Osaka, Japan: Hoikusha Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 8vo. In Near Fine heavy stock slipcase with wrap-around illustrations. vii (ii), 239 (6) pp, with 71 color plate and b&w illustrations. . Text in Japanese with species and genus names in latin as well as the shell's discoverer in parenthesis. Enlarged and Revised Edition, 1959. Only the faintest age-toning to text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with tipped-in color illustration on front board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, and decorative endpapers. 959.

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000113
Title: Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan
Author: Kira, Tetsuaki
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Edition: Revised Edition
Publisher: Hoikusha
Place of Publication: Osaka, Japan
Keywords: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ZOOLOGY CONCHOLOGY ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF SHELLS OF JAPAN
Bookseller catalogs: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY;
Size: 8vo

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...