China, personal stories – Shaw (Lau – pseud.), Rickshaw Boy,...

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China, personal stories – Shaw (Lau – pseud.), Rickshaw Boy, trans. Evan King (pseud.), New York, Reynal and Hitchcock 1945 8vo, 384pp, monochrome vignettes, colour printed endpapers, yellow boars, gilt titles to black backstrip, d. w. (torn); Wang (George) and Barr (Betty) Shanghai Boy, Shanghai Girl: Livers in parallel, ed. Tess Johnston & Jeananne Hauswald, Hong Kong, Old China Hand Press, 1st edn. 2002, 8vo, 274pp, 2 maps, monochrome illus., 18 coloured plates and coloured diagram, colour printed card covers; Hahn (Emily) The Soong Sisters, New York, Doubleday 1941, 8vo, xxi + 349pp, frontis. and seven photographic illus., blurb from (lacking) d. w. pasted to inside front board, red boards, front one embellished with Chinese character, red spine titles on black reserve; Seagrave (Sterling), The Soong Dynasty, New York, Harper & Row, 1985, 8vo, 532pp, pedigree to pastedowns, black boards embellished with gilt dragon, gilt spine titles, d. w.; Aisin-Gioro (Pu Yi), trans. W. J. F. Jenner, From Emperor to Citizen: the Autobiography of Aisin Gioro Pu Yi, Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 1st single volume edn., 1989 8vo, 496pp, photographic illus., brown boards, gilt titles & spine titles, d. w. (5)