SKU: BBB-0353
REFERENCE - ARCHITECTURE & ASIAN STUDIES
Japanese Architecture (Tourist Library: 7)
| Author | Prof. Hideto Kishida, D.Sc. |
| Publisher | Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo |
| Year Published | 1935 |
| Edition | First Edition — Tourist Library Volume 7 — hardcover in original chitsu case (deluxe issue) |
| Binding | Hardcover in original chitsu (Japanese paper-board folding case with bone toggle closures) |
| Condition | Very Good — bone clasps intact, paste-on color plate intact, kanji case label intact, clean text block, light edge wear consistent with age |
| Genre | REFERENCE / Architecture & Asian Studies |
| BriteBound SKU | BBB-0353 |
About This Book
PRE-WWII JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IMPRINT. Volume 7 of the Tourist Library, a 40-book series the Board of Tourist Industry published between 1934-1942 to introduce Western tourists to Japanese culture. Discontinued during WWII. Includes color frontispiece (Kasuga Gongen Reigen-Ki picture-scroll), many color and B&W architectural plates, 133 pages. The HARDCOVER-IN-CHITSU deluxe issue (most surviving copies are softcover; this case binding is uncommon). PROVENANCE: Harry Hartman, Seattle bookseller's sticker on front pastedown -- Harry Hartman (1920s-60s) was a legendary Seattle bookseller and founder of the Young Reader's Choice Award (1940). Penciled '$4' original Hartman shop price. Subject of dedicated marketing feature story at /stories/japanese-architecture-1935.html. Suggested asking price: $85.