San Francisco's Chinatown. They provide an invaluable reference to the lost world of fish peddlers, formal traditional Chinese costumes, as well as opium dens, slave girls, and more.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Genthe, Arnold and Will Irwin. Pictures of Old Chinatown. Moffat Yard and Company September, 1908.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in photographically illustrated orange boards without dustjacket as issued, 57 text pages with many photographic illustrations, very good condition except spine and rear cover are darkened and some rubbing loss to the red letters on spine; front cover image and red title still very clean; internally fine; previous owner's name on first blank page, dated February 1909; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.