THE BLACK SHIP SCROLL: An Account of the Perry Expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the Lively Beginnings of People-to-People Relations Between Japan & America
by Statler, Oliver. Translated by Richard Lane
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc, 1965. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Anonymous Japanese eyewitness. 1st edition, 2nd printing, 1965. A Very Good+ copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Slim 4to., 80 pp., with 40 pages of full color scroll paintings. Bound in publishers black cloth and paper boards with illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is price clipped, very slight darkening to spine. Clean and unmarked, light dust to text edges. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29947
- Title
- THE BLACK SHIP SCROLL: An Account of the Perry Expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the Lively Beginnings of People-to-People Relations Between Japan & America
- Author
- Statler, Oliver. Translated by Richard Lane
- Illustrator
- Anonymous Japanese eyewitness
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, 2nd printing
- Publisher
- John Weatherhill, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1965
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Rougemont, North Carolina
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