The Temple and Other Poems by Waley, Arthur (Translator) - 1923

Knopf, 1923. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Wear to paper over boards at corners and bottom of boards. Bookplate. Fading to boards. .

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair in original yellow cloth boards, with age-related tanning on the spine, and chipping to the bottom and top-most portions of the spine.. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 150 pp. Stated first printing. A previous owner's name appears on the front free endpaper. There is also blue pencil underlining limited to the first 16 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. With an Introductory Essay on Early Chinese Poetry, and an Appendix on the Development of Different Metrical Poems. No date indicated. Text is clean, with several unopened pages. A couple newspaper clippings laid in text. Cover edges rubbed, spine slightly darkened, top edge a little faded. 151 pages. ; 5 1/4 x 7 1/2

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. The first American edition, using UK sheets with title page being a cancel. Cloth backed paper covered boards, title and date "1923" printed in blue onto spine, Chinese characters stamped in gilt onto bottom corner of upper board, 12mo (7-1/2 inches [19 cm] tall), pp. [1]-150, [151], [152 - blank], appendices, index, printed on heavy watermarked paper. Volume with fading to covers and spine, paper edges rubbed through in places, endpapers toned, scattered foxing throughout, original $2 price in pencil to upper corner of ffep, cover gilt still bright. With Knopf's four page Fall, 1923 catalogue loosely laid in, confirming the "$2.00" issue price. The first four chapters offer an in-depth discussion of traditional Chinese poetry etc., before starting into 16 important Chinese poems.

Allen & Unwin, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 'With an introductory essay on early Chinese poetry, and an appendix on the development of different metrical forms'. Tight and sound copy. Publisher's hardcover binding with paper spine label. Some staining to endpapers, binding lightly rubbed/dust soiled, label rubbed and darkening. No inscriptions. 151 pages, index. Approx. size 8" by 5.5". Allen & Unwin, London 1923 - 12mo. 151 pp. Cloth binding, printed label, scattered foxing, else good copy. (85514). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26339. .

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd,, 1923. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. In this, one of his early works, Waley engages with Bai Juyi's "strange power of alchemizing flatness into beauty" (p. 61), presenting Bai's "The Temple" alongside works by Wang Yanshou, Ouyang Xiu, and other literary greats. Provenance: with the distinctive bookplate of Anthony Hobson (1921-2014) on the front pastedown. Hobson was a scholar, esteemed bibliophile, and expert on Renaissance bindings. He served as president of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie between 1985 and 1999. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, paper spine label lettered in dark blue, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Spine lightly toned, small loss to spine label, contents clean: a near-fine copy. Johns A10.