Johnson Kinchen (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 12 (weekend sale item)* two volumes, 428 pp., Hardcover, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.…

First edition, anthologizing 214 short songs and nursery rhymes collected in the streets of Beijing. Subjects range from animals, family, and food to love, proper social conduct (especially for women), and business. Each is printed in Chinese verse style and in English prose translation. The translator, Zhang Zezhi (publishing under an English assumed name), taught at Peking National Normal University and also translated Wordsworth and other British poetry. In his introduction, he acknowledges his debt to the earlier work on Beijing folklore undertaken by the Italian diplomat Baron Guido Vitale (1872-1918). Octavo. Text in parallel English and Chinese. With loosely inserted errata sheet. Original boards, green cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black in Chinese, front cover lettered in black in English. Contemporary presentation inscription from one Sun Bei(?) on front free endpaper. A little shaken, light rubbing at spine ends, faint tidemarks on boards and some leaves, brittleness of paper causing closed tears to front free endpaper and browning throughout: very good.…