8839
Selection of Books on Asian Themes
Sold
$30
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing May 30th, 2023
Category
Description
Comprising 10 volumes in total, including CHIN P'ING MEI: THE ADVENTUROUS HISTORY OF HSI MEN AND HIS SIX WIVES (NY: Putnam's, 1940) 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, slipcase (broken); Sybille Noel, THE MAGIC BIRD OF CHOMO-LUNG-MA: Tales of Mount Everest, the Turquoise Peak, illus. by A. Avinoff (Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1931) Signed by the artist on flyleaf, 8vo, cloth, partial d.j.; and Geoffrey Gorer, BALI AND ANGKOR; OR, LOOKING AT LIFE AND DEATH (Boston: Little, Brown, 1936) 8vo, cloth, d.j.
Provenance
From the private library of Anton Vishio, Sr., scholar and mentor, who for 45 years taught Latin and Classical Greek at The Gilman School in Baltimore.
