"All Men are brothers", by Shui Hu Chuan.
Publisher: New York: The Heritage Press, 1948; Good/Fair. 4to - over 9 3/4 " - 12" tall. Orange boards with dark red spine. Custom handmade cloth dust jacket with oriental lettering and matching book mark. 32 Multi-color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Intro by Lin Yutang. Translated by Pearl Buck. 688 pp. With Good slipcase Slip Case rubbed, minor soil marks. sandglass pamphlet laid in. One of the masterpieces of Chinese literature in a one volume editiion. Note from the intro: "There are four or five masterpieces of Chinese fiction that have, in the course of the last four hundred years, become classics and weilded a tremendous influence over the thoughs and imagination of the chinese people. Of these, the first tow to come to come into being, The Three Kingdoms and All Men Are Brothers, were first written in the fourteenth century and by a strong and persistent tradition ascribed to the same authors, Shih Nai-an (about 1290-1365) and his disciple Lo Kuan0Chung (about 1330-1400). The Three Kingdoms is an historical romance, while All Men Are Brothers is a novel based on a cycle of stories about a certain band of beloved outlaws in the beginning of the twelfth century. This cycle and the novel carrying it were constantly improved upon and embelished until in the sixteenth century an edition appeared which bore the unmistakable stamp of a literary genius and, despite later editorial changes, received the mature treatment in which it has survived to the present day.." Book in if like new condition except for a tasteful signature of previous owner on fly page.
