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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with gilt speckles and staple binding. No date, circa 1941 or 1945. 3 1/2" x 6." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Many small black-and-white printed photographs and illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Pages have a few small spots of foxing. First page has a wrinkle and small closed tear in upper-right corner. Covers have a few minuscule wrinkles, faint spots, and a tiny closed tear measuring about 1/8" on fore-edge of front cover. A Near Fine copy. A promotional booklet that features the highlights of the "Chinatown After Dark" tour. Includes brief descriptions of places in and around San Francisco's Chinatown, such as Grant Avenue, the Chinatown Telephone Exchange, Joss House, Chingwah Lee Art Studio (printed photograph of Chingwah Lee, one of the tour guides, located on last page), Nom Ku School on Sacramento Street, Barbary Coast, Telegraph Hill, Fisherman's Wharf, and other local points of interest. "This booklet is presented with the compliments of Gray Line." Gray Line was founded in 1910 as a sightseeing company by Louis Bush. Bush began giving tours in a refurbished Mack Truck in Washington, D.C., and by 1926, his company had expanded to other major cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, and New Orleans. Today, Gray Line has many licensees located around the world.…