Famous Chinese Plays by L.C. Arlington and Harold Acton - 1937

Taipei: White Lotus Press, 1984. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.82. Famous Chinese Plays

Peking: Henri Vetch. 1937. Original cloth boards, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp xxx, 443. Book worn and shaken, tape marks endpapers, pencilled annotations rear free endpaper, pages tanned. Presentation inscription to Lily Kavanagh (1897-1988), drama teacher in Perth (WA), from Gladys Shem. Gladys was the daughter of Harold Shem, a prominent Chinese trader in Perth (Harold Fee Fun Shem, 1895-1975). From the library of Lily Kavanagh. Gladys graduated in 1937, the year of publication. Good condition. Collection of thirty-three Chinese plays, illustrated with b&w photographs of actors in costume. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Peiping:: Henri Vetch,, 1937.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a jacket with the slightest of use at extremities, some very slight dust-soiling, and an offset shadow (from a newspaper clipping laid in?) on the front flap of the jacket.. 8vo,. Illustrated.

Henry Vetch, Peiping., 1937. First edition. Octavo. pp xxx, 443. Illustrated with photographs of scenes from productions of the plays. J. Hope-Johnston provides transcriptions of nine pieces of music.On the front free endpaper is the ownership signature of novelist and historian Pat Barr. Endpapers faintly tanned. Very good in good, chipped, nicked and marked dustwrapper faded at the spine.