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Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan
by Rosenstone, Robert A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0674576411
- ISBN 13
- 9780674576414
- Seller
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About This Item
Harvard University Press, 1988. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Harvard University Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page, in unclipped dust jacket. Rust brown cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering on spine. Clean, with no bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with maroon endpapers (small previous owner name neatly stamped at top edge of front free endpaper and top edge of blank fly leaf). 315 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has some fading to spine background and upper left front corner, one very short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027136
- Title
- Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan
- Author
- Rosenstone, Robert A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0674576411
- ISBN 13
- 9780674576414
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- JAPAN, JAPANESE AND AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP, HISTORY, MEIJI FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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- Good+
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