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CHUNG LING SOO (William Ellsworth Robinson). The Chung Ling Soo Mysteries. London: J. Weiner Ltd., ca. 1918. Half-sheet color lithograph bearing a bust portrait of Soo in the center of a peacock feather, on a striped pastel background. 29 7/8 x 20 1/8”. Linen backed. Minor creases and pale spotting in margins. A-. This the version overprinted The Chung Ling Soo Mysteries, as the show was called when it toured for a brief period by Li Sing Foo (Athur Hortopp) after Soo’s death. The small area blacked out was originally lettered “Marvellous Chinese Conjurer.”