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Duke University Press. Durham, North Carolina. 1928. First Edition;. pages 339, index; e/p map, colour frontis, 11 illutsts.; hardcover (slight insect damage to spine cloth); (new back endpaper) very good condition. . Signed by author and author's personal photos inside, an autobiographical account of an American tobacco merchant in the Far East, in 1897 he arrived in China with the objective of converting the Chinese from pipes to cigarettes, includes the Boxer Rebellion, Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, Japan during the Spanish-American War, India, Singapore, very readable period account.