Chinese love tales / translated from the original of George Souile [sic] de Morant ; with illustrations by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soulié de Morant, G. (Georges), 1878-1955, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator.

Three Sirens Press, publisher.

J.J. Little and Ives Company, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Chinese

English

French

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Translations into English.

Chinese literature.

China--Social life and customs--Fiction.

China.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Translations.

Private press books (Printing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Ribbon markers (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Stained edges (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 47) (Valenti Angelo 48))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 47) (Valenti Angelo 48))

Mossman, J. M. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 47))

Physical Description:

[8], 11-161, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

New York : Printed in the United States of America by J.J. Little and Ives Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Three Sirens Press, 1935.

Contents:

Eastern shame girl.

The wedding of Ya-nei.

A strange destiny.

The error of the embroidered slipper.

The counterfeit old woman.

The monastery of the esteemed-lotus.

A complicated marriage.

Notes:

"Previously published as 'Eastern shame girl,' this book was attacked--and acquitted--in the courts, with judicial recognition of its exceptional literary merit. The original source of the stories appearing in this collection of Chinese love tales is the classic literature of China in the seventeenth century."--Preliminary page [5].

Binding: full blue cloth (a variant in full green cloth); title and small illustration of a naked female figure stamped in gold on left board; title, author's surname, and publisher's name along with decorations stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed); black tops; green silk marker; housed in green slip case with paper title label.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Valenti Angelo 47 & 48) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 47) has dated 20th-century autograph ("J. M. Mossman. October - 1936") on front pastedown.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 47): full blue cloth binding; slip case retained.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Valenti Angelo 48): full green cloth binding; slip case retained.

OCLC:

1492404