[Rarebooks] For Sale: Gardner's "Chiefly the Orient," inscribed

[Norman Kane]

GARDNER, GEORGE PEABODY, JR.  CHIEFLY THE ORIENT. AN UNDIGESTED 
JOURNAL . . . 27 JULY, 1910 - 10 JUNE, 1911.  Privately Printed [at 
the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.], Christmas, 
1912.  First        (& only) edition.  Large octavo, original 
gilt-stamped cloth, pictorial onlay, top edge gilt, slightly rubbed, 
x, 378 pages.  Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated.
SIGNED INSCRIPTION: "To Edward Bowditch as a reminder of our pleasant 
stay in the P[hilippine] I[slands.] Dec. 21st 1912. G. Peabody Gardner Jr."
(Bowditch was Secy. to the Governor General & Secy. & Vice Governor 
of Moro Province 1907-1914, & was personal Aide-de-Camp to General 
Pershing during WW I.)  (A post-graduation junket by several Harvard 
men.  Russia, Japan, China, the Philippines, India, Egypt, Java, 
Turkey, Greece, &c.) Printed circular, "Industrial & Sales Exhibition 
at the Philippine Carnival 1913," laid in.
$90.00

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