Author: NANCE, FLORENCE RUSH (Born Keiser):
Title: Soochow the Garden City. Shanghai; Hong Kong; Singapore, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, 1936.
Description: . (viii), 76. With five folding maps and twenty-four halftone photographic plates. Photos by C.H. Wong and A.J. Waller. Original pictorial paper boards with endpapers illustrating maps of Soochow waterways. First edition of this practical guide to Soochow and surroundings. Comprising six different sight-seeing trips and recommendations of attractions and shopping. A lovely copy. Florence Rush Nance had a science degree from Vanderbilt. She married a Methodist missionary and moved to China where she taught at the McTyeire School for Young Ladies in Shanghai and at Soochow University. She died in Shanghai in 1940.

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