The Soul of Japan

Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press, 1930. Beautiful book, bound in linen-backed handmade paper boards; first flyleaf partially glued to front pastedown; else fine, protected by lightly worn and browned dustwrapper. First edition. One of 210 copies printed, the entire edition. A presentation copy, inscribed in extremely lovely brown ink-script to Llewellyn Jones, U.S. writer and literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post, one of the signatories to Humanist Manifesto I, from Joseph Ishill, typographer and publisher of the Oriole Press. Includes four-page prospectus laid into book. Only a few copies were sold; all others destroyed because the author, on a lecture tour of Japan, wrote soon after publication that nearly all of his former ideas about Japan were mistaken. Printed ans set by hand with the twelve point Garamond; line cut on the title page after a drawing by the Japanese artist Yosai; head piece and Goudy initials. Two-color. A beautiful, well-preserved book. In plastic sleeve. Translated from the French.. Association Signed By Publisher. Limited Edition of 210 Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 4to.