CHINA IN SIGN AND SYMBOLS BY LOUISE CRANE,Published by Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghai (1926). No jacket. Crane, Kent (illustrator). First edition. Copyright 1926. Bound in cream buckram, with crisp gilt-stamped titling and crisp gilt- and orange-stamped decoration to the front board, with gilt lettering also to the spine. Soiling to the binding; some unhinging of the spine. Foxing. Estimate $400-600
PROVENANCE: Ex. coll. J. Van Antwerp MacMurray, minister to China in 1930s, and later Ambassador to Turkey; subsequently ambassador to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (concurrently).
Inside cover autograph signed in black ink script "J. V. Antwerp MacMurray/American Legation/Peking"
NOTE: American Legation occupied what is now Tiananmen Square, Beijing
