Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fourth printing 1959. Spine and cloth boards with light fade. Large liquid stain to a portion of front and rear boards. Creasing to endpapers, text and illustrations in VG condition, toning stripe to first and last pages, a few pages with corner wear. Page 21 bottom corner irregular cut with excess but is folded over to fit within text block edge. Price clipped DJ, Fair, with toning, light soil, edge wear, small tearing, liquid staining more noticeable to the underside than outside. Slipcase, Poor, heavy staining, discoloration, foxing, liquid staining, loss of paper to cardboard, creasing, tearing, puncture. Bottom panel of slipcase with staple detachment. Images can be provided upon request for your satisfaction. Shelf 10f.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is very well cared for, clean and strong. Dust jacket has some chipping and a couple of closed tears, repaired carefully by previous owner. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: A Different Chapter, Cairo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some sun-fading to covers and spine; some dirt to textblock. Solid boards and binding, and clean and unmarked interior. Moderate rubbing to jacket coves; moderate-to-heavy wear to edges and a ~1" tear to top edge -- overall attractive, now in protective mylar.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: The first printing, 287 pages, 257 illustrations in color and b&w, with notes on the prints by Richard Lane. This book is divided into 4 sections: Early Prints; Full-Color Prints; Landscape and Figure Prints, and Moderns. FINE- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. 286 pp. Very good with marginal tearing to dust jacket and rubbing to printed cardboard slipcase. Hard covers with red and purple cloth covered boards and printed dust jacket. Includes color plates. Fourth printing. From the Collection of Steve Reoutt (1938-2008). A longtime California College of the Arts Graphic Design faculty member (41 years to be exact) and professor emeritus, Reoutt also was a book illustrator, curator, painter, and genuinely appreciated and loved member of the CCA community. He was born in 1938 in Shanghai to Russian parents. He came to the United States when he was just 12 years old. He went on to cofound the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, including serving a nine-year board position as design historian. In 2001 Reoutt received the AIGA Fellowship award for ?personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within our design community." He passed away May 14, 2008.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Michener, James A.. The Hokusai Sketch-Books. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1959 1st edition, 4th printing. Dust jacket with spine shield, one page is folded but it was included that way. Has inserts about the book. Slight tear on dust jacket spine.
Seller: Friends of SMPL Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
James A Michener. The Hokusai Sketch-Books : Selections from Manga. Charles E Tuttle, 1959.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Charles E Tuttle. 1948, 1st edition/4th printing stated. 4to hard cover in original DJ. Condition is absolutlely Fine in a Very Good+ DJ. Glossy DJ shows small closed tear to top of spine that has been tape repaired on verso, o/w glossy and Like New. Boards, edges, corners and spine are all perfect. Interior is white, crisp and unmarked. Comes in original cardboard slip case which is Like New. An exceptionally well cared for example . Ships promptly in a custom box w/tracking number. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: High Enterprises, Olympia, WA, U.S.A.
Michener, James A.. The Hokusai sketch-books. Charles E. Tuttle, 1959.
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Description: 265×170 286 pág
Seller: LIBRERÍA LAS HOJAS, Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Description: 286 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with self portrait of Hokusai as an old man. Fully illustrated with 187 amazing full page plates and hundreds of text decorations. First 30 or so pages are lightly water stained at lower edges, otherwise pages good condition and clean. Some unopened pages. Black and peach colored cloth with distinctive vertical white label and japanese title on upper cover. Gilt title on spine. Upper board and tail of spine has water stain at lower edge. Cream colored dust jacket with black and white drawings on upper cover and red and black titles. Edges lighlty worn. Head of spine worn. VG/GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, Fourth printing of a Near Fine (as in VG+), '[m]anufactured in Japan', 4to hardcover in a G+ to VG- dust jacket and a VG slipcase. Pinkish end papers; 286 folded-leaf pages featuring 187 full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations. This contents are like new. Blue and pale orange cloth with gilt spine lettering and a paper title label on the upper board. These covers are fine with the exception of a bit of fading at the head of the spine. The dust jacket designed by M. Kuwata, has a front flap clipped to but not beyond the original retail price of $10.00 in the U.S. One-half inch tears along the front and rear spine edges at the head with related creases. The dust jacket is otherwise fine. The cardboard slipcase with a yellow and brown label and a small 'Printed in Japan' red stamp is at least VG. No ex-library markings! **Extra charges will be required to cover postage costs on a order requesting expedited and/or international shipping because of the size and the weight of this distinctive book.
Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third printing. Quarto. Page and cloth edges lightly dampstained, slight sunning at the crown, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with a small nick and tear at the crown, lacking the slipcase. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James A. Michener. The Hokusai Sketch-Books Selections from the Manga. Charles E. Tuttle, USA, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle DATE/EDITION: Stated copyright in Japan 1958, First Edition 1958, third printing 1959. BINDING: Hardbound in salmon colored cloth on the top quarter and faint black on the rest of the covers and spine with a paste down label with Japanese printing on the front cover and the title in English in gold lettering on the spine, 286 pages, pages are uncut with illustrations and text on only one side and the reverse of each page blank. DUST JACKET: Corner clipped but still states price of 10.00 in the U.S. Light wrinkle at the spine ends with a very tiny nick at the top edge. Jacket is in a protective cover and is overall very good, very clean and bright. Also in a slipcase with a wraparound label. Slight edge wear but clean and intact and label is very good. BOOK CONDITION: A very tiny line of sunning at the bottom spine edge otherwise the book is near fine with sharp corners and bright lettering, very clean covers and interior and tight binding. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated throughout with sketches by Katsushika Hokusai.
Seller: RT Books, Wexford, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: 286 pages including index. Dust Jacket is clean and price clipped. In Slipcase with wraparound label. Slipcase has tiny wear at edges. Book includes two inserts printed from actual woodblocks. 187 full page two-color plates and hundreds of text illustrations. Printed Japanese style, on double folded paper. In publisher's cardboard slipcase. Michener edited the book, wrote a lengthy essay on Hokusai--often called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Orient--and informative captions for every plate. New insights into the quality of Hokusai's art and the Manga: "Hokusai's Sketches from Life"--a look at Japanese history, customs, superstitions, psychology, life, pleasures, botany, zoology, architecture, agriculture, astronomy--the book is an encyclopedia of Japan! Clean
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.