Japanese Festivals
by Bauer, Helen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition stated. Large octavo, black cloth spine over pumpkin colored cloth covered boards. Map endpapers 224 pp. A complete guide and calendar to the many national and local religious festivals of Japan including Buddhist, Shinto and animist observations including flower viewings, New Year traditions, Bon and other ancestor worship related ceremonies. Includes extensive history and traditions. Illustrated wtih black and whtie drawings and a section of full color photographs of ceremonies and celebrants. A very tight, clean, bright,unmarked volume with bright spine titles and fresh boards. In a tight, crisp, sharp, clean unclipped dust jacket with two very short very closed edgetears (virtually invisible beneath mylar protector). Fine in very near fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08053
- Title
- Japanese Festivals
- Author
- Bauer, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- JAPAN, JAPANESE, CULTURE, CULTURAL, STUDIES, ORIENTAL, BAUER, FESTIVAL, HOLIDAY, CELEBRATION, DANCE, RELIGION, RELIGIOUS, NATIONAL, TRADITIONAL, FOLK, PEOPLE, PARADE, GODS, ANIMISM, SHINTO, BUDDHISM, BUDDHIST, CONFUCIAN, FOODS, DECORATION, MUSIC, MUSICAL,
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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