Wheeler Post Collected By (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edited by Harold G. Henderson. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Previous owner's name and address on half-title page, else very good in a very good (age darkened) dust jacket.

hardbound. Selection from the tales of the Japanese Storytellers, collected by Post Wheeler in the Ho-Dan-Zo in the early 20th-Century; the Japanese Storytellers travelled Japan in the continuation of a great literary oral tradition; Wheeler served as an American Foreign Service officer in the period when the storytellers were still widely practicing their profession; one of the limited first edition (750 copies); half-cloth with red titling to front and spine, and Weatherhill motif blind-embossed to front board, decorative endpapers, title page and story headings throughout; light offset from text decorations, toning to text block, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper edgeworn, lightly tanned to spine, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 139pp. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. jacket design by Yoshie Noguchi (illustrator).…