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THE CHINESE FESTIVE BOARD

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Sales price $80.00

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Henri Vetch, Peiping, 1935, 1st Edition thus.  Hard cover, 153 pages.  Orange cloth with gilt decoration on front and rear boards, gilt lettering on spine.  Boards show some edge and cover wear, some soil spots, small tear to cloth at lower front gutter.  No jacket.  Binding sound with headbands.  Front and rear end papers and paste downs ‘Gastronomical Map of China’; rear end paper has faded water mark.  Biopredation evidence on some pages and in some gutters.  Five photo plates including frontis; black & white drawings; occasional age/soil spot.  Line-drawings and paper-ends by John Kirk Sewall.  Dinner Invitation bound in.  Covers Chinese dining, etiquette, dinner games, recipes, sample menus, Chinese proverbs, and English-Chinese dictionary of foodstuffs.

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