The oil vendor and the sing-song girl: a Chinese tale in five cantos ... Translated from the German

by Fritz Ruesch by Vincenz Hundhausen

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Peking: Poplar Island Press, 1938. 3 volumes, approx. 6 x 4 , title pages printed in red and black; original red cloth, stab-sewn, and contained in a matching red cloth folding case with bone clasps; spine of box sunned; all else very good and sound. Wikipedia tells us that Vincenz Maria Hermann Hundhausen 1878-1955 was a German national, who was also a German-language professor at Peking University and a translator of Chinese works into German. Hundhausen

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