Little Pictures of Japan. My Travelship

by MILLER, Olive Beaupre

Price: $45.00

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Chicago: Book House for Children, 1954. VERY FINE book condition/NO dust jacket. Dark blue cloth hard cover with colorful laid in plate on the front of a young Japanese girl with a deer & a bird. Small amount of foxing to top & leading edges of pages. Very slight amount of shelf soil. Otherwise, AS NEW. Colorful, bright Japanese illustrated end papers. Beautiful full color illustrations accompany each poem. "Japanese poetry, representing, like its art, the best in the Japanese people, is a spontaneous love of beauty, expressed with the simplicity and wondering adoration of a child. ... The first purpose of the Japanese book is to awaken in children an appreciation for beauty, a real tenderness for it. The poems are so simple that a child old enough to like Mother Goose is old enough for most of them." Beautiful full color illustrations in the Japanese style accompany each poem. 191 pp. Pages are crisp, clean & tight. Spine uncracked. This book is UNREAD. Gift quality condition. Also available in this set: Tales Told in Holland. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. . 30th Printing. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by STURGES, Katherine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.