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Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First English-language edition, first printing. 289 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with lettering and lotus design stamped in white. Near Fine with slight slant to spine, light rubbing and soiling to covers, and bump to lower corner of front board. Offsetting to endpapers, previous owner name to front free endpaper. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear including chip to upper left of front panel; faint stain to rear panel. Rare. The first English-language edition of Shen Congwen's collection of short fiction, which includes his masterpiece novella "The Frontier City" or "Bian Cheng," now generally translated as "Border Town." Shen is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese novelists, though his fiction writing came to an end under the pressure of the Chinese Communist regime.