The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years' Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago
by LEE, JAMES S
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Sampson Low, Marston & Co. (n/d). Super octavo, red boards with black lettering to spine, ix + 278pp, illus, VG- (heavy dampstaining and wrinkling to lower board edges, bruising and heavy scuffing with loss to spine extrems & boards corners, moderate tanning to spine, spine sl cocked, light foxing to page edges, dampstaining to end pages lower edges, occasional damp wrinkling to plates)
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- The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years' Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago
- Author
- LEE, JAMES S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston & Co. (n/d)
- Keywords
- James S Lee Narcotics drugs East Asia Sociology history autobiography
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