Author: MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Translations from the Chinese
Description: New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1922. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book has marbled paper covered boards with a cloth spine. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing to the decorated covers and some toning to the white portions of the spine and front cover labels. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers are noticeably toned. "Morley was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Christopher Morley The Old Mandarin Short Stories China


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