Search Results: hokusai sketchbooks by michener james a

Tuttle Publishing, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tuttle Publishing, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Vermont & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1958. 286pgs. 187 full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations.Clay and black cloth with Japanese letters. on the front panel, Bright gilt lettering on the spine. there is offsetting to the preliminary page, light spot on the front free endpaper, Dampstain on the lower right corner of the front panel, otherwise internally free of wear. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has chips on the upper extremities. Housed in a Cardboard box with a paper label, which has been reinforced.. Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by Sesshu Toyo and other styles of Chinese painting.. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Illus. by Hokusai. 10.2 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches .

Rutland, VT: Charles A. Tuttle, 1968. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, clipped price; 286 clean, unmarked pages/index; sans slipcase. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by B/w. 4 vo.

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Cardboard slipcase near new, light soil/shelf wear.
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From flyleaf: Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock printed volumes entitled Hokusai Manga, or Hokusai's Sketches from Life, which was destined to be one of the most popular art publications ever issued anywhere in the world. With its rich tapestry of life as it was lived in the boisterous Tokyo of the day and its magical evocation of the beauties of the Japanese countryside, it was an immediate best-seller in Japan, and then, upon the West's discovery of Japanese art, went on to win the hearts of people everywhere. It is from this amazing book, amazing both in execution and breadth of scope, that the… Read More

CETuttle, 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. 286 pages in excellent condition. 187 beautiful full-page plates and hundreds of text decorations. Brown/blue cloth covered boards (silk?) with gilt titles on the spine. Japanes characters on a white label on the front cover. One corner lightly bumped, fading at the head/tail of spine. Beige, illustrated DJ with black titles. Light wear at corners and edges. Small chip at both head/tail of spine. Price clipped. VG+/VG. Comes in a brown cardboard slipcase with illustrated, yellow label. Edges darkened. Conditionis GOOD.. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2.

Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 1960. NF/NF/NF; 286 pages; First edition, fifth printing; near Fine in mauve silk cloth above black silk cloth; titled in gilt and decorated with a Fine paper label, paler mauve endpapers; small faded spot at bottom of backstrip corresponding with a small chip on the near Fine dustjacket; chip still attached by the jacket's laminate and now held in position by mylar jacket cover; corner clipped but U.S. price intact; all in a near Fine original cardboard slipcase with Fine paper label wrapped around three sides, sticker residue at one corner. Quite an astonishing volume of woodblock prints along with Michener's knowledgeable text.. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rutland, Vermont / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. Third printing. Quarto. Page and cloth edges lightly dampstained, slight sunning at the crown, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with a small nick and tear at the crown, lacking the slipcase. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

Hardcover. Good. EARLY EDITION WITH REAL WOOD-BLOCK PRINT. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Bound in dark grey and tan silk-covered boards with Japanese paper title label and gilt lettering. With 4-page wood-block insert. Some minor wavering to a few pages else very good overall condition. No markings, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959. 286 pages including index. Dust Jacket is clean and price clipped. In Slipcase with wraparound label. Slipcase has tiny wear at edges. Book includes two inserts printed from actual woodblocks. 187 full page two-color plates and hundreds of text illustrations. Printed Japanese style, on double folded paper. In publisher's cardboard slipcase. Michener edited the book, wrote a lengthy essay on Hokusai--often called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Orient--and informative captions for every plate. New insights into the quality of Hokusai's art and the Manga: "Hokusai's Sketches from Life"--a look at Japanese history, customs, superstitions, psychology, life, pleasures, botany, zoology, architecture, agriculture, astronomy--the book is an encyclopedia of Japan! Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. Second printing. Illustrated, many in two colors. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tiny scuff at head of spine panel). Inscribed by the author. Publisher's decorated card slipcase (some toning to cardboard). Second printing. Illustrated, many in two colors. 286 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title: "Centerville, Md. 1980 To Gene Hafner, this lovely book, signed for a book lover, James A. Michener". Groseclose A.013