The Silent Traveller in New York

Title: The Silent Traveller in New York

Author: Yee, Chiang

Publication: London: Methuen & Co., 1950.

Description: First edition of this travelogue on New York City by Chinese American writer and artist Chiang Yee. With over 120 black-and-white in-text illustrations by Yee, plus 17 color plates. Bound in full tan cloth stamped in green with decorated endpapers in red and blue. In original pictorial dust jacket. 8.75 x 5.5 inches; xv, [1], 281, [1] pages, [17] leaves of plates. A somewhat worn copy with a lean to the spine; soiling to the top edge; a printing error on pages 227-8; small chips and soiling on the price-clipped dust jacket. Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. Chiang Yee was one of the first 20th-century Chinese writers to publish books in English. He was known for The Silent Traveller series, which detailed his visits to various locations in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the United States, and Japan. He was born in China in 1903, moved to England in 1933, and then relocated to the United States in 1955, becoming a professor of Chinese at Columbia University. He was the subject of a 2010 biography by Da Zheng and a 2012 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.