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Shoal of Fishes
by Hiroshige (Ando Tokutaro) (Illus); Holme, Bryan (Intro)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket As Issued
- Seller
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Viking Press, 1980 Red cloth with plain paper title label, housed in original slip case which is gently worn with a few stray marks. A leporello bound volume of 20 reproductions of prints of fishes with poetry by renowned, 19th Century Japanese artist Hiroshige, whose birth name was Ando Tokutaro. Following the print reproductions is an identification guide with English translations of the poems (translated by Ellen Cary & Sally Fisher). . First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Hiroshige (Ando Tokutaro). Small 4to.
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- Bookseller
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009331
- Title
- Shoal of Fishes
- Author
- Hiroshige (Ando Tokutaro) (Illus); Holme, Bryan (Intro)
- Illustrator
- Hiroshige (Ando Tokutaro)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art / Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- Small 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Japanese art, Japanese Prints, fish, Poetry, Eastern Art
Terms of Sale
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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