The Mikado's Empire: Book I, History of Japan, From 660 B.C. to 1872 A.D.; Book II, Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, ... Chapters: Japan in 1883 and Japan in 1886 de William Elliot Griffis (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Harper & Brothers, 1890. Hardcover. Fair. Green cloth with gilt titles, bevelled edges, old spine marks. Usual markings to endpapers etc, front hinge is completely broken, otherwise interior ok--a reading copy. . Ex-Library. B&W Illustrations. 8vo Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

Berkeley CA: Stone Bridge Press. Fine. 2007. Reprint. Paperback. 193333018X . A clean, tight reprint of the 1883 original, issued with no evident alterations. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 660 BC - AD 1872; 7.3 X 5.3 X 1.4 inches; 512 pages .

Harper, 1876-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 625, [12]pp, ill. Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt. Soiling to spine and edges, chipping, loss to head of spine, rear board deatched. Front board cracked from text block, shaken. A working copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1906. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremities. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Occasional careful underlining with pencil. ; Volume one contains a history of Japan from 660 BC to 1872; volume two, personal experiences & observations, 1870-1875 and supplementary chapters bringing the story up to 1906. Consecutively paginated, volume two only ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 738 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Volume two only. Twelfth edition. Includes Book II ('Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, 1870-1874') and Book III ('Supplementary Chapters, Including History to the Beginning of 1912'). Illustrated in black-and-white. Boards and spine are marked, faded and worn. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. Lower edges of pages are stained. Minor creases and bumps throughout pages. Volume is cocked and pastedown hinges are partially split but binding remains intact. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Good. Used.

Paperback / softback. New.

Harper & Brothers, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Edition, with supplementary chapter. In brown cloth. 661 pages. Light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. .

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in olive cloth, spine panels lettered in gilt. Stated 11th edition, with 7 supplementary chapters. Cover cloth mildly soiled, with a few edge nicks to cloth, typically tanned text block edges with small ink blemish on lower fore-edge of Vol. II. Firm, square bindings, clean interiors. 738 pp., continuously paginated, illus..

NY: Harper & Brothers. Poor with no dust jacket. 1877. Second Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A binding copy. The rear cover is loose, and the spine is flapping in the wind. The contents are very good + to fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 635 pages .

Paperback / softback. New.