The Persistence of Poetry

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 325 copies, SIGNED by the author. [6], 29pp. Title illustration, chapter head piece. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, bookplate on inner cover, else a fine copy. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press with handset type on Arches hand-made paper. The latter part of this essay appeared as the author's introduction to The Jade Mountain, an anthology of 300 poems of the Tang dynasty, translated from the Chinese by Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. [Barr, Presses of Northern California: p.205]..