The Sacred Oasis. Caves of the Thousand Buddhas - Tun Huang - with a preface by Pearl Buck

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. Hardcover. First American edition: xix, 114p., illustrated with a number of b&w interiors of caves and other sites, one colorphoto as frontispiece and a line map bound in at back. Hardbound in openweave 9.5x6 inch black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is touched with sun-faded spots where dust jacket wasn't, and said dust jacket is severely edgeworn and dirty. All in all, a good (good-only) copy. (Inventory #: 297255)