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A Shoal of Fishes
by Ando Hiroshige
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
: Japanese leporello bound accordion style binding with bright red cloth boards in a pale yellow carboard original slipcase. Slipcase has white label on the front with black text to the front and spine with minor blemishes – front upper left where price tag might have been removed and a dent at the top of rear cover. Red cloth boards are in near fine condition with only one small white to the front and a small stain in the lower right corner on the rear board. All corners are sharp with no wear or bumping. The boards are perfectly attached to the accordion pages with no tears and the folding text block is straight and solid with no damage. The interior pages are clean with no tears, chips, creases, or previous owner marks. Contains twenty of Hiroshige's drawings of fish decorated with poetry in Japanese, other text is in English. Following print reproductions is an identification guide with small b&w illustrations of the relevant print and English translations of the poems. First Edition. Unpaginated but approximately 54 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Books and Such, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CLA212500083
- Title
- A Shoal of Fishes
- Author
- Ando Hiroshige
- Illustrator
- Ando Hiroshige
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- Unpaginated
- Size
- H – 10-1/2” W – 7-1/2”
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Japan, Japanese art, Japanese history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Artistic Endevors;
Terms of Sale
Old Books and Such, LLC
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About the Seller
Old Books and Such, LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Fort Collins, Colorado
About Old Books and Such, LLC
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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- Fine
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