Kabuki: A Set of 6 Pictures with Stories by Gekko Ohashi (Series 1)
by Gekko Ohashi
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Kyoto: Kyoto Hanga-In Co., Ltd, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Patterned large 8vo hardcover folder with paper title label, interior flaps, string ties. Booklet "Explanations and Stories" red string bound in patterned stiff wraps lettered in red. 8 pp. illustrated with black and white reproductions of the six woodblocks with the story of each in English and Japanese. Errata table tipped onto inside cover. The six color 9 1/4" x 11" woodblock prints are all fine and bright with the exception of the first which has some toning about the top and right margins where the thin paper interior folder touched it. The striped bottom interior flap (matching the covers) is detached but present, wear to the cover tips and spine side fold. Gekko Ohashi (b. 1895) on the Japan's Shikoku Island, began his career by painting illustrations for newspaper and amgazines about 1925; in 1935 he began to devote his painting to the subject of Kabuki theater, for hich he gained his fame.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21474
- Title
- Kabuki: A Set of 6 Pictures with Stories by Gekko Ohashi (Series 1)
- Author
- Gekko Ohashi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Kyoto Hanga-In Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Kyoto
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- art, woodblock, illustration, china, japan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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