Plopper, Clifford H.

CHINESE RELIGION SEEN THROUGH THE PROVERB

Shanghai: Shanghai Modern Printing House, 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. Original black moired cloth with gilt title and decoration, octavo (6 x 9 inches), xi, 381 pp. 27 full-page plates (mostly from photographs), several illustrations in the text. Light wear to top of spine, else fine in moderately chipped dustjacket. Brittle jacket mended with Scotch removable tape on underside / fair. Item #15396

Scholarly edition of Chinese proverbs in Chinese with English translation and extensive notes, organized by theme. Originally published in 1924. Pages iii & iv contain prefaces to the first edition (1924) and this 1935 second edition. Quite scarce in jacket.

Price: $125.00