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[Text in Japanese] 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition
by YAMAGUCHI, Yasuhisa and Shinichi Nakajima (editors)
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (23.5 x 24.5cm.); white paper boards in light green paper wrapper with gilt lettering; 50 unpaginated color plates. Text block has light handling wear and thumb creasing, but overall clean and sound; Fine. Wrappers show sunning along spine, with sunning and creasing along upper margins as well. Spine slightly pushed at crown and chipped on heel; Near Fine+. An exhibition catalog from the 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition (Nihon Bonsai Sakufuuten) at the Daimaru Grand Hall department store in Tokyo. Features 50 fine full-color photographic plates of special and selected prize-winning bonsai exhibits, plus biographical information of featured bonsai artists. All text in Japanese.
Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46342
- Title
- [Text in Japanese] 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition
- Author
- YAMAGUCHI, Yasuhisa and Shinichi Nakajima (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mainichi Shinbun-sha
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Foreign Language Imprints; Japan;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Wrappers
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fine
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