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The Fly Leaf [complete run of five issues, bound together with the first three issues of The Philistine] by Harte, Walter, editor - 1896

by Harte, Walter, editor

The Fly Leaf [complete run of five issues, bound together with the first three issues of The Philistine] by Harte, Walter, editor - 1896

The Fly Leaf [complete run of five issues, bound together with the first three issues of The Philistine]

by Harte, Walter, editor

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Boston; New York, 1896. All five issues of the short-lived chapbook-style little magazine, together with the first three issues of its successor, bound together in plain green cloth with gilt spine title; front free endpaper loose but present; the original covers of all issues removed for binding (not present). The February 1896 issue of the Fly Leaf includes Sui Seen Far (Sui Sin Far)'s short story "The Gamblers," about two opium-smoking Chinese men who kill one another in a fight at a gambling den. Sui Seen Far was one of the pseudonyms of Edith Eaton, daughter of a British father and a Chinese mother. 1896 was the first year in which she published stories reflecting her Chinese background.