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Tokyo: Sanseido Co., Ltd, 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56 plus 80 color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 20 plates printed in green from pressings, and a 4-p. index; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; covers spotted, else very good and sound.

London: George Allen. Fine. 1937. 1st UK. Hardback. 56 pp text, 80 varieties in color, 20 plates of leaves; Bkplate else fine .

Tokyo: The Sanseido Company, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Octavo. From Photographs. Tokyo: The Sanseido Company, Ltd., 1936. With the very scarce dust jacket. First edition, in the scarce jacket. Text is in English. Octavo; green cloth with gilt-stamped cover device and spine titling. Spotting to endpapers and light spotting to page fore edges, else a near fine book with no flaws on the profuse and wonderful plates. Rare dustjacket is also present, tattered and with several large chips missing, but essentially complete. A seminal horticultural first edition, made possibly even unique among available surviving copies by the presence of the well-worn dustjacket. Teizo Niwa's classic work - both scholarly and beautiful, rich in informed text and chock full of scintillating color plates of rare and exotic Chrysanthemums (80 color flower plates, 4 plates of petal impressions and 20 of leaf impressions) - Chrysanthemums of Japan is a requisite addition to a subject-specific… Read More