Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 2nd printing, 1965. In Good slipcase. (Japanese folk songs) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1963
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. woodlock illustrations by Kitao Masami (Keisai) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. 203 pp. with color illustrations. First Edition, 1963. In Very Good+ Illustrated heavy card Slipcase with minor edge wear, and lightly age-toned spine. Original publisher's wax-paper dust jacket with small chips along top edge, and age-toned spine, and near Pristine white paper-band wrapped around covers. Only the slightest wear to boards with partial fading to spine, two small chips to fore-edge margin of tissue- protected fold-out map at front, and faintly age-toned text block edges, else Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 4.75" x 7.5". Purple quarter-cloth with textured-red paper-covered boards, white paper title plate red and black lettering to front board and spine, and color illustrated endpapers. Songs: Kyushu; Shikoku; Chugoku; Kinki; Southern Chubu; Northern Chubu; Kanto; Tohuku; Historical Perspective; notes works mentioned. chronological table, Size: Octavo. Book.
Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1963
Seller: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Signed by the translator on the half-title page: "Eric Sackheim." Laid in is a handwritten and signed note by the translator's father, Ben Sackheim, who ran a collectible books and graphics company in NYC at the time; also laid in is a folded pamphlet from Ben on "My Son, the Folk Singer," that Ben apparently sent along with the book as a holiday gift for important customers. The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends unbumped. An unmarked glassine sheet that is many-times folded, and doesn't exactly fit, is the dust jacket though it is unclear whether it is original to the book; Mylar protected. Signed by Author(s).