first edition
1922 · Shanghai
by Hayes, L. Newton
Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd, 1922. First edition, thin 12mo, pp. xv, [1], 40; 28 illustrations, mostly full-page and mostly from photographs; Shanghai ownership inscription on front free endaper dated January, 1923; very good in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt. Concerns the dragon in Chinese life, literature, mythology, etc.
(Inventory #: 42584)