Chin-Pao and the Giant Pandas

First edition, third impression.  84pp, with colour plate frontispiece, three further colour plates interleafed in text and numerous line drawings in text.  Blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth is a little tired and dull, gently rounded at corners and spine ends.  Text block edges shadowed and dusty.  Pages off-bright and a faintly spotted in places but clean and neat; firmly bound.  Illustrated dust jacket, price obscured by small greetings stamp dated 1943, shelf worn, soiled and rubbed and bumped around edges, a little sunned over the spine.

A charmingly illustrated story of a young Chinese boy and his adventures in his native forest with a family of giant pandas.  The book is dedicated to Lloyd S Tangier-Smith, the Japanese born American adventurer best remembered for exporting the first Giant Pandas out of China to the west in the 1930s.