UKIYO-E. "THE FLOATING WORLD."
by [Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
San Francisc: Printed for the Book Club of Californi, 1962. [8]pp., followed by twenty-eight full-page colored prints, each print preceded by a leaf identifying the artist and a leaf of explanatory text. Folio. Original half cloth and patterned paper boards, paper label. Fine. In a plain red dust jacket, slightly faded. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, with the prints culled from the private collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn. The Grabhorns produced three such books, the first focusing on figure prints and the second on landscape. This final volume in the trilogy centers around portrait prints, or prints with people as their main subject. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 638.
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- Seller
- William Reese Company
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- WRCAM36263
- Title
- UKIYO-E. "THE FLOATING WORLD."
- Author
- [Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Book Club of Californi
- Place of Publication
- San Francisc
- Date Published
- 1962
Terms of Sale
William Reese Company
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About the Seller
William Reese Company
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Fine
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