Lot 539

[PRISONS]. [CHINA]. Chinese Prisons (With Plans and Illustr...

Estimate: $500 - $700

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[PRISONS]. [CHINA]. Chinese Prisons (With Plans and Illustrations). Peking: Published by the Commission on Extraterritoriality, 1925. Large 8vo (258 x 176 mm). Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographic plates and seven fold-out plans. Later light-green cloth, burgundy and black gilt morocco lettering labels on spine as well as a paper shelf label (binding sunned, spine labels heavily worn, occasional soiling to binding, library inkstamp (?Association of the Bar Library, City of New York?) on title-page, inkstamps on copyright page, and datestamp on rp, mild toning to text). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK ON PRISONS.