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Taka-Chan and I; A Dog's Journey to Japan
by Lifton, Betty Jean; Eikoh Hosoe (Photography)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 62 pages; 1967 W. W. Norton & Company. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and very neat in generally sharp and neat pictorial dust jacket. Tightly bound copy feels and appears generally unread in pale yellow cloth lettered in green and brown. Pictorial dust jacket has trace shelf rubbing to spine ends and corners and mild dust spotting along the front spine fold. This copy is in the reinforced binding variant for placement in the library trade, with linen reinforced hinges and a Norton gold metallic band over the jacket spine indicating "Reinforced Binding." As usual with such copies the front jacket flap is price clipped. Handsomely illustrated with lushly reproduced b&w photographs of Weimaraner, Runcible, and the other protagonist "Taka-Chan. " It goes without saying that the quality of the photo printing of Hosoe's work in the 1st edition of this very unusual, fantastical dog and girl story far exceeds that of the later reprints. An additional note of possible interest; the prior owner was a children's books librarian whose collection includes numerous of her personal favorites, apparently purchased upon release out of her own funds as an extra copy for the library order. So nearly all of her really wonderful 1st editions are in the library type bindings with dust jackets, but preserved generally unread in her personal collection. This copy Is NF/VG+ .
Synopsis
Betty Jean Lifton discovered a passion for Japanese culture and folklore while living in Japan with her husband, the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, in the early 1960s. Out of that interest came many children’s books, including Kap the Kappa , Joji and the Dragon , The Rice-cake Rabbit , and The Dwarf Pine Tree . After the publication of Taka-chan and I , Lifton and Eikoh Hosoe collaborated on three more books: A Dog’s Guide to Tokyo, A Place Called Hiroshima , and Return to Hiroshima . In 1975 she published Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter , which marked the start of her second career as an adoption writer, counselor, and adoptee-rights advocate. She died in 2010, after many years living in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Wellfleet, Cape Cod. Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan’s preemenant photographers. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Georges Pompidou Center, the Smithsonian, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other museums. In 2010 and 2011 Theatre of Memory, a retrospective exhibit of Hosoe’s dance photography, was shown at the Japan Foundation, Cologne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Runcible was the youngest in a litter of eleven Weimaraner puppies. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, and at the age of seven weeks was adopted by Betty Jean Lifton. It was from Mrs. Lifton that Runcible developed his nose for literature. He began digging up the material for this book during a two-year stay in Japan. Runcible is a firm believer in international understanding. “The world would be a better place if more dogs would travel,” he says. Runcible and Eikoh Hosoe met one day when the photographer was walking on a lonely beach in Japan. Mr. Hosoe couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a dog coming right out of the ground, but before Runcible’s departure from Japan the two had a long talk and Runcible told Mr. Hosoe about his adventure.
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49884
- Title
- Taka-Chan and I; A Dog's Journey to Japan
- Author
- Lifton, Betty Jean; Eikoh Hosoe (Photography)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dog Books;
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DogStar Books
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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