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The Guild of Book Workers 75th Anniversary Exhibition
NY The Guild of Book Workers, 1981. 1st ed., 1st ptg. 1500 copies. Softcover. VG/-. 8vo. Obl. 96pp. Illus. endpp. A beautiful collection of color and b/w photographs along w/ mini-biographies of the featured artists and descriptions of their books. Slight wear to extremeties; fading to spine, light scuffing to wraps. (more information)
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Tokyo: The Shimbi Shoin, Ltd, 1932. 1st ed. thus. Limited to 1500 copies of which this is #474. Hardcover. NF/No dustjacket. 8vo. 238pp., Full colour plate, double-page color frontis., 20 full page b&w illus., col. w/ edition # and illustrator's sig. (Yasumasa Fujita). Boards are bound Japanese style in gold silk brocade, TEG. Boards show edge-wear on bottom edges and corners. Hearn's second to last book, a collection of "Kwaidan" ghost tales of Japan. Unfortunately there is no slipcase for this beautiful volume but it is "In archival plastic." (more information)
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