Coloured (Colored) Illustrations of the Shells of Japan
by Tetsuaki Kira
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Osaka, Japan: Huikusha. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover with Slipcase. A clean, pristine copy of this wonderfullly illustated guide to Japanese shells. The book itself is crisp and tight, with some foxing on the edges which does not affect the pages. The jacket has one small closed tear, but is otherwise excellent, and the whole is encased in a slipcase. The text is in Japanese, but the hundreds of illustrations of shells are labelled both in English, or rather, Latin, as well as Japanese. A citation for each shell is also given in English (Fulton, Reeve, Lamy, etc.--if you're a student of shells then you probably know what this means), and there is an index by Latin names in English, so the book is quite user-friendly for the non-Japanese reader. .
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- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14958
- Title
- Coloured (Colored) Illustrations of the Shells of Japan
- Author
- Tetsuaki Kira
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Huikusha
- Place of Publication
- Osaka, Japan
- Date Published
- 1955
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About the Seller
Autumn Leaves Books
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About Autumn Leaves Books
Internet only, in business since 2000, specializing in the obscure, the scholarly, the unusual. Most jackets are mylar-protected.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...