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Yoshiwara: The Nightless City
by Anonymous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Charles Carrington, Paris, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Utamaro. ANONYMOUS. Yoshiwara: The Nightless City, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1907. Octavo, No. 121 of 500 printed for the Erotic Society of Japan, pp. 340, green cloth boards with traditional Japanese bag binding with paper label on front, 6 plates after the shunga of Utamaro. Condition of this book: Paper label worn and discolored, else fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Utamaro. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Japan; 1900-1920; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55437. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55437
- Title
- Yoshiwara: The Nightless City
- Author
- Anonymous
- Illustrator
- Utamaro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Carrington
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Erotica; Japan; 1900-1920; Antiquarian & Rare. Utamaro Unbranded Anonymous Yoshiwara: The Nightless City
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About the Seller
Rarities etc.
Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
About Rarities etc.
Rarities specializes in photos, prints and art and photography books. We also offer vintage oddities.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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