Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Heroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock-printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent. Printed in the color woodblock method in use since the late eighteenth century, they provide a link between an ancient storytelling tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature.
Hardcover. Columbia University Press, 2nd printing, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Red cloth, gilt title on spine, no dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Dust jacket worn with small tears and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, black cloth. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Five pages with red underlining, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w frontispiece. Chipping, tears, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.
London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, b&w photos. Nice dust jacket. Printed In Great Britain stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Illustrated by Peter Harritos. Fully bound in black leather. The boards and spine are luxuriously decorated with gilt tooling. The title, the author's name, and the publisher's name are gilt-stamped to the spine and are separated by five raised leather bands. All edges gilt. The endpapers and pastedowns are beautifully executed in tan silk moire. A tan silk ribbon marker is laid-in. Limited Edition. Part of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature edition. Previous Owner's Library sticker on front end paper. Else a very clean, tight, and new looking copy.
New York, Harcourt Brace, unk, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Ex-lib sticker on inside of front cover, otherwise clean. Cover corners bumped.
Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A framework for understanding the theological and rhetorical underpinnings of early seventeenth-century poetry and prose. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, Revised Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor wear, fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 286 pages, with a foreword by John S. Diekhoff. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. Wormley, Five Owls Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, b&w illustrated plates. Small stain on dust jacket rear cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Gretna, La., Pelican Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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