[Rarebooks] FS: Japanese paper making

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today :

Jugaku, Bunsho.   Paper-making by hand in Japan.  Tokyo, Meiji-Shobo, 
Publishers, Limited, 1959. Original parchment boards. Attractive small 
leather book label on the front pastedown. Lower front corner bumped, 
otherwise fine in rubbed, internally repaired dust jacket, creased on the 
front panel and with good-sized scraped patches on the back panel. 75 
numbered text pages, followed by photographs, followed by 24 numbered, 
mounted paper samples.  $400.00

Jugaku, Bunsho.  Japanese way to make paper by hand.  n.p., Takeo Paper Co. 
Ltd., 1969]. Original yellow wrappers. Upper rear corner lightly bumped, 
otherwise fine. Introduction in English, p. 1-25 [or 151-175] (the book 
uses two numbering systems). Text in Japanese, p. [1]-147. Unillustrated. 
Presentation card from Takeo Paper Co. Ltd. laid in.  $75.00

Jihei, Kunisaki.   Kamisuki chohoki: a handy guide to 
papermaking.  Berkeley, The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1948. 
Quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. Corners and head and foot of 
backstrip lightly worn, otherwise very good. After the Japanese edition of 
1798 with a translation by Charles E. Hamilton. One of 1 ,000 copies.  $75.00

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paper-making.


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