Oriental Humour

Tokyo, Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1959. Rare first printing published in 1959. Fine in a fine dust jacket with protective mylar cover housed in the original publisher's rare cardstock slipcase titled in black with publishers seal on back. Blyth's classic English-language work on Japanese, Chinese & Korean humor from all periods (India is not included). Full orange cloth with black… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket & slipcase. Mustard cloth boards with black printed titles to spine. Full page, full color illustrations protected with tissue guards throughout. Frontis illustration, Man Playing the Samisen, in full color & protected with a tissue guard. Chronological chart of Japanese Humor tipped-in. Dust… Read more about this item

[Tokyo 1963], Hokuseido. Mustard cloth, very good, 582p., 35 color & b.w. illustrations, biblioigraphy, index, very crisp copy, dust jacket mylar protector, & original slipcase.RARE! Classic work on Japanese, Chinese & Korean humor from all periods. Covering poetry, ghost stories, Liehtse, proverbs, Taoism, Zen, short stories, Chinese influence on Japan, mod- ern & old Senryu, Yanagidaru &c. Excellent reference source.… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1959 First Printing (stated) in dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, plates & captioned tissue guards excellent, bump to spine tail, toning to page block edge, closed tear to jacket at spine fold, minor creased edge wear otherwise, a clean tight very nice copy (dj in mylar p[rotector); thick 8vo; (xii) 582pp indexed… Read more about this item

The Hokuseido Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hokuseido Press, 1959. Octavo. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black with illustrated endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light toning and a few spots on page ends. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1968 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A little shelf wear to yellow cloth hardcover. Otherwise a solid, unmarked volume. Index. xii, 582 pp..

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1959. Includes a look at Taoism, Zen, demonology, oriental poetry and the characters of the ancient and modern Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese. Japanese verses quoted are given in Kanji and kana, often in Romanji, and in English translation. Orange cloth with black lettering in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 26 plates with tissue guards, plus illustrations in the… Read more about this item

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1968. Hardcover. boxed, 582pp. Fine / minor chipping to otherwise bright & crisp dust jacket / lightly soiled box with two small breaks, otherwise very good. ***photographs available***.

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1968.. Fourth printing. "This book will hardly give the reader an accurate idea of the national character or way of thinking of the present-day CChinese, Koreans, and Japanese. The book intends to do something quite different and far more important, to show how certain peoples have seen and seen into the world of man and… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan:: Hokuseido Press, , 1959.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good only dustjacket - a solid, clean copy in orange cloth with just a hint of dampness/crinkling to the upper edges of the first few pages, previous owner's name, in a fragile dustacket with rubbing along the folds, and one fold partially split (now protected… Read more about this item

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 582 pages. Third printing. Hardcover in light cardboard slipcase (slipcase is quite worn, with a few chips and splits). "Those who read this book just for the humour found on every page of it will also get to know something of Taoism, Zen, demonology, oriental… Read more about this item