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Washington:National Gallery of Art. 2004. Pamphlet. no pagination. Illustrated with 21 color plates. In fine condition.
$15.00
[no place]; [Kobunsha, a.k.a. Hasegawa], [ca. 1886]. Softcover. Illustrated in color. 26 pp. Printed on folded crepe paper leaves. Approximately100mmx150mm. Bound with two silk ties (present). Good condtion. Covers are age toned with some handling grime and deterioration with loss of material in the lower 20mm of front. Spine fabric missing about 50%. Inside is fairly clean with an owner's penned name, scattered spots, handling grime and a couple small dampstains. A fairy tale told in English by translator B.H. Chamberlain, illustrated with lovely color illustrations by Hasegawa, and printed on delicate folded crepe paper. (cfm)
$125.00
New York:A Peacock Press/Bantam Books. (1977). 1st edition, stated. No pagination. Illustrated. Softcover. Covers lightly soiled and worn along edges and spine strip. Internally, the 1st free end-page is lightly foxed along outside edges, otherwise pages clean and bright. A very good copy.
$65.00
Philadelphia:George Gebbie, Publisher. 1873. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 12 black/white engravings by Dore. Hardcover. Brown decorated boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with sun-fading to edges of boards and spine strip. There is a small hole to front gutter, and top of spine end is worn and frayed. Internally, a previous owners gift inscription to 2nd free endpage, otherwise pages clean. Some tissue guards are age toned but plates are clean and bright.
$225.00
Boston:Taylor Press. 1915. 285pp. Illustrated with frontispiece. Hardcover. Brown boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear to edges, spine ends starting to fray, and edge points gently bumped. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight, front hinge intact with rear just starting. Overall, a very good copy.
$65.00
Santa Barbara:Capra Press. 1982. Limited edition of 250 copies, numbered (#47) and signed on the Colophon page by Laurence Durrell, who wrote the foreward. 143pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black/white. Hardcover with slipcase. Blue textured cloth boards lightly sunfaded along spine strip but still in very good condition. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Slipcase is slightly soiled but still in very good condition. *With collected essays by Henry Miller on the art of watercolor, a foreward by Lawrence Durrell.
$300.00
[Tokyo]; [Kobunsha, a.k.a. Hasegawa], [ca. 1886]. Softcover. Illustrated. 26 pp. Printed on folded crepe paper leaves. Approximately100mmx150mm. Bound with two silk ties (present). Good condtion. Covers show some handling grime and there is a triangle (30mm/side) of missing material in the lower right of front cover. Spine fabric missing about 50%. Inside is an owner's penned name; otherwise interior is pretty clean and in nice condition. A fairy tale told in English by translator B.H. Chamberlain, illustrated with lovely illustrations by Hasegawa, and printed on delicate folded crepe paper. (cfm)
$125.00
Lavenham, Suffolk:Terence Dalton Limited. 1975. 136pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy with a very good, slightly edgeworn dust jacket. *This book deals exclusively and authoritatively with the "Pier-head Artists" and their work. This was the name given by seamen to the artists who supplied them with portraits of the ships they sailed in, pictures which a century ago changed hands for a few shillings and are now eagerly sought after by collectors and museums.
$25.00
New Haven:Yale University Press. 1950. 1st edition (of 750 copies). 117pp+ Illustrations. Hardcover. A very good, clean copy, inside and out.
$20.00
Tokyo; Kodansha International Ltd., [1981]. 171pp. Profusely illustrated (91 color plates and hundreds of b/w plates). Hardcover in slipcase. Near Fine, with some sun fading to spine, and light rubbing to slipcase.
$150.00
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1994. Hardcover, with jacket. In Fine condition. Still in publisher shrinkwrap. (cfm)
$40.00
(Venezia):Canal and Stamperia Editrice. (1996). pp.x,(1),335. Illustrated. Wrps. Covers lightly soiled and shelf-worn at edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy.
$45.00
Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints. (1990). 133pp+72plates. Illustrated. Softcover. Covers very lightly shelfworn with a bit of soiling to bottom edges of front cover, otherwise a very good, clean, never used copy. Near fine. *"....a thoughtful and energetic defense of the older establishment together with a forthright attack on what he regarded as the "clumisly applied daubs of paint" which he saw as characterizing the emerging school."...back cover
$125.00
New York:Hirschl & Adler Modern. (1995). 40pp. Illustrated with color. Stapled wraps. Covers lightly soiled, with what looks like a large oil stain to rear cover with affects the last few pages. It does not intrude on any plates. Otherwise a very good, clean coy.
$50.00
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