Item #6556 The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland. CHIANG Yee.
The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland.
The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland.

The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland.

London New York: Country Life LTD. Transatlantic Arts Inc., (1949). Chiang Yee. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. Frontis. illustration. With 12 other illustrations throughout. Bound in taupe cloth with Chinese characters stamped on front board, English lettering on spine. Former owner name on front free endpaper, which also features a card, dated 1952, with a typed gift inscription, tipped in. That leaf is also clipped at the corner. The illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, shows light edge-wear, and a chip at the top of the front panel. Please see photo. Good+ / Good+. Item #6556

An early reprint of the first of Chiang Yee's Silent Traveller series. The book was so well received it launched a career for the author-artist; when his London publisher dispatched him to gain impressions of New York and Boston for future titles in the series, he was induced by Columbia University to consider a professorship. By 1955 he committed to that offer.

Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

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Price: $50.00

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