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.
New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Slight chipping to top and bottom spine, front corners. Price clipped.
Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Softcover, 48 pages plus illustrated wraps. Twelve chromolithographed illustrations by Alice Sargent Johnson with a blank plate to be colored opposing, and detailed, careful instructions for step by step Japanese watercolor application, specific to each illustration, rather fine tips for painting. A promotional available with coupon found in each bag of Ceresota Bread Flour. The line illustrations are uncolored. The spine has been reinforce with a strip of clear tape. Small name stamp to cover, several pages, in margins not affecting plates. Otherwise clean.
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