Book. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover, dark gray cloth lettered in silver

Book. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover, dark gray cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's blue pictorial dust-jacket. 166 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing. A cross-cultural study of the reciprocal influences of American and Chinese literature from the publication of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, but concentrating on the first three decades of the twentieth century. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Book is like new, dust-jacket shows minor wear at spine tips but no tears or chips. Fine in a very good+ dust-jacket. A very scarce scholarly monograph.