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Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1926. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ivan A. Donnelly. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Original blue cloth boards with gilt on front and spine. Boards show corner bumps softening and spotting, with the worst being in the upper left corner where there's a small white splash. Previous owner's name and date on front free end page, no other handwriting or bookplates noted. Pages show toning and foxing with the worst being on the exterior edges. See photos.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited . A clean, tight hardcover in good minus condition; corners bumped, faded/yellowed blue cloth, cloth lightly worn at extremities, foxing and age-toning at edges, end papers and title page, gift inscription dated 1923 on end paper. . Good Minus . Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1921.

Kelly & Walsh. 1926. 2nd ed.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. no dust jacket, wear along spine & cover edges.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Ltd, 1926 Captain Plant was the pioneer navigator of the Yangtze and largely responsible for enabling the development of trade on the upper Yangtze in the early 20th century. This was the golden period for foreign travellers on the river and this book is full of descriptive interest and teeming with legend and Chinese folklore. 86pp illustrated with halftones and line drawings by I.A.Donnelly.

Shangha:Kelly and Walsh Limited, 1921. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/03/0_img_7218.jpg. Shangha:Kelly and Walsh Limited. 1921. 1st edition.  xi+86pp. Illustrated by Ivon A. Donnelly (frontispiece in color). Hardcover.  Blue boards lightly soiled with gilt still bright. Boards slightly warped. Page edges soiled. Internally end pages age toned but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Ivon A. Donnelly. The very scarce first edition of Samuel Cornell Plant's account of his journey along the Yangtze river. The very scarce first edition of this work.The author journeyed along the upper Yangzte for many years, and was known as the "Grand Old Man of the Upper Yangtze". Samuel Cornell Plant is best known as the first person to command a merchant steamer on the Upper Yangtze River in 1900. Plant later collaborated with Chinese merchants and the government to create the Sichuan Steam Navigation Company, serving as Captain of SS Shutung and SS Shuhun, and providing a regular merchant steam service on the Upper Yangtze.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and with numerous vignette and full page monochrome illustrations by Ivon A. Donnelly.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1922, to the front pastedown.The very scare first edition of this popular work. In the publisher's original cloth… Read More