The Art of the Japanese Screen
by Grilli, Elise
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1970 First edition. Folio. With 159 illustrations, 48 in full color. Bound in decorative green, orange and purple cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Rear bottom corner bumped, very light shelf wear to bootom edge. A fine copy in very lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. Head of jacket spine is chipped with a small portion missing from the edge of the jacket's front cover. A study of Japanese design. .
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 447
- Title
- The Art of the Japanese Screen
- Author
- Grilli, Elise
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Weatherhill, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York and Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Asia History Art Photography
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- Folio
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