Steles

Segalen, Victor

First published in 1912 and inspired by the inscriptions that the author had seen on stones along the side of the road in China. Introductory text and explanation of the 1914 edition, both by the author (8pp.); the steles organised by the direction that they are facing in the landscape or their location; translations by Michael Taylor; calligraphy by Walasse Ting; an austere Lapis Press production bound in boards covered with a lithograph by Sam Francis; 150 copies signed by Michael Taylor and Sam Francis.

Publisher: Lapis Press. First American edition with these translations 1987
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Santa Monica and San Francisco
Original illustrated boards. Fine in printed transparent dustwrapper.


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