Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways
Date Published: 1939
Description: Small octavo. Tourist Library: 29. 100 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 56 photographic reproductions. Glossary. Covers sunned with edgewear, closed tear at upper margin of p. 33/34, else a very good copy. read more
Edition: unknwn
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Board of Tourist Industry
Date Published: 1939
Description: Color frontis & b/w photos. VG in wraps Some light foxing to first several pages, wraps. 12mo, 99pp., Tanning to the edges of the wraps. Very interesting book which attempts to give the tourist some degree of understanding of. Japanese sculpture which some westerners may find different. Illustrates the impact of Buddhism on Japanes sculpture plus the emergence of "modern" sculpture based on weatern styles. Nice copy in this Tourist Library series. bibliography Translated by M. G. Mori. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo
Description: This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. The white paper jacket has light soil and a couple of light stains to the area around the spine. The hard board covers contain two loose booklets: one with the photographs the other with the text and plate list. The photographs are printed in handsome sepia photogravure. They are all close-ups of these compelling archaic Japanese figurative sculptures. 14" high X 10" wide, 7 pages text + plate list + 32 full-page plates. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Tokyo
Description: VG in VG- jacket. Large Hardcover with dust jacket. An unusual binding format. The sections of text and of illustrations are laid in between the covers, and not actually bound in. There are 32 plates. The d.j. has a few smudges and small tears, VG/VG-. read more
Edition: Tourist Library: 29
Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways, Japan
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Translated by M. G. Mori. Illustrated by full page photos. Profusely illustrated. 99 pages. Light war and wrinkles to some edges. Otherwise a tight, clean copy with clean internal text pages. read more
Description: Good. 1939 Wrappers. 99pp. Illustrated. Tourist Library Series 29 First edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, great seller", "Fantastic, came right away and was in perfect condition--thanks! " read more
Publisher: Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, [Tokyo]
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Text in English, Japanese. 99, [1] p. col. front., illus. 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. "Short bibliography": p. 99. Some fading on first page. Otherwise in excelent condition. read more
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