First US edition with dated title page. Cloth and decorative boards, paper spine label. Very good copy, slight spotting to endpapers, pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper of missionary and author Jean Kenyon Mackenzie. Laid in is a tearsheet, a single page numbered pp. 7-8, "Lady Murasaki" by Amy Lowell. This volume contains a preface, a list of principal characters, a summary of volume one and an introduction by Arthur Waley in three parts, namely, Fiction in Japan Previous to the Tale of Genji, The Art of Murasaki, and Note on the Text.

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The Sacred Tree. Being the second part of The Tale of Genji.

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Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Catalogue XXXXXVII (LVII)

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