The Persistence of Poetry

by Witter Bynner

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1929. Slim 4to, 6 , 29pp. Title illustration, chapter head piece. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase broken , backstrip faded. § Limited to 325 copies signed by Bynner. 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

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