simmonds florence trans (8 risultati)

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1908, 1st edition. Octavo. xxii, 207pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Some rubbing and discolouration to spine. Binding square and firm. Mild foxing and toning internally. Overall a 'Good' copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Very good +. 221 p. 20 cm. Blue cloth hardcover. Ink signature on front free endpaper. A few rough edges where pages were cut.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Revised Edition. Revised and Enlarged English Edition (1930). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. Gentle tanning to the page block, top edge dust-toned. No dust jacket. Black cloth with decorated gilt titling to the spine and with a bright gilt design to the front. The boards remain sound and secure, with a few surface marks and short scratches and a press to the spine ends. Translated by Florence Simmonds. Illustrated by William Siegel. Witha Foreword to the New Edition by the author. xiii, 487pp. Illustrated.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Various (illustratore). First edition. The first edition of Gaston Migeon's scholarly account of his travels to Japan, with a particular focus on culture and art. The first edition of Gaston Migeon's In Japan: Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Art, translated from French-English by Florence Simmonds. Published by William Heinemann in 1908.In the publisher's original decorative green cloth, with antique-laid paper. Contains a frontispiece of Buddhist bodhisattva Fugen Bosatsu, and all other 59 illustrations of Japanese and Buddhist culture on plates throughout. Collated complete.Also contains original advertisements of other works on Japan from the publishers, such as Kakemono by J.H. Edwards.A French art historian and curator at the Louvre, Migeon approaches his study of Japanese art and culture with scholarly fascination. As a reader, we follow his travels across different temples, museums and monuments in the country, such as The Imperial Palace in Kyoto.Travelling to the country in the years following the Meiji Restoration, Migeon wishes to explore how modern Japanese culture considers their past and whether it will reveal to the West its beauty. In the publisher's original decorative green cloth. Externally, very smart with minimal handling marks. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to the spine. Offsetting to free end papers. An ink signature from previous owner and a bookplate to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot, heaviest to central leaves. Plates are clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are mostly clean.

Good hardback. Light edgewear, corners bumped, endpapers foxed. Book is lightly shaken, clean and unmarked. 218 pp Large 8vo blue cloth with black titles and white illustration. With frontispiece and 19 other tissue-guarded coloured tipped-in illustrations by Maurice Lalau. Deckled page edges. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. xiii, 217 p. 26 cm. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, 19 other tipped-in colour plates. B&w decorations. Blue cloth with white and gold print. In mylar-covered brown dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edges, splitting in folds. Book spine is sunned. Light wear to book edges. Roughened text block edge.