Hizakurige or Shank's Mare: Japan's Great Comic Novel of Travel and Ribaldry
Jippensha, Ikku, Illustrated by Hiroshige
From Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 18 January 2021
From Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 18 January 2021
About this Item
Charles E Tuttle Company, 1960,414 pages, endpapers withe map of the 53 stations from Kyoto to Edo. 55 hand-tipped colored plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, , appendix, notes. Binding: brown cloth with partial wrap around illustration on cloth, spine lettered in gilt., no dust jacket. Condition very good, the binding with some shelf wear and one old wormhole. Pages very clean and without any markings, tipped in illustrations with very strong color. a translation of the TOKAIDO volumes of HIZAKURIGE, Japan's great comic novel of tavel & ribaldry by Ikku Jippensha (1765-1831). Illustrated with full-color reproductions of a rare version of the famed series of woodblock prints "The fifty-three stages of the Tokaido", by HIROSHIGE ANDO (1797-1858). 55 hand-tipped coloured plates (including frontispiece), numerous black & white text illustrations, coloured endpaper map, appendix, notes; small med. 8ov; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and upper board in black, with inlaid pictorial cream fabric wrap-around printed in colour; top edges blue/grey. Seller Inventory # 2121C
Bibliographic Details
Title: Hizakurige or Shank's Mare: Japan's Great ...
Publisher: Charles Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
Publication Date: 1960
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Hiroshige
Condition: very good
Dust Jacket Condition: no dj
Edition: stated 1. Edition.
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