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Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: pink beveled boards w/ gilt stamped printing, illustration; gilt illustrated & printed spine. 451 pgs w/ bw illustrations; 16 color plates, including frontispiece. all edges gilt. Boards rattled. Textblock has numerous deep cracks and splits; threads and glue variously holding/intact. Textblock is rattled and fragile. Light toning to page edges w/ instances of light spotted foxing, though opening pages have more wide-spread and condensed instances. Remains a rebinding/reading copy; a practical research copy. Previous bookstore pencil and small sticker notations/pricing to front pastedown and enpapers. Fair+ (boards sunned; scuffed, scratched w/ scoring to back; rubbed edge-wear. spine sunned; scratched w/ light staining; ends chipped, torn & rubbed; approx 3inch diagonal portion of upper spine missing w/ backing-binding visible; tear to edge w/ old transparent tape repair. corners rubbed, lower back harshly rubbed to board. areas of tearing to gutters/hinges)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Small Folio. xliii (i), 453 (2)pp. Original gilt-illustrated orange cloth and gilt lettering and ruling on cover and spine; beveled edges and protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Color frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black with vignette. A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore, myth, religious symbolism. Illustrated in the arts of Japan by Henry L. Joly. "With upwards of 700 illustrations, including sixteen full-page reproductions in color." List of color plates and legend of Japanese art at front. Bibliography, legend of Japanese art and Japanese index art rear. Text in English with Japanese index. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips mostly at spine and rubbed. Dealer sticker on inside front cover. Half-title browned. Very lightly starting in a few places due to heftiness of volume.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.52 + shipping
Description: 453 pp.; 93 b/w plates with upwards of 700 illustrations, 16 colour plates. London: John Lane The Bodley Head/New York, John Lane Company, 1908. Hbk. First edition. With an ex libris pasted in on inside front cover. The book is in excellent condition. KEYWORDS: 024 Japan - General & Ainu 025 Japan - Netsuke - Inro - Lacquer etc. 026 Japan - Prints/Surimono/Paintings/Calligraphy etc. 029 Japan - Samurai/Swords 030 Japan - Ceramics/Porcelain
Seller: Ethnographic Art Books/De Verre Volken, Leiden, ZH, Netherlands