Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi -- A Fourteenth-Century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1974]. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Mustard cloth with black and red lettering and decorations, pictorial paper over boards slipcase. (Ca. 100pp). Numerous illustrations (some color, one foldout). Fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear only. Item #42341

A superb and tight first of this edition. Modern translation of this circa 8th-9th century poems about the life of the poet daughter of a well-known 3rd century AD scholar.

Price: $25.00

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