Buy this book on-line Yu, Charles (pseudonym of William Targ) : Poems of a Chinese StudentThe Black Archer Press, Chicago, IL, 1941
Limited edition. One of 250 copies printed. Inscription by the book designer in red ink on the front free endpaper: "To Anne Young, from Norman W. Forgue, Elaine Lundquist." Original publisher's orange cloth binding with yellow title label on front cover. 5 /12" x 8." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Colophon in the front: "Limited Edition of Two Hundred Fifty Copies Issued. Most of the poems contained in this volume first appeared in Front Views and Profiles in the Chicago Tribune." Colophon in the back: "Designed by Norman W. Forgue for the Black Archer Press. Printed from Garamond and Civilite types on Linweave Text paper by the Norman Press, Chicago." The author of Poems of a Chinese Student is actually William Targ. William Targ (1907-1999) was a Chicago book editor and bibliophile of Russian Jewish descent. According to his son Russell, Targ was also a scholar of Asian cultures and a collector of Japanese artwork. The authorship of this book was confirmed in Targ's autobiography, Indecent Pleasures, in which he relays a story about how a women's club in Chicago asked that Charles Yu read his poems for them in person, but when "Charles Yu" came, the women remarked how he did not look Chinese. Information about this book is cited from an article, "Don Thompson -- Of Jade Flowers and Miss Yu," on www2[dot]bakersfieldcollege[dot]edu. The following poems are in this book: "Study," "In America," "Ecstacy," "Poison Pen," "Nostalgia," "Longing," "Art," "Haircut," "Campus Life," "White Stones," "Miss Jones and Jade Flower," "Dreams and the Present," "Eighth Wonder," "White Night in Chicago," "Use and Abuse," "Torch Singer," "The Hosiery Question," "Art Exhibit," "Marriage Scene," "Touche," "Epicurean Lark," "A Little Learning," and "Book Learning.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Yu, Charles (pseudonym of William Targ) : Poems of a Chinese Student. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres illustrées, livres rares, first editions and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |