Floating World: Japan In The Edo Period (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, JOHN REEVE)
by Reeve, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0714124346
- ISBN 13
- 9780714124346
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: British Museum Press, 2006. NrF/Fine. First Edition, First Printing in d/w price clipped. Inscription reads, 'for Josephine/KEEP ON FLOATING!/love & best wishes/from/John/10.12'. Profusely illustrated with forty-five colour Japanese illustrations. Ukiyo - the floating world - is the name given to a remarkable phenomenon that began seventeenth-century Edo (modern Tokyo). The floating world has been described as a state of mind, 'living only for the moment, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves', as well as a world of licensed pleasure-seeking which promised release from the restraints imposed on life in a highly regulated urban society. The pleasure districts of old Edo included colourful kabuki as well as luxurious shops where the work of screen printers and laquer craftsmen was displayed. Light bruising to tail of spine; else a near fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR, JOHN REEVE.. Presentation Copy Signed And Inscribed By Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19208
- Title
- Floating World: Japan In The Edo Period (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, JOHN REEVE)
- Author
- Reeve, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0714124346
- ISBN 13
- 9780714124346
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Japan. Art. Japanese Art. Japan Floating World. Japan Edo Period. Ukiyo. Japanese History. History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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