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Japan's Policies and Purposes: Selections from Recent Addresses and Writings
by Hirosi Saito [Hiroshi]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Without dust jacket
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Marshall Jones, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Without dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front end paper and inscribed to a previous owner. Saito was Japanese Ambassador to the United States. Saito, a thin and dapper man, died mysteriously of a 'chest ailment' in 1939. He was a well-liked diplomate, popular in Washington, and noted for his excellent English as well as a fine sense of humor. Once asked to explain his youthfulness he said, "Whiskey and soda, all afternoon, every afternoon." Octavo, 9 " tall, x + 231 pages, gilt spine titles on black cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, and sturdy hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, and exterior rubbing, light exterior soiling, but the front fore-edge shows a surface stain (coffee) not visible in the interior except at the edge margin of the title page; hinges and binding solid, paper clean and just lightly yellowed with slight foxing to fore-edges. Without dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45887
- Title
- Japan's Policies and Purposes: Selections from Recent Addresses and Writings
- Author
- Hirosi Saito [Hiroshi]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Without dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Marshall Jones
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Japan, Foreign affairs, Diplomacy, signed; Japan,; Foreign affairs; State Department; Diplomacy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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