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House of 10,000 Pleasures: A Modern Study of the Geisha and of the Streetwalker of Japan
by HARRIS, Sara
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 273pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, small tear at spine foot, else Very Good or better.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33241
- Title
- House of 10,000 Pleasures: A Modern Study of the Geisha and of the Streetwalker of Japan
- Author
- HARRIS, Sara
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Social History; Sexuality; Japan;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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