FOUR CAUTIONARY TALES
Published by New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1948.
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since December 20, 1997
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 22.81
Quantity: 1 available
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First U.S. edition (from Great Britain sheets). Bookplate to the rear pastedown endpaper, a strip of tanning to the endsheets, tiny drip of stain to the fore-edge pages, else very good in yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration; in a very good dust jacket with a mildly tanned spine, tiny bits of chipping to the spine ends, and modest shelf wear. Jacket design by Derek Hill. Published in England by The Golden Cockerel Press in a small limitation, these four stories were originally published towards the end of the Ming Dynasty and according to Dr. Waley superior in every way to similar stories in the Decameron.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1734649670181
Bibliographic details
- Title
- FOUR CAUTIONARY TALES
- Author
- Translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-Hsieh; With a preface by Arthur Waley
- Publisher
- New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1948.
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA
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BOOKFELLOWS is owned and operated by Malcolm and Christine Bell, who have been Southern California purveyors of fine and rare books since 1975. We have relocated to Arizona as of 2023. Malcolm and Christine first did business under the name MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION BOOKS, highlighting Mystery, Detective, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror fiction. Now, as BOOKFELLOWS, Malcolm and Christine maintain their special interest in genre books, but also stock fine books in the areas of Modern Literature, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature, Fine and Performing Arts, Western Americana, Western Literature and scarce and rare books in all fields. BOOKFELLOWS is an on-line only bookseller. We welcome want lists and conduct book searches.…
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