The Colour of the East [Color]

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Guerin, Jules; Hood, George Washington. Mary Parke Foster's copy, with her bookplate and name and date in pencil on front endpapers (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's birthplace in Watertown, which included many works owned by him and relatives). Copyright page removed, edges and front and end matter foxed, spine titles faded. 1912 Hard Cover. 191 pp. Blue cloth, orange titles. Initials GWH on front board, indicating George Washington Hood designed the binding. Frontispiece by Jules Guerin. A collection of sketches from travels in Asia, including chapters on the Suez Canal and the Himalayas. Includes: A Preface of Sorts; The Canal; The Red Sea; Dawn in the Desert; The Himalayas; Rangoon; Singapore; Papang and His Garden; The Storm in the Night; Manila; Cebu; The Road to the Dawn; Yellow Reason; Father and Son; The Camel-Coolie; Mukden; Barbarians.