Japanese Costume and the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition [SIGNED & Insc Author] de Minnich, Helen Benton - 1963

Rutland: Tuttle, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Royal 8vo, cloth in publisher's cardboard slipcase, in homemade dust jacket. Book about fine, slipcase VG. 374 pp, illustrated, some in color.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/poor. 8vo. 374 pp. Bound in full purple and white cloth, stamped in silver on cover and spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color fold-out frontispiece illustrations, full-color and black and white illustrations throughout. Very Good+ small stamp in red ink to rear pastedown, minor age-toning to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean and sound, binding bright and tight. dust jacket is in Poor condition, with large tear and creases to lower half of front cover and tears to head of spine and top edge of rear cover, overall rubbing and wear, in protective mylar wrapper.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1963. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall OFFICEDESK-Near fine larger hardcover, minor edge wear in a nf jacket. Slipcase is about very good. silver w/red & black lettering .

Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket and Good slipcase. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. 374pp. Purple and white cloth in dust jacket and cardboard slipcase. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Fold-out frontispiece and additional color and black and white illustrations throughout. There is a crease to the frontispiece. Jacket is price clipped at top and bottom of front flap and shows some tears and edgewear. Some soiling to the slipcase.

Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Publ, 1963. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. near fine in near fine dust jacket, enclosed in publisher's illustrated cardboard slipcase; lite creasing/wrinkling to rear free endpaper, minor soiling to front flap of jacket else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket with slipcase

North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.: Tuttle Publishing Company. FINE clean Hard cover like NEW with like dust jacket in near fine slip case. Large book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Fine Like New. Hard Cover With NF Slip Case. Second Printing. 1986.

New York: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1963.. Monograph.

Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 374 Pp. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING 1963. "THE PICTURE I WOULD LIKE TO PAINT IS NOT JUST THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE COSTUME BUT THE PANORAMIC HUMAN BACKGROUND AGAINST WHICH THAT HISTORY IS TRACED... MY DESIRE IS TO PASS ON TO OTHER WESTERNERS A WARMER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE AS IT HAS BEEN WOVEN AND DYED IN THE BRIGHT SILKEN FABRICS THAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS PRODUCED TO SUPERLATIVELY AND WORN SO HANDSOMELY--AND LOVED SO WELL." ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS HALF/FULL PAGE COLOR AND BLACK/WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. DESCRIPTION: WHITE/EGGPLANT PUBLISHERS CLOTH HARDBOUND, GILT STAMPED TITLE ON SPINE, COLOR AND BLACK/WHITE FULL AND 1/2 PLATES THROUGHOUT BOOK, COLOR ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET. DIMENSIONS: 10 1/4" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/2." CONDITION: FINE, STRONG/SQUARE SPINE, CRISP CLEAN AND BRIGHT TEXT PAGES. DUST… Leer más