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Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, c. 1902. silk crepe. Good. 6 x 8 in. Silk crepe paper. Color woodblocks on cover and throughout text. Condition is GOOD ; silk sewn binding is broken on the lower one, holding well on the upper. Front cover has some faint spots and loss to edges. Rear cover has lost part of the lower corner and has several worn spots with small holes. Text is clean and the color prints very good, with a little creasing just at edges. Fic. RGR.

Tokyo Japan: T. Hasegawa, Publisher and Art Printer, 1900. Soft cover. Fair. Soft cover book in fair condition. No date stated, c. 1900. Printed on chirimen (crepe paper). Staining to front and back wrappers, front wrap coming away from binding. Small rips and stains to first few pages, previous owner's name in pen to title page. Illustrations bright, all pages present. Scarce. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.

Livorno : Sillabe, 2008., 2008. Book. As New. Soft cover. 203 pp. : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm. ; ISBN: 9788883474781; 8883474783 ; OCLC: 298180010 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Catalogue of the collection./ Text in English and Italian./ Stibbert Museum, Florence (Tuscany)./ Includes bibliographical references. ; facsimile texts include: The tongue cut sparrow / Takejiro Hasegawa; David Thompson; Eitaku -- The story of Matsuyama kagami / Kate James (Mrs T. H. James); Hongzhi Lin; Takejiro Hasegawa -- The rat's plaint : an old l egend / Archibald John Little; Takejiro Hasegawa -- Chin chin kobakama / Lafcadio Hearn; Takejiro Hasegawa -- The old woman who lost her dumpling [Based on: Jizo jodo] / Lafcadio Hearn; Takejiro Hasegawa -- The fisher-boy Urashima [Urashima Taro ] / Basil Hall Chamberlain; Eitaku -- Battle of the monkey and the crab [Sarukani kassen] / David Thompson; Eitaku -- The old man & the devils / James Curtis Hepburn -- The mouse's wedding… Read More

"The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling" - Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 24, Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn was published in Tokyo by T. Hasegawa, Publisher and Art Printer, in about 1902. It consists of 12 folded-over crepe leaves, including cover, printed on both sides. There are beautiful color woodblock prints accompanying the text. The story is a fairy tale of a wizened old woman who falls down a hole, like Alice, into a strange land while she is reaching for her dropped dumpling and is enslaved by a man-eating monster. The story, as may be expected, ends happily.
The book measures approximately 5 ½ x 7 ½ inches and is bound with silk strings. The pages are slightly tanned, but the text is clear and the woodblock prints are brightly colored. The rear cover is creased and has some edge chipping. The overall condition of the book is good.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the front and back covers of the book, a two-page spread showing the beginning of the story, and… Read More

Tokyo: T Hasegawa, Publisher & Art-Printer, [ca 1902]. 12mo, [24] pages (including covers) printed in color on crepe paper on 12 folded sheets, stabbed & tied with silk thread, illustrated throughout. Blanck/ BAL 7937C. Margins lightly sunned, briefly soiled, modest edge wear, otherwise very goodThe publisher's address as given in the colophon in Japanese (p. [23]) is 17 Kami Negishi which, as noted in OCLC (citing the BAL), is one of three Tokyo-only printings but preceded by an issue with the address provided as 38 Honmura-cho.

Tokyo: T Hasegawa, Publ/Art Printer. FINE book. Japanese Fairy Tale Series no 24. Stab sown binding.. [1902]. 1st edition.. Softcover. FINE book. 1/2" of spine top worn, NO OTHER FLAWS. BAL 7937a variant. BAL "General Notes" show this a 1st or early printing. . Bright & clean as new. No foxing, aging or any other flaw. Go to Biblio for five "Old Woman" pix. Printed on flexible crepe paper (seems more like cloth) and measures 7.7x5.25". .

Tokyo:: T. Hasegawa, Publisher & Art Printer,, [1898, 1902, 1903]. publisher's wrappers illustrated in color, sewn Japanese style as issued. The tree volumes are preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise.. Beautiful unworn copies with very slight bumping at corners.. 12mo,. Illustrations in colours.. Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Cats: BAL 7930, Printing A (no priority). Dumpling: BAL 7937, early printing. Chin: BAL 7939, Printing C (no priority). Printed on crepe paper. Japanese Fairy Tale Series Nos. 23, 24, and 25.

Tokyo, T.Hasegawa / Y.Nishinomiya, ca.1930. 8°, je 12 Bl., durchgehend illustriert (Abzüge von den Orig. Holzstöcken), Krepppapierhefte in Schlupfschuber m 2 Schliessen., Rücken d. Schubers min. beschienen, Deckeltitel stockfleckig. Die Hefte tadellos. 3 Hefte (The Boy Who Drew Cats; Chin-Chin Kobakama; The Fountain of Youth) erschienen bei T.Hasegawa ,2 (The Goblin Spider; The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling) beim Nachfolgerverlag: Y.Nishinomiya. 010

Tokyo: Takejiro Hasegawa. 5 Volumes; in the traditional Japanese wraparound case with bone/ivory clasps; printed on crepe paper double leaves, folded and bound in Japanese style; the fairy tales are rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn, and are printed in color by hand from Japanese wood blocks.~~The folding case shows some wear and spotting; the Fairy Tales are Fine; they are lacking the publisher's glassine sleeves.

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1915. Overall fear fine.. Beautifully intact set, scarce complete with original case and rice paper sleeves, with vivid color illustrations on fresh, crinkling crepe paper. Included are the following titles (all large paper copies): "The Boy Who Drew Cats"; "The Goblin Spider"; "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling"; "The Fountain of Youth"; and "Chin-Chin Kobakama." 5 volumes measuring 7.75'' x 5.5'' each. Original pictorial crepe paper wrappers with silk ties bound fukuro-toji style. Housed in publisher's folding cloth case with pictorial lining and original clasps. Illustrated in color throughout. Pages range [16] - [22], including printed versos of wrappers. Spine of slipcase faded; the two joints on either side of the backstrip neatly reinforced. Books with some light waves to text blocks, else bright. All ties intact.

Cloth Chemise, with bone stays or fasteners. FIne. With the original tissue sleeves well-preserved! N.d., but the last of the titles, "The Fountain of Youth", was issued in 1922, and so we would date the set to the early 1920s. 19.5 by 14 cm.

TPhiladelphia/Tokyo: Macrae Smith Company/ T. Haegawa, Publisher & Art Printer, 1930. Soft cover. Very Good. No date. c. 1930. [190 x 135mm]. 5 volumes in the original illustrated crepe paper wrappers, bound by light green silk string. Very light foxing to the spines and to the decorative paper lining the original folding box, else the volumes are fresh and clean. The folding blue cloth box very faded around the edges, the two bone catches present, the lettered spine of the box is heavily faded and worn, the joints cracked but still in one piece and complete. Early English edition of the Japanese Fairy Tales translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The only mention of the American publisher is on the paper title label on the box, the volumes are printed by T. Hasegawa, Tokyo. A very nice set.