Shogo Koide (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An odd, unusual title indeed, uncommon here in the U.S., there being no additional copies available on-line currently. An apparent hagiography of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln designed for use by Japanese students. Beautifully illustrated paper over boards, wholly in Japanese including kanji characters. Front pastedown has written in it, "To Children of Pasadena From Shogo Koide Chairman Pasadena-Mishima Committee, Author of This Book." 115 pp., tri-tone illustrations through, text and illustrations, Abraham Lincoln from boy to man, farmer to U.S. President.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

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Condition: Fine. Size: 22cm.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: first cover.

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Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

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Condition: Fine. Number of volumes: Box first.

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Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 297 pages Size: A5 Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 297 pages Size: A5 Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

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Condition: Fine. Number of books: first obi box.

First edition of this adaptation of Ruth & Latrobe Carroll's Luck of the Roll and Go (1935). The pictorial front board is modelled on the dust jacket of the English edition, and Koide states in his preface that the illustrations were drawn by Ruth Carroll herself. The story follows a kitten called Luck (here translated as Tora) as he stows away on the Roll and Go bound for Antarctica. He makes friends with huskies but fails to do so with the penguins, experiences a glacier break up, flies over the South Pole, runs from the jaws of a killer whale, and discovers a fire set in the ship's hold by some rats. Koide Shogo (1897-1990) was a prolific author and translator of children's literature. In 1939 he was awarded a children's literature prize for his short story Tabo, following the adventures of an unlucky boy by the same name. Later he served as the chairman of the Japanese Association of Writers for Children from 1966 to 1972. His other translations of Western works include Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer, Jules Verne's Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Octavo. Vignette of a ship printed in green on title page, illustrations throughout; text in Japanese. With publisher's stamp on colophon and single page of publisher's advertisements at rear as issued. Original pictorial boards, spine and front board lettered in brown, green pictorial endpapers. Contemporary signatures of one Noguchi Takeko on front board and of one Noguchi Kazuko and on rear board. Spine toned, ends and extremities rubbed, tips a little bumped, contents browned at edges as expected: a very good copy.…