Fenollosa : The Chinese Written Character As A Medium for Poetry.

San Francisco, CA City Lights Books, 1960. Paperback First Edition Thus (1960); Second Printing (1964). First published in 1936. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: just a touch of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; a couple of very faint stress creases near the upper corner of the front panel, near the hinge; faint soiling to the white background field of the rear panel of the wrapper covers; former owner's gift inscription at the upper title page; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive flaws. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.25 x 5 x 0.2 inches). 45 pages. Edited by Ezra Pound. Language : English. Weight: 2.3 ounces. First Edition Thus (1960); Second Printing (1964). First published in 1936. Trade Paperback. Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853 – 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art. After his death in London in 1908, Fenollosa's unpublished notes on Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh drama were confided by his widow to noted poet Ezra Pound who, with William Butler Yeats, used them to solidify the growing interest in Far Eastern literature among modernist writers. Pound subsequently finished Fenollosa's work with the aid of Arthur Waley, the noted British sinologist.