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NY & London: Harper. GOOD book. VG contents. Half cloth & paper boards.. 1911. 1st edition.. Hardcover. GOOD book, VG contents. Illus w 17 (of 20) tipped in color photogravures & marginal sketches on each page after Hokusai. . Four illus with small corner chips. Illus with no other flaws, all are exceptionally bright & attractive. Verso of illus facing p80 with childs pencilled drawing. No other marginalia. Leaves adjoining boards with light foxing. Cover edges & extrems with moderate shelf wear. .
Surface Japan Short Notes of a Swift Survey by Don C. Seitz - 1911
by Don C. Seitz
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Surface Japan Short Notes of a Swift Survey
by Don C. Seitz
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New York NY: Harper & Brothers, 1911. True first edition in gold titles, red dyed rice paper, cloth spine in poor condition, mostly missing, could use a new binding, front/back cover intact w/wear. Interior very nice and clean, tissue guard loose, no marks or writing, all plates are in fantastic condition. Numerous tipped in color photogravures and marginal sketches after Hokusai. Sietz (1862-1935), business manager of the New York World (1899-1923), presents his personal observations of the Japanese people and their history. Edges rubbed and cloth tips worn and chipped; with lovely color plates and marginal sketches (after Hokusai) to illustrate his travels. "I saw simply a smiling country, full of amiable. orderly people striving to gain not the mastery but the esteem of mankind.". Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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- Place of Publication New York NY
- Date Published 1911
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SURFACE JAPAN Short Notes of a Swift Survey
by Seitz, Don C 29e
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Surface Japan. Short Notes Of A Swift Survey
by Seitz, Don C
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- Hardcover
- first
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. A charmingly informal description of a trip to Japan by a wealthy American, illustrated with color photogravures of many aspects of Japanese life such as tea picking, the tea ceremony, musical performers, street vendors, Sumo wrestlers, family scenes, fishing & agriculture. With a translation section which includes phrases to be used to "impress the objurgated" (severely scolded), such as "You had better look out, sirrah!" (pp41-44). Small 4to, 158pp, tipped in color frontispiece, 19 color photogravures and illustrations in the text after Hokusai. Quarter gray cloth and decorative Japanese paper covered boards, with red title at front board and black title at spine. A clean, tight copy with a bit of rubbing at edges of boards, spine slightly etched. The signature and the book plate of Paul Dinant, San Francisco; also signature of J. C. Bentz, Feb. 17, 1912, on front end paper.
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