Boston: Marshall Jones Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Issued to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Japan Society, New York. Decorative gray paper boards, black cloth spine, cover lettered in Japanese in black, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with b&w photos on plates. In publishers dust jacket illustrated and lettered in red. This copy with authors presentation inscription on the half-title penned and signed in the year of publication. Scarce thus. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/4"; xi, 178 pp; Signed by Author; Book lightly worn along edges, solid hinges, pages clean and unmarked apart from inscription, closed tear at lower corner of last leaf. Good only dust jacket with large closed tear to front panel including loosses affecting illustration, rubbed along folds, edgeworn with small losses at corners and top/bottom of spine, soiled, remnants of bookseller label inside front flap, protected by mylar cover. .

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Bookseller: Andrew Langer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4862
Title: ART, LIFE, and NATURE in JAPAN
Author: Anesaki, Masaharu
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Marshall Jones Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1933
Bookseller catalogs: Japan;

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