ROKUBEI AND THE THOUSAND RICE BOWLS
by Uchida, Yoshiko
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Scribner, NY, 1962,, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. Kazue Mizumura. Small quarto, dj in mylar. Pictorial cover matches dj in green with boy running through rice bowls. Ex children's library w/ pocket and stamp, else good in good green pictorial dj. First edition, first printing. A story of old Japan about a poor farmer named Rokubei who made so much pottery, including rice bowls, that his wife demanded that all of it be put outside the house. The bowls crashed down whenever he scratched his back or his wife sneezed or the dog wagged his tail.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3720
- Title
- ROKUBEI AND THE THOUSAND RICE BOWLS
- Author
- Uchida, Yoshiko
- Illustrator
- Kazue Mizumura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Scribner, NY, 1962,
- Date Published
- 1972
Terms of Sale
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bookwitch
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Concord, California
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Quarto
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- Poor
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