Mannix william francis ed (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Sepia photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, xvii + 298pp. Yellow cloth covered boards, a little soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and very clean. 22 x15cm. This book when published was regarded as the genuine autobiography of the Chinese viceroy and military leader Li Hongzhang, but it was later discovered that it had been written by "a vagabond newspaper man in a Honolulu jail". A very interesting example of a literary forgery.…