DAVIS, A.R. (editor). Robert KOTEWALL and Norman L. SMITH (translators). The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse. London; Penguin Books. 1968

8vo.; original darkest blue boards lettered gilt to spine, in patterned dustwrapper; pp. 84; externally fine, internally fresh with marginal toning to stock, with a pictorial bookplate to front free endpaper and a neat name, presented in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper (11s 6d).

Fourth edition, first published in 1962, here in the unusual hardback Penguin Library cased binding with dust-jacket.  A collection of verses by over 120 male and female Chinese poets from the mid-second century to the early twentieth. With biographical information about each contributor.