Description

Hardcover, pictorial cloth in matching pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous drawings and pictorial endpapers by the Nakatsuchi brothers . A diary of the author’s impressions of life in Japan based on his experiences during a residency of fifteen years. Text block untrimmed. Previous owner’s book-plate affixed inside front cover-almost entirely obscured by dust-jacket flap. Dust-jacket spine browned from age and mild rubbing and wear along top edge of jacket. Bulked sheets show light staining along top edge. Original Japanese stamped price label tipped-in at rear and covered by rice paper. Small 4pp. list of adverts for the Hokuseido Press, including works by Lafcadio Hearn, laid-in. Cloth covers and interior generally clean. Very good copy in good dust-jacket.