Memoirs of Li Hung Chang.
Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. First Edition. Stock ID #167714 This book when published was regarded as the genuine autobiography of the Chinese viceroy and military leader Li Hung Chang (1822-1901) but it was later discovered that it had been written by "a vagabond newspaper man in a Honolulu jail". Very interesting example of a literary forgery. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167714.
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.
Price: $85.00 AU
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