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Publication Date: 1986
Seller: Avant Retro Books Sac Book Fair, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8x8 ivory colored boards. 47 pages of Okuda's painted ivory carvings. Inscribed and signed with his chop on the endpaper.Text in Japanese and English. Netsuke carver artist and painter. Michael Birch : ?Kodo is primarily a painter, and his unique carvings are, in a sense, his canvas. With a carefully controlled palette of lacquer colors, of dyes, gold leaf, platinum, and mother of pearl inlays ? skillfully applied in a variety of techniques ? together with meticulous carving, a true appreciation of form, and a microscopic knowledge of the anatomy of his subject." -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors., Signed.
Stiff Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Fine. 21 Plates by Kodo Okuda. Text in Japanese and English by Hiroshi Murata, Robert & Miriam Kinsey & Seiichi Sasaki. No date, circa 1981.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No date, circa 1986. Full of Plates by Kodo Okuda. Possibly signed by him (in Japanese)?.
Publication Date: 1986
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Association Member: RMABA
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. USO G2-This square hard cover is FINE. 47pp, no DJ. white 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Fukushima, Japan, 1981
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Oblong softcover. Text in English and Japanese. Includes a brief essay by Hiroshi Murata as well as an appreciation by Robert O. Kinsey and Miriam Kinsey. There is also a longer essay by Seichi Sasaki. Includes 8 color plates and 15 black and white illustrations of his stunningly beautiful ivory carvings of leaves. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Rather uncommon.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.