De MORANT, George Soulie. The Passion of Yang Kwei-Fei: From Ancient Chinese Texts. New York: Covici Friede, 1928.

First Edition. Translated by H. Bedford-Jones. Epic Chinese love story between a young woman, Yang Kwei-fei and her imperial lover, Ming Huang, which was well known as fragments in plays, memoirs, and dramatic verse but not collected as an entirety. Tall Octavo with red decorative boards and gray half cloth binding, ochre endpapers, in beige dustjacket stamped orange. Very Good plus with Newspaper shadow to title page, in a Very Good dustjacket, centimeter chip to lower spine edge, few very short closed tears to edges, and dime sized light surface abrasion mid spine.

Price: $45.00