Warrington Frank (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Covers scuffed and edge worn, small tears along spine edges, spine ends frayed. Some pen markings inside front cover, hinges cracked, some signatures loose, pages lightly browned and worn.

Condition: New.

An ephemeral textbook for Meiji Japan's growing crop of English-language learners. While this is a fifth edition, published two years after the first, all editions are surprisingly elusive institutionally. We have traced one copy of the first at the National Diet Library, while the Osaka Prefectural Library possesses a copy of the fourth or fifth. The contents presents texts from Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Parker and others, as well as situational dialogues with strong nationalist and moral overtones. Frank Warrington Eastlake (1858-1905) was an American raised in Japan and Hong Kong who wrote a plethora of works on Japanese and Chinese language and history, including a number of dictionaries and phrase books. He was said to be fluent in 23 languages and spent the majority of his life in Japan teaching English. Small octavo. With folding frontispiece. Text in English and Japanese. Original illustrated wrappers, spine lettered in yellow, front cover lettered in white and yellow, rear wrapper lettered in Japanese in brown. Losses to spine, wrappers bright with a few creases, rear inner hinge expertly repaired, frontispiece and text clean. A very good copy of a fragile work.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 378 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.86 inches. This item is printed on demand.