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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xiv LXI plates hardback, facsimile reprint, limited to 500 copies, illustrations by Edward Lear and Sowerby new introduction by Williams, facsimile of the Sotheran 1872 issue.

Six issues of The China Journal of Science and Arts bound in worn cloth library binding. Issues bound without wrappers but otherwise complete. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout, tipped in colour plate December issue. Endpapers a litle browned, cloth torn along joints, cloth worn at extremities. Pencilled letter on one page but the contents are otherwise very clean and sound. Articles covering a wide spectrum of subjects and include: Some Notes on Tientsin and its Trade - J. Murphy; Notes on the Willows and Poplars of North China - J. Hers; The Future of Education in China - de C. Sowerby; a Preliminary Report on Botantical Investigation in South and Central Shansi - H. Smith; The Boxer Indemnity Funds and Museums in China - De C. Sowerby; Remarks on Some Ancient Relics in Honan - L.C. Arlington; Chinese Postage Stamps - Clifford M. Drury; With Lens and Shutter Among the Wild Life of Northern Tibet - Gene Lamb; Memories of Peking, the Northern Capital - By A China Born; Peking. A Memory - Gerve Baronti. From the library of American journalist George E. Sokolsky, his bookplate is laid down on the front paste down. George Sokolsky was an admirer of the Russian Revolution as a young man and on graduating from the Columbia School of Journalism he moved to the Soviet Union to write for the Russian Daily News. However following the overthrow of the Kerensky government by the Bolsheviks he became completely disillusioned with revolution and in the words of Bennett Cerf, a former classmate, "Suddenly the flaming radical, Sokolsky, became the flaming reactionary, George Sokolsky, and one of the most important columnists in the United States of America." Leaving Russia he arrived in China to begin a 14 year residence there. During this period he became the friend and confidente of many important people of the time including Sun Yat-sen, Soong May-ling and others while writing for The Shanghai Gazette. On returning to the US he became very influential in right wing circles becoming an intimate of J. Edgar Hoover and a great supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy.…