Author: Waley, Arthur
Title: The Book of Songs. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. Supplement Containing Textual Notes
Description: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. / Boston: The Houghton Mifflin Company, (1937). (1937). London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. / Boston: The Houghton Mifflin Company, (1937). (1937). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE SUPPLEMENT BY ARTHUR WALEY - Octavo, light green cloth titled in brown on the front cover, in its original printed peach dust wrapper titled in silver gray. The dust jacket is slightly foxed with a small tear to the tail of the jacket's spine, a slightly longer creased tear to the top of the jacket's rear panel and with a small piece out from that panel's bottom corner. 32 pages. There is some minor foxing and a Singapore bookseller's discreet label is mounted at the bottom of the front pastedown. Very good.

First edition of the RARE supplement to the Book of Songs.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the supplement only and does not include "The Book of Songs". Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; CHINESE; ASIAN; ARTHUR WALEY; THE BOOK OF SONGS; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; TRANSLATED; TRANSLATION; TEXTUAL NOTES; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; PHILOSOPHY; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ORIENTALIA; CHINA; SUPPLEMENT; CALLIGRAPHY; ENGLISH TEXT; RELIG

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