A BOOK OF ‘PICTURES OF CHINA TOWN’ BY ARNOLD GENTHE IN1908.B031.Artist or Maker: Genthe, ArnoldDate: 1908Condition Report: Wear to spine, cover photo a bit scratched; near fine.Exhibited: New YorkThe famed photographer’s classic picture portrait of San Francisco’s old Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake, capturing the mystery and romance of the city within a city, as well as the sensitively-depicted faces of its inhabitants, men, women and children, from “young aristocrats” to slave girls, gamblers, opium addicts and sword dancers. With: Irwin, Wallace: Chinatown Ballads. Original decorative cloth with paste-on front-cover illustration by E.C. Peixotto bordered by a green dragon and red bamboo image. Illustrated with 8 black-and-white drawings by Peixotto. Duffield & Son, 1906. First Edition. Ballad-like poems of San Francisco Chinese, with some racist prose and pidgin-English dialect, written by the brother of journalist Will Irwin who would later be Genthe’s collaborator. Spine sunned, and a small tear on p. 29.Measure: Height 0.75", Width 6.5",Length 9.25 ".Domestic shipping (48 states): $69.95.B031.