MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE

by Arthur Waley

$200 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1919 . Octavo, original drab boards with linen spine, spine lettered in black. First edition. Translations of sixty-eight Chinese poems, prose letters and short stories, with emphasis on the writings of Po Chü-i. Waley was an eminent Orientalist, and the present volume is a semi-scholarly edition. Early owner's signature dated October 1919 on front free endpaper. A clean,

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