[Rarebooks] FS: Arnold Genthe's OLD CHINATOWN Inscribed to the only person born in the White House

[Charles Agvent]

GENTHE, Arnold OLD CHINATOWN Inscribed to the only person born in the 
White House
Mitchell Kennerley New York 1913 The Second Edition, enlarged from the 
original of 1908 with 91 higher quality gravure plates. Black cloth 
decorated in gilt and red. Text by Will Irwin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by 
Genthe on the front endpaper to Esther Cleveland, one of Grover 
Cleveland's five children and the only child to date to be born in the 
White House: "For/Miss Esther Cleveland/--So that she may know/what the 
real Chinatown/looked like, when she/sees the new one--/with best wishes 
from/Arnold Genthe/New York/February 1915." Miss Cleveland would have 
been 21 or 22 at the time of this inscription. She would in a few years 
depart for England where she did volunteer work during World War I and 
where she met and married her husband, settling there until1971 when she 
returned to the United State and remained there until her death in 1980. 
Mild spotting of cloth on spine and rear cover. Near Fine, lacking a 
dustwrapper, with a remarkable association.    $2000.00

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