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1st Edition 8vo. original coth, spine gilt titled . ex library,usual marks, but overall quite a well preserved copy. Uncommon 288p., index, translated from the French by W. B. Wells. Covering the erotic activities of European women in Asia, their relationships with Chinese and foreigners. The women travelers of Marseilles, Siberian Pearl in the Yellow casket, Singapore marriages, walled gardens. Among contents: With the Colonials, from Malaya to Indo-China. New Saigon "Professionals," Runners, "boys and Malabars." The gates of China open to white women, Hong Kong Yellow Slaves -some times half-white. The author was familiar to Lyndhurst Terrace Hong Kong's red light district in the 1930's. Shanghai: Navy girls, walkers on the Shanghai Bund, Venus Bar. Interviews with dozens of perverts, pimps, pederasts and prostitutes through Southeast Asia, China and Japan.