Gentles Margaret Curator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in rust-colored heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Compiled by the Curator of the Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese Prints, Margaret O. Gentles, published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965, Top edge gilt. vi + 307 pp. with eight color plates and 527 total illustrations, the remainder being black-and-white, numbered by artist. Housed in matching, nearly As New condition board slipcase, simple but elegant, featuring black cover lettering and design flourish. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California, a man known fully to have had exquisite taste in art books, to have bought from the best, and to have curated his collection with mostly only stellar condition volumes. Represents such stellar Japanese artists as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Harushige, Kuninobu, Tosen, Masunobu, Mitsunobu, Komai Yoshinobu, Komatsuken, Minko, Ran-U, Shichu, Isoda Koryusai, Kitao Shigemasa, Ishikawa Toyomasa, Okabe Nangaku, Uchimasa, Utagawa Toyoharu and Utagawa Toyonobu. Else and withal, a gift-quality condition copy, lovely to look at and contemplate.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Brand-new, still in its original cardboard packing box, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Sterling condition hardcover copy, massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in rust-colored heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing neither shelf- nor edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Compiled by the Curator of the Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese Prints, Margaret O. Gentles, published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965, Top edge gilt. vi + 307 pp. with eight color plates and 527 total illustrations, the remainder being black-and-white, numbered by artist. Housed in matching, New condition cardboard slipcase, simple but elegant, featuring black cover lettering and design flourish. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California, a man known fully to have had exquisite taste in art books, to have bought from the best, and to have curated his collection with mostly only stellar condition volumes. Represents such stellar Japanese artists as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Harushige, Kuninobu, Tosen, Masunobu, Mitsunobu, Komai Yoshinobu, Komatsuken, Minko, Ran-U, Shichu, Isoda Koryusai, Kitao Shigemasa, Ishikawa Toyomasa, Okabe Nangaku, Uchimasa, Utagawa Toyoharu and Utagawa Toyonobu. Else and withal, a gift-quality condition copy, lovely to look at and contemplate.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.