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Edité par CHARLES E TUTTLE, RUTLAND, VT, 1978
ISBN 10 : 0804811601ISBN 13 : 9780804811606
Vendeur : Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, Etats-Unis
Livre
PAPERBACK. Etat : VG. 8th Printing.
Edité par Macmillan, London, 1907
Vendeur : Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, Etats-Unis
Livre
Original Wraps. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Red titles on tan wraps, 383 pages illustrated with woodcuts by Japanese artists. The front cover was detached and has been re-attached with clear tape. There is also chipping at edges of the wraps. The reverse of the title page says, "This edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies." It is part of Macmillan's Colonial Library.
Edité par KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO, LONDON
Vendeur : booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Cloth boards with red titles to spine and front.190 x 135 mm approx. 430 pp Frontis + 30 other woodcut illustrations as called for. Undated re print circa 1960's. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Very Good (Book- negligible shelf wear/soiling. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- spine sunned and with a 6 mm tear to fore edge flap fold, non price clipped 40s. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
Edité par Tuttle, 1966
Vendeur : The Groaning Board, Kensington, CA, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Fine First edition first printing hardcover, no writing or marks. Lacking jacket. Lovely decorative cover. Charming woodcut illustrations. 429 pages. M03650.
Edité par Tuttle, Rutland, 1971
ISBN 10 : 0804805652ISBN 13 : 9780804805650
Vendeur : By The Way Books, Richmond, TX, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Livre
Fourth printing. 429 pages. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.
Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. Undated facsimile edition of the original work of 1871 and published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 429pp, b/w illustrations.
Vendeur : Antiquarianbooksellers GEMILANG, Bredevoort, Pays-Bas
Rutland (Vermont) & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle, 1966. Stout small 8°., original coloured and illustrated limp wrappers. 429pp. Frontispiece, black/white plates after original cuts by japanese artists, explanatory footnotes, table of contents. Fine paperback copy.
Bel volume, rilegato, sovraccopertina con uno strappo in corrispondenza del margine superiore del dorso. Raro. Pagine: 429 Peso: 1.
Edité par Macmillan and Co., London, 1871
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, two volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii-ix] x [xi] xii [1] 2-277 [278: printer's imprint] [279-280: ads]; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-272, flyleaves at front and rear, 31 inserted plates, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, blue-gray coated endpapers. First ediltion. The book that made such Japanese classics as "The Forty-seven Ronin" first known to a wide Western public. Lord Redesdale's collection of short fiction focuses on various aspects of Japanese life before the Meiji Restoration. The book . "forms an introduction to Japanese literature and culture, both through the stories, all adapted from Japanese sources, and Mitford's supplementary notes. Also included are Mitford's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from harakiri (seppuku) and marriage to a selection of sermons" (Wikipedia). Armorial bookplates of Philip Greely Brown affixed to the front paste-down of each volume. Cloth a bit rubbed on front and rear panels, a bright, tight, very good copy. (#171120).
Vendeur : RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, Etats-Unis
London 1900, Macmillan. Cloth, teg., 386p., index, fold-out map. A unique copy, with autor's two page holographic letter tipped in, signed and dated September 17, 1900. * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CAREER DIPLOMAT IN JAPAN & CHINA . . * Covers the author's experiences as a British diplomat. . *** Algernon Bertram FREEMAN-MITFORD1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, DL [1837-1916] was a British diplomat, collector and writer. Nicknamed "Barty", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. . The author was also known as: MITFORD, A[lgernon] B.F. [Lord Redesdale], and used variants of this name when he authored other books. . *** DIPLOMACY: . Entering the Foreign Office in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy in St Petersburg. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Shanghai, he went to Japan as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the migration of the Japanese Seat of Power from Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), known as the "Meiji Restoration." . Mitford's memoirs recount the troubled time of the foreign settlements at Kobe over the fortnight following American Rear-Admiral Henry Bell's death, and the death of British consul Francis Gerard Mijburgh. . Redesdale served as secretary under Myburgh's replacement, John Frederik Lowder. There he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871), a book credited with making such Japanese Classics as "The Forty-Seven Ronin" first known to a wide Western public. . He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1873. . Following the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, in 1906 he accompanied Prince Arthur on a visit to Japan to present the Emperor Meiji with the Order of the Garter. He was asked by courtiers there about Japanese ceremonies that had disappeared since 1868. . He had persuaded Edward VII to plant Japanese knotweed at Sandringham House and it later became difficult to eradicate, according to George VI. . *** OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN BY FREEMAN-MITFORD: . TALES OF OLD JAPAN. London 1871, Macmillan. [Classic translations of Japanese Ancient stories & folk-tales. . THE BAMBOO GARDEN. London 1896, Macmillan. An excellent monograph on Japanese bamboo. . *** Color scans are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . en-wikipedia-org/wiki/Algernon_Freeman-Mitford,_1st_Baron_Re desdale . *.