The Essential Japanese House: Craftsmanship, Function, and Style in Town and Country by Itoh, Teiji (text) & Yukio Futagawa (photographs) - 1967

NY: Harper & Row. Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. One very small spot of soil on the upper front, owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Includes a short note from Melvin Arnold (head of Harper & Row) , gifting the book to the owner, architect Walter Gordon. A large, heavy book, postage will be at cost. ; B&W Photographs; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 419 pages .

Tokyo / New York: John Weatherhill, Inc. / Harper & Row, 1967. Hardbound. VG+/VG (light sunning to edges w/ crinkling to spine top. bump & crease to lower, front corner. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; edge-wear w/ chip & tear to back upper edge; rubbing to corners & spine ends; flapped chipped). oatmeal cloth boards w/ brown embossed illustration; brown quarter cloth spine w/ gilt printing. BW illustrated dust jacket. 419 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. Oversize. Lower textblock, at spine has a red star stamp. A nice copy. A copy of this important title on Japanese domestic architecture. Profuse illustrations by the photographer Yukio Futagawa.

John Weatherhill / Harper and Row. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Oversize hardcover in dustjacket. Clean Copy Throughout. Square spine and tight binding. Dustjacket is clean and bright with two 1/2 inch closed tears and light edgewear ( covered in mylar). Photos upon request

Tokyo / NY:: John Weatherhill / Harper & Row,. Very Good. 1967. Hardcover. Black and white photographs by Yukio Futagawa throughout. First edition thus. Some light shelf wear and aging to cloth covered boards, else very good in brown and tan buckram. Binding is solid. No dust jacket. ; 419 pages .