(Grabhorn Press); Introduction By Harold P. Stern. (Prospectus for) FIGURE PRINTS OF OLD JAPAN. Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Single sheet printed in orange and black, folded once to form four 15 by 19 inch pages. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Order form and return envelope laid in. A near fine copy with a few very faint, small soft creases at top edge.

Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.

. Figure Prints of Old Japan. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited 400 copies. A pictorial pageant of actors & courtesans of the eighteenth century reproduced from the prints in the collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn with an introduction by Harold P. Stern. Many color plates. Green cloth backing with paper covers with a green design. Title in gilt pasted down on spine. Fading to spine. Very small occasional spots on covers. Folio sized.

Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.

(Grabhorn Press). Introduction by Harold P. Stern. FIGURE PRINTS OF OLD JAPAN. A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century Reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn. Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Folio, green cloth and pictorial boards; unpaginated. Introduction plus 92 pages letterpress description of the 52 numbered plates (48 in color), including 2 double spreads and 1 triptych. Spine somewhat faded.

Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.

STERN, Harold. FIGURE PRINTS OF OLD JAPAN. A PICTORIAL PAGEANT OF ACTORS & COURTESANS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY REPRODUCED FROM THE PRINTS IN THE COLLECTION OF MARJORIE & EDWIN GRABHORN. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 110 pp. Illustrated from 52 color plates. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies. Prospectus and newspaper article laid in. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Introduction by Harold P. Stern. Folio. Cloth-backed green and white decorated boards. Paper spine label. The first of the Grabhorn Japanese print series. Stunningly beautiful presswork. Prints reproduced by collotype at the Meriden Gravure Company, colored at the Grabhorn Press from handcut linoleum blocks. GB 611. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address,

Seller: Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.

Harold Stern. Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century. Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book Club of California, 1959. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition of only 400.52 colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Includes prints by Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and fresh copy. Orig. green cloth spine and pictorial boards with a custom-made rice-paer like dust jacket.

Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.

Stern, Harold. Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century. Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400. Fifty -two colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Major contributors in terms of prints depicted are Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and fresh copy. Owner inscription free endpaper. Orig. green cloth spine and pictorial boards. Fine in orig. glassine overwrapper

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

STERN, Harold P.. Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century Reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn. Book Club of California / Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Unpaginated. Measuring 10" x 15". Illustrated from 52 color plates. With an introduction by Harold P. Stern. Lightly bumped top corners, fine in a near fine age-toned handmade Japanese paper dustwrapper with a few short tears and chips on the rear panel. This edition is limited to four hundred copies. An exquisite collection of 18th Century, "Ukiyo-e", otherwise known as, "pictures of the floating world"

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Stern, Harold P. (Introduction). Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors and Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century Reproduced from the Collection of Marjorie and Edwin Grabhorn. The Book Club of California / Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Cloth-backed patterned paper over boards, gilt lettering in paper label on spine; with 52 full-page color plates. Limited edition of 400 copies. Book is without flaw, in very good dust jacket (chipped along spine and edges).

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

GRABHORN, Edwin. Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century. Grabhorn, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: Introduction by Harold D. Stern. Frontispiece + 52 plates, 50 in color. Folio, green cloth-backed decorative boards (spine slightly wrinkled and sun faded, internally fine). San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1959. Very good (+). One of 400 copies.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.