THE SILENT FIREFLY: JAPANESE SONGS OF LOVE AND OTHER THINGS [SLIPCASED] by SACKHEIM, ERIC (translated by) - 1971

Fun, quirky little book. Clean copy; spine is faded; pages show tanning due to aging.

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1963 Book. Illus. by woodlock illustrations by Kitao Masami (Keisai). Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 203 pp. with color illustrations. First Edition, 1963. In Very Good+ Illustrated heavy card Slipcase with minor edge wear, and lightly age-toned spine. Original publisher's wax-paper dust jacket with small chips along top edge, and age-toned spine, and near Pristine white paper-band wrapped around covers. Only the slightest wear to boards with partial fading to spine, two small chips to fore-edge margin of tissue- protected fold-out map at front, and faintly age-toned text block edges, else Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 4.75" x 7.5". Purple quarter-cloth with textured-red paper-covered boards, white paper title plate red and black lettering to front board and spine, and color illustrated endpapers. Songs: Kyushu; Shikoku; Chugoku; Kinki; Southern Chubu; Northern Chubu; Kanto; Tohuku; Historical… Read More

Kodansha International Ltd. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 2nd printing, 1965. In Good slipcase. (Japanese folk songs) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Kodansha International, 1963. hbk 203pp stated 1st edition shelfwear and rubbing to boards some slight water damage to earliest pages text mainly unaffected illustrated endpapers and color illustrations throughout slipcase is also shelfworn and discolored with some small stains however it is intact and has kept its contents clean and tight becoming hard to find