New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society, 1940. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xi, [1], 75 pages. Ex-Library with the usual library markings. Cover has worn edges. Bookseller sticker inside front cover. This is Volume 17 of the American Oriental Series. Includes Footnotes. Preface; The Biography of Lu Pu-wei, with translation of the text and discussion of the text; The Biography of Ching K'o, with translation of the text, discussion of the text, and an additional note; and The Biography of Meng T'ien, with translation of the text, and discussion of the text. Also contains Conclusion, A Note on Karlgren's Grammatical Method for the Analysis of Early Chinese Texts, and an Index. Some of the text is in Chinese. Ssu-ma Ch'ien and his father, Ssu-ma T'an, remain even today among the world's great historians, and their Shih Chi is one of the most valuable sources for our knowledge of ancient China. More