journeys among gentle japs summer de thomas rev (2 résultats)

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good (-). First Edition. Signed by author 'J LL Thomas' to frontispiece. Pen work raised showing this to be a genuine signature. Prize inscription to front end paper. No other marks. Clear gilt lettering to front and spine. Tissue guarded frontispice of the author. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked sunned boards, well sunned spine, dusty page edges, slight foxing and very minor bumping to upper front corner. Large fold-out map at rear with minor tear and slight creasing, otherwise in very good condition. 266pp. Covers the author's journey and the people and places across Canada to the North Pacific, Yokohama, Kamakura & Enoshima, the Hakone Hills, Tokyo, Nikko, The Tokaido Line, Kobe & neighbourhood, the Sanyo Line, Shikoku and the return. Very early explorore access to Japan . Extremeley scarce signed copy. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Signed by Author.

Etat : Very Good. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1897, large 12mo (5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in - 13.5 x 18.7 cm), green textured (blindstamped) cloth with two cranes blindstamped on the front cover, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, black and white photogravure portrait of the author, folding color map of Japan, 32 pages of publisher's advertisements, i-x, 266 pp. The large folding map (3 folds out and 3 folds up) is a color lithograph map. It is placed between the last two pages of text (pages 250 and 251). The text is followed by an index (pages 252-66) and then the publisher's advertisements (32 pages). ~ Condition. The book is in Very Good condition. The corners are bumped. There is a large rubbed area (color is slightly lighter) on the front covers and minor scraping and soiling elsewhere on the front and back covers. There is heavy foxing for the first and last 10 or so pages. Internally there is scattered light foxing primarily on the page edges or in the page margins. The map is complete and sound with a one inch tear in the margin which is outside the image are. There are scattered areas of foxing on the front and back of the map. The book has a Cliff Parfitt ex-libris book plate and an author's inscription on a front free paper.