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Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Assumed first edition, not dated but circa 1903. Unpaginated, twelve Japanese style crepe paper folded sheets, string bound, 13.5cm x 19cm. Story rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn . Woodblock colour printing, illustrated throughout. In very good condition, covers somewhat rubbed and creased
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25. Chin Chin Kobakama. , 1903.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25. Chin Chin Kobakama. Lafcadio Hearn, translator.T. Hasegawa (Hasegawa TakejirÅ é è° å æ¦æ ¡é), publisher. Meiji 36 [1903]. 19.2 x 13.9cm crepe paper book, stab-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji. [10] cho, including introductory notes by the translator. Colophon in Japanese on the inside rear wrapper with the date Meiji 36 [1903] gives the Hasegawa publisher address as 17 Kami Negishi. [10] pages with woodcuts on the front and rear inside wrappers. Colorful and detailed woodblock prints and English text throughout. Chin-Chin Kobakama is a cautionary tale of a lazy young woman who is taunted every night for her sloth by angry fairies who live within her tatami mats. It is a classic Japanese folklore tale, which has similar iterations with the same moral and ending, such as the additional [1] cho tale at the end, about a girl who hides her plum-stones in the tatami mats. This tale is illustrated with charming woodcuts of ladies in colorful kimono that dance across the final page over onto the rear inside wrapper. Wear and toning to wrappers with dirt staining on front cover, inside front cover and spots on a few pages. Front cho is nearly split and rear cho is split and detaching with rips at binding. Stain along side and top edges of final page. The letter 'E' is handwritten on the rear inside wrapper. A wonderful early printing.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. CHIN CHIN KOBAKAMA [JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES NO 25]. T. Hasegawa, 1903.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: CHIN CHIN KOBAKAMA [JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES NO 25], T. Hasegawa, 1903, first edition, a near fine copy in full color wraps. Replete with full color illustrations on virtually every other page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22 pp. Octavo size. Crape paper book. A very good copy. Profusely illustrated. A light crease on back cover. See our pictures. (BAL 7939)
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.