[Rarebooks] FS: 1878 San Francisco lampoon of Chinese immigrants in California w/orig. litho wrappers

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Whitney, Atwell. ALMOND-EYED. A STORY OF THE DAY. With Seventeen Full-Page Illustrations. (San Francisco): Printed for the author by A. L. Bancroft. 1878. 12mo. 168pp. With an added litho. title, and 16 lithographs in the text. Complete. This copy in the orig. printed wrappers which has a litho. illustration of a "Chinaman" smoking a pipe on both wrappers, with the caption, "The Great Agitator." Bottom outer corner of text has an old water stain, and some other occasional soiling. Housed in a brown cloth folder and slipcase.    $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
Humorous fiction making fun of the Chinese immigrants in California. Wright III #5936. Cowan p. 681.

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