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Mock Joya's Things Japanese
by Joya, Mock
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo News Service. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1971. 6th Revised Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some ground-in dirt to the top edge of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has a long thin chip missing from the bottom spine end. "Mock Joya, the author of "Things Japanese", was a veteran journalist in Japan. Born in 1884, he was graduated from the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages in 1904, and worked in the journalistic field, having served as a reporter on the staff of The New York World and also as editor of The Japan Times. His name is known to every student of Japan. For over forty years he has written on "Things Japanese" and at the time of his death in August 1963, was still contributing his column of the same name to The Japan Times. " (Things Japanese website) .
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Details
- Bookseller
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A39763
- Title
- Mock Joya's Things Japanese
- Author
- Joya, Mock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- 6th Revised Edition
- Publisher
- Tokyo News Service
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo, Japan
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Japan, Mock Joya, Culture, Social Issues, Dictionary, Glossaries, Japan
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Biblio member since 2003
Modesto, California
About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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