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Geisha Girl
by Akiyama, Aisaburo
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Kyoto, Japan: N.p., 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 28 pages. Hardcover bound in decorative patterned cloth with ribbon ties along the spine. There is light wear to the binding. The cloth covers are delicate and very slightly frayed at the edges. Corners are bumped. Outer edges of the text block are toned and foxed. There is foxing to the end papers and some sporadic light brown spotting throughout the text. There is a fold out illustration between pages 10 and 11 which is heavily foxed, and the adjacent pages show moderate foxing. The text is otherwise clean and sound. Illustrated with black and white prints and photographs and one tipped-in color plate.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051434
- Title
- Geisha Girl
- Author
- Akiyama, Aisaburo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- N.p.
- Place of Publication
- Kyoto, Japan
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1926; Aisaburo Akiyama; Geisha; Geishas; Japan; Japanese Culture; Kyoto; Rare; Illustrated; Asia; Asian.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Asia;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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