New York: Random House, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black 1/2 cloth, marbled paper covered boards, lettered in gilt and white. Slight exposure to bottom front cover corner, text block edges a bit tanned and with mild spotting along bottom text block edge. Firm, square binding. Gift inscription dated 1954 inked on front flyleaf, interior otherwise unmarked. Both flyleaves tanned. xii,404 pp., illus. w/ 63 plates. Color illus. dust jacket shows price-clipped front flap, spine panel sunned to a light brown with minor rubbing to extrems, now in mylar. Nicely preserved copy with relatively minor faults. Accompanied by a sheaf of several dozen clippings compiled by a former owner relating to Japanese prints and Edo..

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Bookseller: Saucony Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 053200
Title: The Floating World: The Story of Japanese Prints
Author: Michener, James A
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: VG+
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1954
Bookseller catalogs: Art: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture; Pennsylvania: Bucks County; Asia, India, Africa, Far East & Australia;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Saucony Book Shop

Terms of Sale: All orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Full refund on any misrepresented item(s) within 30 days of purchase date. Returned books must arrive in the same condition as they were sent. We use standard ABAA grading and terminology, and we will gladly respond to pre-purchase queries. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, check, money order, cash. Happy hunting!

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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...