A necklace of peach stones. A string of Chinese peach-stones rewritten, with appendix of Chinese lighter literature, illustrations and index

by William Arthur Cornaby

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, 1925. 8vo, pp. 8 , 401, 1 ; color frontispiece, illustrations in the text throughout; original pictorial tan cloth stamped in yellow and black; binding soiled, else very good, sound, and clean. Chinese tales, anecdotes and literary references strung together on a thread of narrative and picturing the village life of central China. W. Arthur Cornaby 1860–1921 was born in London and educated at the School

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