Buy this book on-line ARTHUR WALEY : A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. Translated and introduced by Arthur WaleyConstable, London, 1918
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 168pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in red at the spine. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed, and the backstrip lightly tanned. Faint ghost of partially erased former owner name pencilled to the front free endpaper. Binding a little tender at several gathering and a short tear to the preliminary note leaf, impacting no text. Some light occasional spotting. A good copy of Waley's uncommon second book, which was preceded only by a privately printed book of translations, of which circa fifty copies were printed. 140 poems appear here in English translations for the first time, with thirty more newly translated. A sixteen-page introduction precedes poems by various poems, followed by a second nine-page introduction preceding poems by Po Chü-I.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ARTHUR WALEY : A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. Translated and introduced by Arthur Waley. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, livres illustrées, used books, collectables and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |