Hardcover. New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, inc, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Gives an interesting insight, through three essays, of the influence Whistler' art, and the influence of the Eastern ideal of the feminine image, had on American painters. Black leatherette, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Pink pictorial dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Tight binding and crisp, clean pages.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Z.P. Maruya & Co., 1st Revised, 1902, Book: Good, 190 pages, red cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. Front hinges cracked with some light paper loss at gutter. Otherwise, clean internally. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1902 PRINTING, NOT A MODERN PRINT-ON-DEMAND REPRINT.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 91 pages. Hardcover with stamps to rust & brown cloth covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. Musty smell. The volume is photo illustrated in black & white, followed by 32 tipped-in color plates. Wonderful illustrations of puppet masterpieces. Dust jacket has chipping & tears to top inch of spine & other small tears to edges, price-clipped. Clean pages throughout, protected with cardboard slipcase.
Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Edited by Richard von Doenhoff. Previous bookseller's bookplate on front flyleaf. Dust jacket soiled.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Small tape repaired tear on back of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. St Louis City Art Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Softcover. Shows minor normal wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean and tight copy otherwise. Illustrated throughout.
Hardcover. Atlanta, Ga., 1st pr, September 25, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Sendai, Japan, Tohoku Gakuin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white photos and one color photo. A couple of closed tears on front dust jacket cover and minor edge wear on dust jacket covers, in general. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
NY, New Directions, 1st, 1962, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Designed and Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. Covers with edgewear, chipping soil and rubbing. Spine detached, but present.
New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w maps. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, black cloth covers with red and gilt design on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A document of the history and aesthetics of the Japanese realist tradition. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Fading to upper top edge of dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Full color and black-and-white photos throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. W. E. Scull, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages, profusely illustrated with half-tone engravings and artists' drawings throughout, illustrated cover on red cloth board. previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, light corner and edge wear, minor foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean and tight.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Scarce 1st hardcover. Light sunning to dust jacket spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a very neat, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, Reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1st, 1975-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Text in English and Japanese. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight fraying and tearing to upper edge of spine.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Sepia illustrations by author throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on blue on spine and gilt title on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, has some tanning from age, covered in protective plastic. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.
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