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

[Charles Agvent]

PRICE REDUCED!

GENTHE, Arnold. OLD CHINATOWN. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. 
Second Edition. Enlarged from the First Edition of 1908 with 91 higher 
quality gravure plates, of this important work of documentary and 
ethnographic photography. Black cloth decorated in gilt and red. Text by 
Will Irwin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author 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 until 1971 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 the dustwrapper, with 
a remarkable association.    Was $2,000.00    Now:  $1,200.00	

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