KWAN MOONABAA
A Chinese Mirror: Poems and Plays . . . Introduction by Manly Hall
193226989Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press 1932 1932. First American edition. Mattila B77; not in BAL under Sterling. Binding a little darkened worn and creased in the upper corner; a good sound copy. 8vo original tan cloth spine pale green paper boards Chinese characters and western lettering in red. Frontis portrait. 24 poems and two short plays by Moon Kwan a native of China who attended USC in Los Angeles and UC Berkeley. Along the way he befriended Witter Bynner to whom one of the poems is addressed and George Sterling who wrote the introduction to the plays among other members of the literati and he worked as a technical advisor to D. W. Griffith on his film Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl. Kwan returned to Hong Kong in the 1930s where he worked in the film industry. This Los Angeles edition is one of two that appeared in 1932 or slightly later; the other with six additional poems was published in Hong Kong and is not dated. <br/><br/> Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press, 1932 unknown books
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