THE HOKUSAI SKETCH-BOOKS - SELECTIONS FORM THE MANGA
by Michener, James A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Rutland VT & Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. 286 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with self portrait of Hokusai as an old man. Fully illustrated with 187 amazing full page plates and hundreds of text decorations. First 30 or so pages are lightly water stained at lower edges, otherwise pages good condition and clean. Some unopened pages. Black and peach colored cloth with distinctive vertical white label and japanese title on upper cover. Gilt title on spine. Upper board and tail of spine has water stain at lower edge. Cream colored dust jacket with black and white drawings on upper cover and red and black titles. Edges lighlty worn. Head of spine worn. VG/GOOD+. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029990
- Title
- THE HOKUSAI SKETCH-BOOKS - SELECTIONS FORM THE MANGA
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Place of Publication
- Rutland VT & Tokyo Japan
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Japanese Art, japanese Drawings, Manga Art, Hokusai Art,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
J. Wyatt Books
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Ottawa, Ontario
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...