THE HOKUSAI SKETCHBOOKS by Michener, James A - 1958

Vermont & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1958. 286pgs. 187 full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations.Clay and black cloth with Japanese letters. on the front panel, Bright gilt lettering on the spine. there is offsetting to the preliminary page, light spot on the front free endpaper, Dampstain on the lower right corner of the front panel, otherwise internally free of wear. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has chips on the upper extremities. Housed in a Cardboard box with a paper label, which has been reinforced.. Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by Sesshu Toyo and other styles of Chinese painting.. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Illus. by Hokusai. 10.2 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches .

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1958. First printing. Lower edge of the boards sunned, upper edge of the text block lightly foxed. Jacket gently rubbed with small chips and tears, including a 1" tear at the upper front panel. Price clipped, rear flap corner creased, in new Brodart. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle Company, 1975 286 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ and slipcase. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red eps, b/w sketch frontis; no defects. Cover: brown/charcoal, rice paper paster w/ Japanese characters front, gilt titles spine; no shelfwear, no defects. DJ: unclipped, glossy yellow, black/pink artwork front, black titles/text all surfaces; minimal edge/shelfwear, shallow scribble indentations front (paper was laid on cover and scribbled on). Slipcase is cardboard shipping slipcase w/ decorated and titled paster to 3 sides.

Rutland VT & Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. 286 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with self portrait of Hokusai as an old man. Fully illustrated with 187 amazing full page plates and hundreds of text decorations. First 30 or so pages are lightly water stained at lower edges, otherwise pages good condition and clean. Some unopened pages. Black and peach colored cloth with distinctive vertical white label and japanese title on upper cover. Gilt title on spine. Upper board and tail of spine has water stain at lower edge. Cream colored dust jacket with black and white drawings on upper cover and red and black titles. Edges lighlty worn. Head of spine worn. VG/GOOD+. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Cardboard slipcase near new, light soil/shelf wear.
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From flyleaf: Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock printed volumes entitled Hokusai Manga, or Hokusai's Sketches from Life, which was destined to be one of the most popular art publications ever issued anywhere in the world. With its rich tapestry of life as it was lived in the boisterous Tokyo of the day and its magical evocation of the beauties of the Japanese countryside, it was an immediate best-seller in Japan, and then, upon the West's discovery of Japanese art, went on to win the hearts of people everywhere. It is from this amazing book, amazing both in execution and breadth of scope, that the… Read More

Rutland, Vermont / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. Third printing. Quarto. Page and cloth edges lightly dampstained, slight sunning at the crown, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with a small nick and tear at the crown, lacking the slipcase. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

Tuttle Publishing. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Tuttle, 1974. 11th edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. cardboard slipcase decorated and titled paster to 3 sides. very clean and increasingly rare book

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959. 286 pages including index. Dust Jacket is clean and price clipped. In Slipcase with wraparound label. Slipcase has tiny wear at edges. Book includes two inserts printed from actual woodblocks. 187 full page two-color plates and hundreds of text illustrations. Printed Japanese style, on double folded paper. In publisher's cardboard slipcase. Michener edited the book, wrote a lengthy essay on Hokusai--often called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Orient--and informative captions for every plate. New insights into the quality of Hokusai's art and the Manga: "Hokusai's Sketches from Life"--a look at Japanese history, customs, superstitions, psychology, life, pleasures, botany, zoology, architecture, agriculture, astronomy--the book is an encyclopedia of Japan! Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.