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Morris, Henry. Japonica, The Study and Appreciation of the Art of Japanese Paper. Bird & Bull Press, Pennsylvania, 1981.

Price: US$168.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Blue spine is slightly faded, leather label is light blue and corners are not bumped. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. This is number 123 of 250 copies.

Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.

Henry Morris. [SPECIAL PRESS] JAPONICA. THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART OF JAPANESE PAPER. [WITH PROESPECTUS]. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa, 1981.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: Large 8vo.; quarter-bound in black oasis leather and tips, with Japanese block-printed Kyo Katazomegani paper-covered boards; edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies signed by Henry Morris, of which this is #158; the spine lightly faded, with a green morocco label pasted down; 87 pages with drawing and colophon at the rear; 42-[63] kimono pattern swatches; 66-86 are Japanese Screen Papers; with a 12 page facsimile reprint of "The Manufacture of Japanese Paper by Henry S. Munro, New York: Reprinted from American Chemise, 1876".~~Bird & Bull had acquired from Dard Hunter a collection of old sample books with hundreds of swatches of Japanese papers and put them to good use in this production. (Heaney, Thirty Years of Bird & Bull, A32).

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Morris, Henry. JAPONICA. The Study and Appreciation of the Art of Japanese Paper. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1981.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Quarter-bound by Gary Parrot in Oasis leather/fine. One of 250 copies, this being #35. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.

Henry Morris. Japonica: The Study and Appreciation of the Art of Japanese Paper. Bird & Bull Press, 1981.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition hardback book beautifully illustrated with samples of Japanese Paper. Limited to 250 copies (#189). Boards show light rubbing/scuffing. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-TS-R) rareviewbooks

Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.

Morris, Henry.. Japonica. The study and appreciation of the art of Japanese Paper by Henry Morris.. North Hills, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1981.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Number 183 of 250 copies. Printed on Frankfurt paper, with text in Bembo types by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., and binding by Gray Parrot. 6 1/4 in. x 9 1/4 in., half-title; title-page with design in violet ink; quotation page; contents; 87 pp., drawing + limitation page; pp. 42-[63] are the Kimono Pattern swatches (33 samples), these are colored papers, many with floral or geometric patterns; between pp. 66-86 are the Japanese Screen Papers (18, 5 3/4 in. x 9 in. leaves; many are textured papers with metallic flecks, or plant materials in the paper samples). Drawing after p. 87; and facsimile reprint of: "The Manufacture of Japanese Paper by Henry S. Munroe, New York: Reprinted from American Chemist, 1876." 12 pp. Dark blue leather spine and green leather title label mounted on the spine; patterned paper over boards. Contents: The literature of Japanese papermaking; Dard Hunter's Chiyogami & Kimono Pattern collection; Japanese Screen papers; Western accounts of Japanese papermaking. Loosely inserted is the prospectus.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.