Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain limited with bright gilt titles

with bright gilt titles

With 25 illustrated plates by Beerbohm of well know characters of the era including Frank Harris

New York: The Macmillan Company

hence the shape and size of the book

THE DESERTED VILLAGE

Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain limited with bright gilt titlesA Sequel to Chin P'ing Mei. Translated by Vladimir Kean from Franz Kuhn's German version of the original Chinese with an introduction by Franz Kuhn London: The Bodley Head, 1959. First Edition in English. Original red cloth with the slightly nicked dust jacket. 432 pages. An excellent copy in the unclipped dust jacket. Top edges of pages red. A Chinese novel from the end of the Ming Period, telling the story of wealthy businessman Hsi Men and his six