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Pageant of Japanese Art, Vol 3, Sculpture
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Toto Bunka Co, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pageant of Japanese Art, Vol 3, Sculpture, edited by Staff Members of the Tokyo National Museum, large folio 14.5 inches in height, beautiful book, heavily illustrated with 50 plates, 118 pages of text heavily illustrated with black and white photographs, quality publication, Book is at least Very Good Plus, to near Fine, 3 small tape ghosts on first free page and laid in plate list, else Fine, ultra clean grey cloth boards with brown/white/red titles to front board, very clean spine with bright brown titles. No previous owner bookplate or writing. Jacket is Very Good Plus, some light edge sunning and very light soiling, protected in a new mylar sleeve. An ultra clean and most presentable First Edition at a bargain price. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001914
- Title
- Pageant of Japanese Art, Vol 3, Sculpture
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Toto Bunka Co
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Japanese Art, Japanese Sculpture, Tokyo National Museum
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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