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New York.: McGraw-Hill.. Reprint.. 1934.. Maps, one colour folding with small tear, black and white photographic illustrations, tables, one folding, xvii + 436pp, bibliography, index, good copy in original black cloth, lettered brightly in gilt on the spine. "This book has evolved during a decade of travel and research. Field work was commenced in 1923 when the author entered China by way of the Gobi Desert to assume a position as geologist on the Faculty of the University of Shanghai. During the next six years the writer travelled 30,000 miles, seeing some part of the 28 provinces except Yunnan, Szechwan, Sikang, Sinkiang and Fukien,; and all of the 15 geographic regions but the Red Basin and the Southwestern Tableland. Numerous vicissitudes have accompanied this work. Bandit encounters and civil warfare have several times complicated field studies. Interior travel has also brought difficulties. Following 3 preliminary mimeographed editions, which appeared in Shanghai from 1926 to 1928, work on the present manuscript was commenced in 1928. The book was originally to have been published by The Commercial Press of Shanghai under the title "The Geography of China". Numerous delays held up presswork, but the book was about to appear when the plant of the Press was destroyed by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai early in 1932. This resulted in the loss of all maps and photographs. The present volume has been reorganized and completely rewritten." From the preface. Includes chapter on the Tibetan borderland. .