Bynner Witter Translator (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 100 pages. 5.25x0.25x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of a limited First Edition of 1450 copies. The book is bound in red cloth spine over blue cloth boards with title and author on paper labels on the front cover and spine. There is a line of soiling on the back cover. Corners and spine caps lightly worn. Pages are age-tanned, clean and unmarked. Poetry by the French libertarian poet.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Shelf wear. Front end page excised. Small scuff mark to rear board. Pages unmarked. Poems of note include: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, Hymn to Science, I Tremble to Think, Alcoholic Goblins, and The Epicure. xiii, 210 p., 26 cm. …

Unknown. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Stain on the edges. Text is clean. English and Chinese text. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Taiwanese reprint (pirate copy). A translation with notes and commentary for the study and appreciation of the Chinese poems. xxxvii, 301pp. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection -.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Condition: Sehr gut. Seventh Printing. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. The rare dustjacket slightly sunned and a bit frayed but now in protective Mylar. The book in unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Very rare in this condition. This book is the result of a ten-years' collaboration between a Chinese scholar and a distinguished American poet. It consists of three hundred poems of the T'ang Dynasty, the golden age of Chinese poetry, done into English. The original collection was made by an anonymous Chinese editor in the eighteenth century and was modelled, in the number of poems chosen (311), on the Confucian Book of Poetry. It remains today the best short anthology of T'ang poems and in the original is the most popular book of poems ever published in China. (Publisher's Info).…

4to. pp. 16, [2]. wrs. (small price sticker on front wr.). Algord Music Limited, Toronto, rubberstamp on title).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Early Fifth Printing in the scarce dust jacket, January, 1939. Decorative tan cloth stamped in maroon with mountain vignette and titles on front cover, maroon titled spine, maroon top edge, fore edge untrimmed. Two color title page. A fine unmarked copy in a very good to near fine price intact dust jacket with protective archival cover. Clean tight text, no name, bookplate, or other markings. This early classic anthology introduced many to Chinese / Zen poetry. Includes poems by Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu-Yi, et al. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Albert A. Knopf New York 1929. First and second printings before publication. Publication October 1929. A Chinese Anthology Being Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty. Pictorial front board.Binding tight.Pictorial frontispiece.Boards are grubby with some red marking to front.Spine browned.Light bumping to spine and corners.Some pencil marking.Eight small ink numbers inscribed over two pages.Owners inscription to endpaper. Good. No jacket.…