WALEY, Arthur. A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1918. Square 8°. Half title. Original cloth-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “To W. H. Davies from the Translator. September 9, 1918”, with a clipped signature (“Yours sincerely, Arthur Waley”) laid down beneath. There are a number of corrections in Waley’s hand to the text.