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Kodansha America, 1980-01-01. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 10x7x0. Minor shelf wear to binding. Pages & inside covers toning with age, otherwise text and images unmarked.

New York: Kodansha America, Incorporated, 1990. 10th Anniversary Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 10" x 7 1/4. 133 Pages. Previous owners name label with date "13 Jun 82" and price "$8.95" on front endpaper. This is the first book in English to describe the techniques of saikei, the most recent innovation in the timeless Japanese art of miniaturized plant culture. Saikei embraces the esthetic traditions of bonsai but allows a greater freedom in composition. Its use of ordinary stones and seedlings makes it a perfect beginning point for the aspiring bonsai enthusiast, while the bonsai connoisseur can derive pleasure in organizing the young plants into saikei patterns while he is waiting for them to mature. Saikei compositions are best suited to simple cement or earthenware trays that can be kept indoors or out, offering the city apartment dweller with space limitations or the person with his own garden equal opportunity to engage in this fascinating hobby. Saikei… Read More

Kodansha International; Ward Lock, 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1967 Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Kodansha International Ltd.:, 1980. First published in 1967, this book was reprinted as a paperback in 1980, 133 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "Saikei has no bounds; it aviods the rigid formality that is often evident in bonsai, lending itself more to experimentation and freedom to compostition." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, oblong.

Kodansha International. As New in As New dust jacket. 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0870114182 . This specific hardback book is in like new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with little wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers. ; "This is the first book in English to describe the techniques of saikei, the most recent innovation in the timeless Japanese art of miniaturized plant culture. Saikei embraces the esthetic traditions of bonsai but allows a greater freedom in composition. Its use of ordinary stones and seedlings makes it a perfect beginning point for the aspiring bonsai enthusiast, while the bonsai connoisseur can derive pleasure in organizing the young plants into saikei patterns while he is waiting for them to mature. Written by the bonsai expert who… Read More

New York: Kodansha International, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful Book, Fifth Printing 1972 stated, 133 pages, heavily illustrated with black and white detailed illustrations and excellent color and black and white photographs, striking oblong format 7.5 inches in height by 10.25 inches in length, publisher's stunning green linen cloth binding bright silver title to spine and illustration to front board, super clean pale tan end papers, as new never read condition, ultra clean with NO previous owner bookplate or writing, Includes Glossary, bibliography and index. Jacket is near Fine US price is present, Fantastic Slipcase is almost near Fine, A superior copy. Value priced. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo / Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd., 1967. Hardcover. Very good-/Very good-. Tokyo / Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd., 1967. Numerous color photographs of miniatures and b/w examples. 133 pp. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. Deep forest green cloth. Head and heel sunned. Light scattered foxing only to edges and discolored endpapers. Else, clean, tight, and bright. Dj is slightly yellowed, edges foxed. Housed in an edge-worn, foxed, toned, soiled cardboard slipcover. Very good-/Very good-.

Tokyo & Palo Alto: Kodansha International Ltd, 1967. Well illustrated, horizontal octavo, pp 133, very clean internally, green cloth with silver decoration, very slightly faded at the margins, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and stretched, with a tear to the upper cover. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and stretched.

Kodansha International, 1969. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Palo Alto, California: Kodansha International Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover.

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!