The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris First American Consul General and Minister to Japan. Introduction and Notes ny Mario Emilio Cosenza. [Limited Edition in Special Binding].

[Limitation Statement]: "This first edition is limited to twenty-five hundred copies of which one hundred are numbered and specially bound This copy being No. 33". 6 3/8 inches x 9 7/8 in., numbered limitation page; half-title; frontispice of Albert P. D'Andrea bronze tablet of Townsend Harris, title-page printed in orange and black, with device. xix, 616 pp., including appendixes & index; 16 black & white illustrations, some reproducing, drawings, letters, etc. This binding by The French Binders Garden City, N. Y. (with their stamp), featured a dark green morocco leather spine, sides & corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spine, gilt-lettered titling in compartments, and green cloth, green and gold endpapers, top-edge gilt. The leather spine and parts of the sides have faded, some tan spotting to the prelims., frontispiece, title-page to p. vii. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down endpaper. Weight: 3 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. …