Published by Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 4to blue cloth VG/nodj; vii+368pp, Appendix, bibliography, Index of Proper Names. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series volxi; "While related to the Confucian classic 'The Book of Songs' it is a heterogeneous collection of ethical, ritual, and anecdotal material not easily characterized". ASSOCIATION=signed "Larry Thompson" with his red stamped chinchar chop to titlepg; Laurence Graham Thompson was a prof of East Asian Languages at Univ So CA in late 1900s; he was a famous sinologist known best for his introductory textbooks to Chinese religions, eg. Chinese Religion: An introduction (1969 plus many rev eds) and a series of extensive bibliographies on Chinese Religion in Western Languages (1970, 1980, 1990, 2000). This book also bears the chop of Gary Seaman to fep, his collaborator and editor, also a prof at USC.