Published by Heian International, , stated 1st printing; translated by D. T. Ooka, shiny boards with monkey and crab, green enpapers with crabs, in jacket identical to boards, 4to; np., Union City, California, 1985
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
/Tsutomu Murakami, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good in Good Plus jacket; book with bumped corners, clean unwrinkled pages, messy erasure of gift inscription on green endpaper; somewhat rumpled jacket with 5 inch tear, small tears on corners and rubbed spine ends; unclipped, no price. Picture Book hardback. A Japanese fairy tale retold on double-page paintings. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Tsutomu Murakami, illustrator.
Language: English
Published by Hokuseido press, 1938
Seller: old aberdeen bookshop, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
US$ 50.47
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Small format. Apricot woven paper with paper label. Book has twine binding. Copyright date 1938 (no other info.). Inside of front cover has the cartoon animal designs. Text very clean, not inscribed, includes a folding colour illustration. Very scarce in this format.
Seller: Little Journeys Bookshop, Mansfield, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Union City CA 1985 Heian. 10 1/2" pictorial HB. Heian's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. front flap of dust jacket has two ink check marks on series-title list, otherwise Fine in Fine jacket.