Meeting with Japan by Maraini, Fosco - 1960

Book Club Associates (BCA), London, 1960. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. author's preface, bibliography, notes on photographs and general index. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper showing map of Japan at the end of the XVIIth century, rear end paper showing modern Japan. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photography in four sections, along with black-and-white line drawings and illustrations within the text. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with yellow embossed Japanese writing to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Pale pink coloured tint to the top textblock edge.A book, very personal, on Japan of the 1950s and early 1960s, introducing its history, people and culture.Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher.  Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners with some slight bumping, with the lower corners underlying board exposed. Sunning along the edges of the book with some darkening of the cloth of the book. Tanning and foxing of the textblock edges with age toning of the pages and occasional foxing spot to the text. Quite noticeable foxing of the first few and last few pages of the book.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10],11 - 467, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Japan; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 0128383. . THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 1KG WITHOUT PACKING AND EXTRA POST WILL BE REQUIRED FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA. PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR COSTS BEFORE YOU ORDER, THANK YOU.