QUEER THINGS ABOUT JAPAN
by Sladen, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Anthony Treherne & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. Second Impression. Hard Cover. xxxvi (last blank), 444 (last blank) pp, with seven coloured pages & 30 full page illustrations & illustrated endpapers by the celebrated artist Hokusai, never before reproduced in England, top edge gilt but fading, This book was originally bound in a silk (hard cover) with lettering on the spine & a title label on the front cover board, in this case the silk had deteriorated to a point of no return, so the book has been rebound in green/gold silk with the original front cover label placed on the spine, the original illustrated endpapers preserved. A very nice copy, DIGITAL IMAGES ON REQUEST.; 225 x 140mm .
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Details
- Bookseller
- M & A Simper Bookbinders (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2897
- Title
- QUEER THINGS ABOUT JAPAN
- Author
- Sladen, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Anthony Treherne & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Japan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Xmas List 2002; Other Countries; All;
Terms of Sale
M & A Simper Bookbinders
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About the Seller
M & A Simper Bookbinders
Biblio member since 2004
WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria
About M & A Simper Bookbinders
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....