The Masters' Book of Ikebana: Background and Principles of Japanese Flower Arrangement
by Donald Richie (Ed.), Meredith Weatherby (Ed.), Sen'ei Ikenobo, Houn Ohara, Sofu Teshigahara
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Interior is clean and unmarked. Gilt to spine is starting to fade. Former owner bookplate to front paste-down. Only very gentle shelf-wear. Stunningly designed book: full-cloth with embroidered chartreuse silk and printed balsa label to front board. Full-color printed end-sheets. Jam-packed with beautiful full-color plates, some tipped in, as well as B&W and full-color photos. High-quality goldenrod one-quarter paper band printed with title in black. Protected with detachable plastic jacket. Includes index and bibliography (pp. 266–267). 272 pp. Oversized.
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- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 931759
- Title
- The Masters' Book of Ikebana: Background and Principles of Japanese Flower Arrangement
- Author
- Donald Richie (Ed.), Meredith Weatherby (Ed.), Sen'ei Ikenobo, Houn Ohara, Sofu Teshigahara
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated 1st Ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....