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Songs of the Garden
by Kitigawa Utamaro
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870993682
- ISBN 13
- 9780870993688
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The Metropolitcan Museum of Art / The Viking Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Introduction, notes, and translations by Yakuko Betchaku and Joan B. Mirviss. The Book of Insects by artist Utamaro (1753-1806) is reproduced on 15 "double" color plates - one image across facing pages; the paintings incorporate poems, which are translated in a notes section at the end alongside small b&w reproductions of the same paintings. Pages unnumbered. The book, 7-3/4" x 10", maroon cloth, is produced in accordion format, open on both side edges, allowing easy fold-out of the plates. Minute soil spots to the front board and its paper label, which also has one tan stain, a touch of soil to the edges, corners sharp, no marks within. The slipcover has edge-wear and soil, particularly a coffee stain to the label on the front.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1178
- Title
- Songs of the Garden
- Author
- Kitigawa Utamaro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0870993682
- ISBN 13
- 9780870993688
- Publisher
- The Metropolitcan Museum of Art / The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- YASUKO BETCHAKU, JOAN B. MIRVISS, BOOK OF INSECTS, JAPANESE ART, EHON MUSHI ERABI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Art; Horticulture;
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