Missuss (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Vg/. Brown boards w/ dogs on front/back. Black spine w/ gilt lettering. Edges/corners show some rubbing/wear. Previous owner's name ffep. Interior clean and tight, 105 pgs. 14 writing-brush sketches by Lucille Douglass.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lucille Douglass (illustrator). 1st Edition. Florence Ayscough was a poet, translator, Sinologist, avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women's rights in China. Ayscough's modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies of the lives Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her collections of Chinese ceramics and objets now form an important part of several American museum's Asian art collections. By the time of her death Florence Ayscough has left a legacy of collection and scholarship unrivalled by any other foreign woman in China before or since. Lucille Douglass' beautiful wood block illustrations are absolutely exquisite. Text is lean, tight and unmarked. Decorative paper-covered boards with a pattern of drawings of little dogs are bumped at extremities.