Search Results: the tao of sex a by akira ishihara howard

Harper & Row, Publishers, January 1970. Paper Back . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate shelfwear to covers, including creasing. Spine has creasing. Textblock stamped. Pages yellowed, but clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. Paperback. INSCRIBED by Levy to G. Legman. Foxing to edges, and some notes to margins in red pen. Else, very good. 325pp., intro., history of the text illusts by Shojiro Takata, history of Chinese medicine in Japan, dialogues on Chinese medicine and acupuncture, index of sex terms, index of medical terms, annotated bib., general index. A highly readable translation of the sexological sections found in the Japanese medical encyclopedia "The Essence of Medical Prescriptions". This remarkable 10th Century work has been hailed as one of the treasures of world literature. Signed 'A translation of one of the basic texts. For G. Legman from H.S. Levy.' Dated Yokohama, Japan, September 11, 1975. Includes some annotations in red ballpoint pen.