Japanese Toys: Playing with History
by Sakamoto, Kazuya (text); Kiyoshi Sonobe (photographs); Charles A. Pomeroy (translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha and Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc, 1965. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Kiyoshi Sonobe. Quarto. 516pp. Index. Photo illustrated dust jacket with white spine lettered in black. Blue silk, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with nearly 400 full-page gravure illustrations - and 12 color plates of toys from various regions of Japan, plus numerous text drawings. "There are explanatory introductions and maps for each region described, and notes on each photograph". Translated and adapted by Charles A. Pomeroy. A fine discussion of this extraordinary and rich art-form. Dust jacket with some light soiling and small chips & small closed tears at head of spine, but still in very good + condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50712
- Title
- Japanese Toys: Playing with History
- Author
- Sakamoto, Kazuya (text); Kiyoshi Sonobe (photographs); Charles A. Pomeroy (translator)
- Illustrator
- Kiyoshi Sonobe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English language edition
- Publisher
- Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha and Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Japan, Decorative art, dolls, Japanese Folklore, Japanese folk art, children's toys, cultural objects, papier-mache, porcelain, Photography, toys
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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