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Tokyo and Osaka: The Sanseido Company, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hiroshi Yosida. Good. In addition to the signed print/frontispiece there is a series of four plates illustrating the printing of "A Junk" and then the "Special Print", each in color. The final, finished print and the Special Print are also signed by Yoshida. Spine cloth is sunned, frayed at head and heel, and there is a stain from brief water contact at bottom two inches of spine. Water did not affect book interiior in any way. There is a pulled thread on fore-edge of bottom board and on lower outer corner of top board. Board corners are rounded. Light pencil name of prior owner on front end paper. Firmly and squarely bound. Additional pictures upon request. GDH G-1

E-314: The Sanseido Company, Ltd. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Sanseido Company, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. 1939. 136 pgs. Illustrated with 12 color woodcuts plates +26 b/w. Photos with an appendix of 220 prints & number of blocks. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine faded and sunned). Foxing present. Bookplate of Duncan Houx Olmstead present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hiroshi Yoshida (Yoshida Hiroshi, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in… Read More