Search Results: the temple and other poems by waley arthur translator

New York: Knopf, 1923. Hardcover. 150p., hardcover with rubbed edges, blue boards faded around the top. Pages unopened at bottom.

New York: Knopf. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Buckram spine, paper covered boards; edges rubbed, spine cloth browned; pencil name on endpaper, endpapers aged brown, but binding firm ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages .

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. The first American edition, using UK sheets with title page being a cancel. Cloth backed paper covered boards, title and date "1923" printed in blue onto spine, Chinese characters stamped in gilt onto bottom corner of upper board, 12mo (7-1/2 inches [19 cm] tall), pp. [1]-150, [151], [152 - blank], appendices, index, printed on heavy watermarked paper. Volume with fading to covers and spine, paper edges rubbed through in places, endpapers toned, scattered foxing throughout, original $2 price in pencil to upper corner of ffep, cover gilt still bright. With Knopf's four page Fall, 1923 catalogue loosely laid in, confirming the "$2.00" issue price. The first four chapters offer an in-depth discussion of traditional Chinese poetry etc., before starting into 16 important Chinese poems.

Allen & Unwin, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 'With an introductory essay on early Chinese poetry, and an appendix on the development of different metrical forms'. Tight and sound copy. Publisher's hardcover binding with paper spine label. Some staining to endpapers, binding lightly rubbed/dust soiled, label rubbed and darkening. No inscriptions. 151 pages, index. Approx. size 8" by 5.5". Allen & Unwin, London 1923 - 12mo. 151 pp. Cloth binding, printed label, scattered foxing, else good copy. (85514). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26339. .