Sold by RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
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Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Seller since June 19, 1997
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Manila 1906, McCullough. Green decorated cloth, very good, 239p., 18 b.w. plates, 97 b.w. photos, revised edition, text illustrations, 15.5 x 20.5 cm., minor & usual bit of corner rubbing, contents very clean & firm. * * Second Edition * * . *** **** *** . . AN EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE ON MANILA, . . . POINTS OF INTEREST, WALLS OF THE CITY, INTRAMUROS, . . . FT. SANTIAGO, CHURCHES, CURIOS, RUINS, ROMANCE, . . . STREET AND RIVER LIFE, FILIPINO INDUSTRY, HOME LIFE, . . . & WHERE SLEEP THE DEAD * A truly comprehensive and early guide by a foreign resident. Per the introduction by the author: "This is the second edition with much new material added, with many new photographic illustrations, all of which appear here for the first time." . *** CONTENTS: Intramuros, the Dream City, Fort Santiago, ruins & romance, Manila's churches, old organs and choir, convent curios, river life, Filipino industries, street life, Filipino home life, side trips about Manila, the new Philippines. . Well-written, packed with information relevant to the capitol city from the early period. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gold stamped front cover titles and an illustration of the Church. The spine has a red pen or pencil title & date: "MANILA 1906" hand-written on it. The first fly leaf appears to have been torn out. There are a few notes or comments in the text and occasional underline of key words. There is a penned number on the verso of the title page. . Else the book is firm, solid and attractive. Please see the photos posted to our website for more details. . The inside cover page has someone's fountain pen hand written notes [1-4] questioning the correctness of some photos. Inside the back cover first fly leaf are other penned notes, the text is clean. . *** REFERENCE: . Miller is also the author of: CHINA INSIDE OUT. . *.
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