Tekisui ishii (20 risultati)

Hardcover. Reprint. Good+ with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Cover has soiling. Previous owner's name; introduction by Christopher Morely; 314 pages. Illustrated by Tekisui Ishii (illustratore).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Reading Copy. No Jacket. 161 pages. In addition to most library markings, the covers are soiled and binding has been repaired with cloth library tape. Corners and edges worn. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ishii, Tekisui (illustratore). Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece and title page are missing. Has all the typical marking of a library book. Book is well used with some page tears etc. Binding is tight. Tekisui Ishii (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Light soiling and wear to the cover, minor cloth chipping to the front fore-edge of the rear cover. Previous owner's name on the front end paper. F4. Tekisui Ishii (illustratore).

Early reprint (first published 1925). xx, 314 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket with pictorial wraparound illustrations; dj rubbed and soiled with some chipping and short tears at edges. Yellow cloth with some soiling and light staining. Toning to edges and endpapers; three ownership/gift ink inscriptions on front endpapers along with some relatively minor ink blotting; pencil marginalia at bottom of page 27; occasional other pencil underlining and margin marks amongst text; strong vertical creases to pages 255-258; strong toning to pages 288-289 caused by a now removed newspaper clipping. Binding is firm. A good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with silver stamping on front cover and spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1950, "New Edition". 288 pages. In good condition. Covers are clean overall, though there are a few smudges here and there. Indentation along edge of front cover. Cloth is worn at corners and head and foot of spine. Front and rear gutters are cracked through; binding is fragile. Inscription written on front free endpaper, signed "Hanano Kadera, daughter of 'A Daughter of the Samurai'". Pages otherwise are free of marks or tears. A good reading copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. This book has two Japanese folktales told in rhyme. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Book is tight, bright and clean; near fine because the previous owner's gift inscription is on the fep.There was no dust jacket as issued. Ishii, Tekisui; Yonai, Suiho (illustratore).…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Stated FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, full number line starting with 1. An unread book that was carefully shelved, stored, and/or briefly handled as part of a private collection. Dust jacket is intact and in very good condition with faint scratches on top of front cover. Text block appears unread and does not have any markings, tears, corner creases, foxing or other defects. Providing superior service since 2001. Dropshippers heartily welcomed. Ishii, Tekisui; Yonai, Suiho (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Drawings; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 124 pages; 1928 Frederick A. Stokes. Oblong format HC in publicher's black cloth lettered in yellow to spine and with pictorial title lettered paper panel mounted to the upper board. Binding a little shaken but holding in the spine; partial splits in the endppaper hinges archivally mended with japanese paper tape. Cloth rubbed and thinning at spine ends and slightly rubbed through at corner tips; small nick to cloth mid spine and title lettering a bit dulled but legible. Contents unmarked with some light scattered finger soiling and handling. Illustrated with 18 b&w plates from drawings by Tekisui Ishii. G to G+. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Cheap. Jacket is chipped around margins with small creasing. Copy has inscription on FFE. Some light foxing through prelims and on folio fore-edges, though contents are clean. Ishii, Tekisui (illustratore).

288 pp, b&w illustrations, d/j front pasted to upper board, d/j flap blurb pasted to front end-paper, intermittent foxing, lacks rear end-paper, board corners worn, library stamps throughout, reading copy in green, cloth boards. . First published 1936. Number XV.

Hardcover. Condizione: good. pgs:314. Doubleday, 1929 1st wood effect boards, light scuffing to front, contents clean no markings, feint toning to pages, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Presented here are two folktales that have fascinated Japanese children for generations. The Magic Badgerkettle, a badger uses its magic powers in a most unusual and endearing manner to repay a poor scrapman for his kindness. A Spouse for a Mouse tells the tale of the king of the mice, who is determined to wed his beautiful daughter to the most powerful being in the world. Tekisui Ishii and Suiho Yonai (illustratore).…

Second printing: octavo; hardcover, full decorative cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, and decorative endpapers; 314pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and an illustration likewise. Minor wear; slightly rolled; mildly toned and lightly spotted text block edges; some mild offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper mildly edgeworn with some sunning to the spine pane;, now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. A Daughter of the Samurai tells the true story of a samurai's daughter, brought up in the strict traditions of feudal Japan, who was sent to America to meet her future husband. An engrossing, haunting tale that gives us insight into an almost forgotten age. Madam Sugimoto was born in Japan, not in the sunny southern part of the country which has given it the name of "The Land of Flowers," but in the northern province of Echigo which is bleak and cold and so cut off from the rest of the country by mountains that in times past it had been considered fit only for political prisoners or exiles. Her father was a Samurai, with high ideals of what was expected of a Samurai's family. His hopes were concentrated in his son until the son refused to marry the girl for whom he was destined and ran off to America. After that all that was meant for him fell to the lot of the little wavy-haired Etsu who writes here so delightfully of the things that happened in their childhood days in far-away Japan. …

Condizione: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condizione: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A British edition of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto"s evocative autobiography, chronicling her transformation from a samurai daughter in old Japan to a modern woman in the United States. In the publisher's original yellow cloth binding.Illustrated with eight black, white and yellow plates. Collated, complete.First published in New York in 1925, this 1933 Hurst & Blackett edition brought Sugimoto"s autobiography to a British audience. This is an autobiographical memoir by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, recounting her journey from a traditional samurai upbringing in nineteenth-century Japan to her life as a wife and mother in the United States. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, smart. Slight soiling to boards with the odd slight handling mark. Slight blistering to fore edge of front board. Slight discolouration to spine. Previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper. Cliff Parfitt ex-libris book plate to front paste down. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Tekisui Ishii (illustratore). book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. The illustrated UK edition of this beautiful autobiography by Japanese novelist Sugimoto. Early UK edition of A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto in the original publisher's cloth binding.This lovely but harrowing work tells the true story of a samurai's daughter, raised with the strict traditions of feudal Japan. Inspired by the author's own life.Sugimoto emigrated to the US and studied history and culture at Columbia University.Illustrated with eight black, white and yellow plates. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Tekisui Ishii (illustratore). book.…

Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. A very prsentable copy of the 1935 stated 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (light spotting along the preliminaries) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with mild creasing at the spine crown and the top-edges. Thick octavo, illustrated throughout (including the dustjacket and endsheets) by Tekisui Ishii. Tekisui Ishii (illustratore).…

Condizione: Fine. Number of books: 11.