The lost flute and other Chinese lyrics. Being a translation from the French

by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen by Franz Toussaint

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Brentano's, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12 , 177, 1 ; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Franz Toussaint 1879-1955 was a French writer and orientalist, a screenwriter, and translator of works from Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and Japanese see his French Wiki page for a substantial list . This is an English translation by Joerissen of his La flûte de jade; poésies chinoises 1920 , which he translated out of the Chinese of

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