Translations From the Chinese
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1941).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Very good with a bookplate, light soiling to page edges and some rubbing to boards in a very good slipcase with a tape repair to the bottom edge. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Arthur Waley
birth name: Arthur Waley
born: 8/19/1889
died: 6/27/1966
Biography
Sinologist and translator from Chinese and Japanese whose outstanding renderings of Oriental classics into English had a profound effect on such modern poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. (The family name was changed from Schloss to Waley, his mother's maiden name, at the outset of World War II.) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore