The Photograph-album of the Great Earthquake and Fire of September 1, 1923. The most complete artistic production - with 40 excellent pictures of the earthquake and fire, comprising scenes in Tokyo and Yokohama.
by (JAPAN; KANTO EARTHQUAKE)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
N.P.: [NOT IDENTIFIED], [1925]. First edition. Octavo. [20] leaves with each leaf bearing two photographic illustrations of this great disaster. Captioned in English and Japanese and printed on versos only (Japanese read from back to front so their rectos). Publisher's string-tied orange wrappers bearing the title in Japanese and English and a blue photograph of a destroyed building. Old central crease. Spme mostly eroded but with no consequences on the book's integrity. Only two copies recorded by OCLC. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75574
- Title
- The Photograph-album of the Great Earthquake and Fire of September 1, 1923. The most complete artistic production - with 40 excellent pictures of the earthquake and fire, comprising scenes in Tokyo and Yokohama.
- Author
- (JAPAN; KANTO EARTHQUAKE)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- [NOT IDENTIFIED]
- Place of Publication
- N.P.
- Date Published
- [1925]
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2012
Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
Glossary
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...