INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING: BEING THE NOTES OF AN EYE-WITNESS, WHICH SET FORTH IN SOME DETAIL, FROM DAY TO DAY, THE REAL STORY OF THE SIEGE AND SACK OF A DISTRESSED CAPITAL IN 1900 -- THE YEAR OF GREAT TRIBULATION. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1907. Octavo, pp. 447, original crimson cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. A personal account of the Boxer Rebellion in China, during which xenophobic Chinese murdered thousands of foreigners. Putnam Weale went on to become a prolific author of both nonfiction and fiction with Asian themes and settings. Front free endpaper missing, spine panel a bit sunned, still generally a very good copy. (#147218).
Price: $45.00
"Published, March, 1907" on copyright page.