The bound volumes comprise four separately issued stories in each, one is sewn wrappers, the other in cloth; the other stories are in wrappers or this boards. Illustrated with color woodblocks.
First bound volume comprises:
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 1: Momotaro.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 2: The Tongue Cut Sparrow.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 3: Battle of the Monkey and the Crab.
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Japanese Fairy Tales. Second Series. No. 3. The Broken Images.
The front wrapper of the first and the rear wrapper of the last are worn with loss; the double leaves on which it is printed have been cut open.
The Second bound volume comprises:
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 9 The Serpent with Eight Heads.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 10. The Matsuyama Mirror.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 11. The Hare of Inaba.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 12. The Cub's Triumph.
Spine rubbed, head chipped.
Also, in slightly larger format and printed on regular paper:
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Shitakiri Suzume
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 8: Urashima.
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Japanische Marchen: Der Spiegel zu Matsunama
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Nedzumi no Yome-iri. (disbound, worn, possibly incomplete).
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Japanese Postage Stamps and Cards, Assorted.
