Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn

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Sale 371: Children's & Illustrated Books - Fine Press Books - Miniature Books - Books in All Fields (#371) 01/10/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #384Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn

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Sale 371: Children's & Illustrated Books - Fine Press Books - Miniature Books - Books in All Fields (#371) 01/10/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Title:

Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn

Author:

(Grabhorn, Edwin & Marjorie)

Place Published:

San Francisco

Publisher:

Book Club of California

Date Published:

1959

Description:

Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated with 56 collotype plates (52 in color) after Japanese wood-block prints. 15x10, quarter cloth & decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine label, remnants of original jacket. 1 of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.

First of the Grabhorn's Japanese print series. Magnificent reproductions of ukiyo-e prints, colored with blocks made by the Grabhorns & Mallette Dean. Prospectus laid in. BCC 103; GB 611.

Condition:

Plain paper jacket tattered and in several pieces; spine a bit faded; else fine.

Item#:

187844

Headline:

Figure Prints of Old Japan Grabhorn Press
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