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Tuttle Publishing, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Rutland, VT: Charles A. Tuttle, 1968. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, clipped price; 286 clean, unmarked pages/index; sans slipcase. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by B/w. 4 vo.

CETuttle, 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. 286 pages in excellent condition. 187 beautiful full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations. Brown/blue cloth covered boards (silk?) with gilt titles on the spine. Japanes characters on a white label on the front cover. One corner lightly bumped, fading at the head/tail of spine. Beige, illustrated DJ with black titles. Light wear at corners and edges. Small chip at both head/tail of spine. Price clipped. VG+/VG. Comes in a brown cardboard slipcase with illustrated, yellow label. Edges darkened. Conditionis GOOD.. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2.

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.

Hardcover. Good. EARLY EDITION WITH REAL WOOD-BLOCK PRINT. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Bound in dark grey and tan silk-covered boards with Japanese paper title label and gilt lettering. With 4-page wood-block insert. Some minor wavering to a few pages else very good overall condition. No markings, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY.

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.

Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. Second printing. Illustrated, many in two colors. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tiny scuff at head of spine panel). Inscribed by the author. Publisher's decorated card slipcase (some toning to cardboard). Second printing. Illustrated, many in two colors. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title: "Centerville, Md. 1980 To Gene Hafner, this lovely book, signed for a book lover, James A. Michener". Groseclose A.013