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Tokyo: Paper Museum, 1976. Paperback. First issued in 1954. 106p., small attractive softbound in 7x5 inch decorated frenchfold wraps. Heel of spine panel has a quarter-inch chip or snag, a rear blank is oddly rumpled along the gutter, half-title bears an ultra-neat ownership stamp, everything else is in good order, in fact near-fine.

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/good with some damage,. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1954. 7.5 x 5.25 inches, 60 [2] pages, illustrations, and two paper specimens tipped in. Paper covered boards in original illustrated dust jacket. Ex-Library from Japan Tourist Information, Honolulu Office. Only library markings are a stamp on one of the free back endpapers a pocket on the inside of the back cover, with a card that shows no borrowing at all. Also has a typical Japanese publisher ticket DJ has some shelf wear at the edges and some loss at the top of the spine.

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/good with some damage,. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1954. 7.5 x 5.25 inches, 60 [2] pages, illustrations, and two paper specimens tipped in. Paper covered boards in original illustrated dust jacket. Ex-Library from Japan Tourist Information, Honolulu Office. Only library markings are a stamp on one of the free back endpapers a pocket on the inside of the back cover, with a card that shows no borrowing at all. Also has a typical Japanese publisher ticket DJ has some shelf wear at the edges and some loss at the top of the spine.

Hokuseido Press. Used - Very Good. TOKYO: Hokuseido Press 1954. Presumed 1st in English. Flexible hardcover 12mo 60 pgs. B/w photos. 2 paper specimens tipped in. Very good in a near good dust jacket. Light toning to half title pg and last pg. Small spot of soil to bottom corner of front pastedown and endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket soiled, edgeworn, chipped and has some creasing and small edge tears. (Papermaking, Crafts) Inquire if you need further information.

Hokuseido Press. CLEAN near fine 1954 first edition hardcover with fair dust jacket. 2 paper specimens tipped in. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1954.

Tokyo: The Dainihon Press, 1966. soft cover in dust jacket in removable clear vinyl protector., no flaws or wear. clean, no markings, tight binding.; english text. pre-isbn. 106pp., b/w illustrations, with a few in color.. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Paper covered boards, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 60,[1] pages, black and white in-text photographs, tipped in paper samples, marbled endpapers. Tiny crack (or indentation) at center of rear joint, publisher's label tipped into rear blank; dust jacket edge worn with chipping at spine ends and short tear at top rear edge with a small chip, faint damp stain at top rear corner, now in protective mylar cover. A brief history and overview of Japanese paper making.

Tokyo 1966, Dainihon. Stiff pictorial wrappers, as NEW copy, 106p., 2 color & 20 b.w. photos + 17 text line drawings, the best revised & enlarged edition, 13 x 18.3 cm. . *** **** *** . . SUPERB MONOGRAPH, TRACING THE ORIGINS OF HANDMADE PAPER . . . BY ITS 'INVENTOR' TS'AI LUNG . . . AND HOW IT INFLUENCED JAPANESE WASHI PAPERMAKING . * Excellent work on the 1300 year old tradition of how paper making was discovered by a Chinese Buddhist monk. How Japanese learned the method of making Washi [handmade mulberry & other fiber] papers. . * This excellent work covers the history of Japanese handmade papers, technique by hand, Suminagashi, "ink-floating" paper or marbled paper techniques, patterned, Ebosho & watermarked papers. . . Kiyofusa Narita was the Director of the Tokyo Paper Museum, and an important scholar on Washi, Japanese hand-made papers and paper makers. . *** CONDITION: . THE BEST EDITION with more text & plates than the First Edition. . A valuable… Read More

The Dainihon Press, 1966 Wraps. Small 8vo. Revised editon. 106 pp. Very good + in glassine. INSCRIBED by the author "For Mr. A.R. Darling" dated April 16, 1970. Tipped in color frontis photograph. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs and drawings. History of paper making in Japan and the life of Ts'ai who is credited with the invention of modern paper,. Inscribed by Author(s). Soft cover. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Paper Museum, 1979. Revised & Enlarged Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Red endpapers. Author Kiyofusa Narita is the Director of the Paper Museum. Tokyo, Japan. Text first introduces Chinese official Ts'ai Lung of the court of Emperor Ho of the Later Han Dynasty, c AD 105, and his techniques and methodology. Chinese methods were introduced to Japan (via Korea) in 610 and soon brittleness was solved through usage of kozo tree bark, laying the basis of Japan's papermaking industry. 6 chapters: 1, A Life of Ts'ai Lung, The Inventor of Paper; 2, A Brief History of Japanese Hand-Made Paper; 3, Making Paper by Hand in Japan; 4, Suminagashi, Ink-Floating Paper or Marbled Paper; 5. Patterned Paper, Ebosho & Watermarked Paper; and, The First Marchine-Made Paper in Japn.