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Japan: The Pocket Guide 1955
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Revised April 1955. [2], 147 p., [24] p. of black-and-white photographs: maps; 19 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's catalog on front dust jacket flap. Commercial advertisements on front endpapers and back fixed endpaper. Gift inscription on half title page, dated 1957, to Dave Corbin and Mary Corbin from Lucille Wilhelm and Jim Wilhelm. Address labels for "Mrs. David C. Corbin," Akron, Ohio, on front free endpaper and half title. The recipients were Mary and David Corbin, founders of the Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation of Akron, Ohio. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front free endpaper scraped; otherwise, clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: lightly soiled; spine is rubbed and scraped, with some loss; corners are rubbed; back flap is price-clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006685
- Title
- Japan: The Pocket Guide 1955
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Japan Travel Bureau
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration; Africa, Asia, & Middle East;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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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...
- Fine
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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