Itoh Teiji Text (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Ed. Thus. 244pp., Pictorial full colour photographic dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, tan cloth boards with green text to spine, cream endpapers, illust. title pages, col. & b/w plts. & text ills., full & dbl. page col. photographs, diags., drawings, maps, plans, bibliog., index. The Gardens of Japan is by far the most delightful and informative volume in the field. With 96 pages of superb color, it is in every detail a fitting celebration of nature's beauty, joy, and meaning. Size: Large Quarto. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. With essays by Yukio Mishima and others. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Translated from the Japanese. Fifth printing thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine (some light soiling along the top edge of the front panel, scraped along the front flap fold) dust jacket. ; 290 pages.…

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

dj. First English Language Edition. First printing of the English-language edition (first published in Japan under the title Nihon no Minka, 1962). Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; wood veneer endpapers; 419pp; illus. Red ink remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $25.00 on front flap); publisher's price crossed through, with hand-written remainder price of $10. Else just lightly worn, Very Good to Near Fine. Handsome copy of this essential and sought-after work on the traditional domestic architecture of Japan, a sequel of sorts to the authors' Roots of Japanese Architecture (1963). Teiji Itoh, author of the original Japanese text, completely re-wrote the work for a Western audience.…