Low City, High City: : Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: how the shogun's ancient capital became a great modern city. 1867 - 1923
by Seidensticker, Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG-: shelf wear/soiling to boards and spine, mild foxing/offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ G: edge wear, offset, not clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0394507304
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507309
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: shelf wear/soiling to boards and spine, mild foxing/offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ G: edge wear, offset, not clipped. 8vo 302pp. from front flap: "Certain conjunctions of time and place exert a special fascination--Paris in the twenties, turn-of-the-century Vienna, Weimar Berlin. Tokyo in the years between the Meiji Restoration and the Earthquake of 1923 is one of these. Until 1867 the city was called Edo--it was the shogun's capital, the biggest city in a country almost completely closed to the outside world for two and a half centuries. Now, helter-skelter, it became a modern metropolis brimming with Western fads, ideas, and technologies, exuberantly inventing and imitating even as it yearned for the past it was destroying. East and West met here as never before--or since. Edward Seidensticker tells the story of Tokoy's transformation with affection and panache, and a close personal feeling for the moods of the city he has lived in and studied for much of his life." #02466.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2401
- Title
- Low City, High City
- Author
- Seidensticker, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG-: shelf wear/soiling to boards and spine, mild foxing/offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: edge wear, offset, not clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394507304
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507309
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Tokyo, Japan, history, nonfiction, first edition
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