The Hokusai Sketch-Books: Selections from the Manga by Michener, James A - 1962

Vermont & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1958. 286pgs. 187 full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations.Clay and black cloth with Japanese letters. on the front panel, Bright gilt lettering on the spine. there is offsetting to the preliminary page, light spot on the front free endpaper, Dampstain on the lower right corner of the front panel, otherwise internally free of wear. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has chips on the upper extremities. Housed in a Cardboard box with a paper label, which has been reinforced.. Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by Sesshu Toyo and other styles of Chinese painting.. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Illus. by Hokusai. 10.2 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches .

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1958. First printing. Lower edge of the boards sunned, upper edge of the text block lightly foxed. Jacket gently rubbed with small chips and tears, including a 1" tear at the upper front panel. Price clipped, rear flap corner creased, in new Brodart. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle Company, 1975 286 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ and slipcase. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red eps, b/w sketch frontis; no defects. Cover: brown/charcoal, rice paper paster w/ Japanese characters front, gilt titles spine; no shelfwear, no defects. DJ: unclipped, glossy yellow, black/pink artwork front, black titles/text all surfaces; minimal edge/shelfwear, shallow scribble indentations front (paper was laid on cover and scribbled on). Slipcase is cardboard shipping slipcase w/ decorated and titled paster to 3 sides.

Rutland VT & Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. 286 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with self portrait of Hokusai as an old man. Fully illustrated with 187 amazing full page plates and hundreds of text decorations. First 30 or so pages are lightly water stained at lower edges, otherwise pages good condition and clean. Some unopened pages. Black and peach colored cloth with distinctive vertical white label and japanese title on upper cover. Gilt title on spine. Upper board and tail of spine has water stain at lower edge. Cream colored dust jacket with black and white drawings on upper cover and red and black titles. Edges lighlty worn. Head of spine worn. VG/GOOD+. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Cardboard slipcase near new, light soil/shelf wear.
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From flyleaf: Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock printed volumes entitled Hokusai Manga, or Hokusai's Sketches from Life, which was destined to be one of the most popular art publications ever issued anywhere in the world. With its rich tapestry of life as it was lived in the boisterous Tokyo of the day and its magical evocation of the beauties of the Japanese countryside, it was an immediate best-seller in Japan, and then, upon the West's discovery of Japanese art, went on to win the hearts of people everywhere. It is from this amazing book, amazing both in execution and breadth of scope, that the… Read More

Rutland, Vermont / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. Third printing. Quarto. Page and cloth edges lightly dampstained, slight sunning at the crown, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with a small nick and tear at the crown, lacking the slipcase. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

Tuttle Publishing. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Tuttle, 1974. 11th edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. cardboard slipcase decorated and titled paster to 3 sides. very clean and increasingly rare book

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959. 286 pages including index. Dust Jacket is clean and price clipped. In Slipcase with wraparound label. Slipcase has tiny wear at edges. Book includes two inserts printed from actual woodblocks. 187 full page two-color plates and hundreds of text illustrations. Printed Japanese style, on double folded paper. In publisher's cardboard slipcase. Michener edited the book, wrote a lengthy essay on Hokusai--often called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Orient--and informative captions for every plate. New insights into the quality of Hokusai's art and the Manga: "Hokusai's Sketches from Life"--a look at Japanese history, customs, superstitions, psychology, life, pleasures, botany, zoology, architecture, agriculture, astronomy--the book is an encyclopedia of Japan! Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. 1st. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 286 pp. Index. 187 plates. Lengthy essay on Hokusai by Michener. Blue & rose silk cloth with gilt lettering to spine & paper title label to front cover in color illustrated dustjacket; housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase with yellow & brown illustrated wrap-around label. Includes 3 pp tipped in insert wtih 3 plates. A near fine copy (faint mark of paper clip to ffep & 1st pp) in near fine dustjacket (upper front flap corner clipped - US price remains; light wear to extremities; short close tear to upper rear cover); light wear to slipcase else fine. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. A collection of sketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai. Subjects of the sketches include landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday life and the supernatural. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic… Read More