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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: 261pp. Folio in boards over cloth spine with green morocco spine label. B&W and color plates. Light soiling and wear to boards, corners exposed, rubbing and irregular fading to spine label; spine lightly shaken; interior clean and lightly toned. Good+
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xiii, (1), 261pp., 43 plates (18 color). Folio. Boards, 1/4 cloth (spine torn).
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oversize. Rubbing and wear to binding edges. Bookplate residue on front endpaper, small blind-stamp on title page. 'With Forty-Three Plates (Eighteen in Colours) and Copious Indexes of Titles and Authors.' Worn binding.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.36 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, fine condition. Block printing & book illustration in Japan from the earliest period to the twentieth century; With forty-three plates (eighteen in colours) and copious indexes of titles and artists Special Collection by Louise Norton Brown. Published by George Routledge & Sons; E.P. Dutton in 1924. Hardcover. First edition of the history of printing and book illustration in Japan, illustrated with colour and monochrome plates. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PICK UP IN SHERMAN OAKS OKAY First edition good condition hard cover, slight bowing, , rear hinge cracked, no dust jacket gently read clean pages, previous owner name, tan spine , over green cloth nice leather spine label , minimal wear to edges , all plates collated
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good + green quarto boards backed in tan cloth with gilt-lettered green spine label. Top corners lightly bumped. Spine label slightly darkened at lower edge. Pagination edges modestly toned with light toning at endpapers. Else bright, snug & unmarked. In a Very Good plain green dust wrapper lettered front & spine. Brodarted jacket uniformly tanned with darkened sunning along spine, shallow loss at spine ends & two internal chips at spine. Rare in jacket. A rather handsome copy of this grand tome posted at default media rate; priority & international to be quoted.
Seller: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. Original quarter cream cloth and green boards, with gilt stamped spine lettering (over brown label). 261 pages, with Glossary, Bibliography, and Indices of Titles and Artists. With forty-three plates (eighteen in color with tissue guards). Wear to spine ends and corners, Scattered foxing throughout, especially to preliminary and end pages. Hand-stamp name (small) at bottom of Front FEP. Bookseller sticker [Thomas Nickerson Books, Honolulu] at bottom of inside rear cover. No marks to text. Hinges solid. Lacking the dust-jacket. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio. xiii, [1], 261, [1] pp. plus 43 full page plates (of which 18 are in color). Publisher's quarter linen over blue/green boards, gilt morocco spine lettering label. In the original printed dust jacket (two large chips from spine and some edge wear). An exceedingly clean copy in the original jacket.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xiii, 261 pp. With forty-three plates (eighteen in colours), and copious indexes of titles and artists. Folio, original cloth-backed boards. Hinges cracked (but still sound); quite rubbed at edges and corners; joints starting; a good copy, internally clean.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$301.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This lovely first edition volume explores the history of art in Japan, highlighted throughout with colour and monochrome plates. The first edition of this work.An academic work exploring the history and development of art in Japan, in particular looking into block printing and book illustration from their beginnings up to the twentieth century.Looking at early printing and engraving in Japan, illustrated books of the seventeenth century, Moronobu, Itcho, Korin, and their followers, Osaka as an art and publishing centre, the impressionists, the late Ukiyo-Ye illustrators, and more.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventeen colour plates, and twenty-five monochrome plates.Collated, complete.By Louise Norton Brown, who sadly died before this work was published. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, rebacked. Externally, generally smart, boards and spine are a little rubbed. Light bumping to the extremities. Spine label is rubbed with a couple of spines. Ink to the tail of the spine. Minor marks to the boards and spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Stamp to the title page and dedication leaf. Plates 7 and 20 are detached but present. Plates 15 and 29 are detaching. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A classic history, identifying major artists and printmakers in the history of Japanese illustration. Folio. . xiii, [xiv] 261 pp. Plates. Glossary, bibliography and index. Appendix of ÒOld-Book Shops in Japan.Ó Tan cloth over green paper boards, gilt green morocco spine label. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some chips, tears, and browning. First edition.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarter cloth over green paper boards, in Good condition with slight wear to corners and very slight sun fading to spine. With 43 plates (18 in color) and copious indexes of titles and artists. 261 pages. Front hinge is starting to weaken
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$432.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in the publisher's original qharter cloth and green paper covered boards, green spine label stamped in gilt. Some minor soiling and shelf wear, particularly at the head & heel, and the fore edge corners are bumped. With forty-three plates (eighteen in color) and copius indexes of titles and artists.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Folio, xiii, [1], 1, 261, [1]; 43 plates, 18 in color; green paper covered boards backed in tan cloth, green morocco label on spine; light foxing to top edge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the inner spine where it makes contact with the label. Louise Norton Brown was a passionate and sophisticated collector of Japanese books. Her survey of Japanese book history remains a useful and well researched reference, and includes a bibliography and index.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Louise Norton Brown.. Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan.. George Routledge,, 1924.
Price: US$439.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First ed. Folio. xiii, 261pp. 43 plates, 18 in color, and copious indexes of titles and artist. Original half cloth, slightly worn, and slightly spotted on end-papers. Dust Jacket.
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$610.50 + shipping
Description: folio. pp. xiii, 261. title in red & black. 43 plates (18 in colour). original quarter cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (bds. stained, spine label & board edges worn). First Edition. A major reference work on the subject, with glossary, bibliography, and indexes for artists and book titles.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada