[Rarebooks] fs: Japanese art & culture (3)

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
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(No. 7737 )  Futagawa, Yukio (photographs), Teiji Itoh (text). Foreword by
Isamu Noguchi. THE ROOTS OF JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC QUEST BY
YUKIO FUTAGAWA.
Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Publishers, (1963). First thus, Full cloth,
Folio, 207 pages, Black & White photographs. Near fine in a very good dust
jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Striking photo essay which traces one of the world's great
architectures back to its origins in the philosophy and religion of Japan.
Many of the illustrations are fold-outs. The excellent text and commentaries
were entirely re-written for a Western audience by the author. Handsomely
bound in coarse dark brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and
black ornament on upper board. Endpapers are faced with thin veneer of
cryptomeria wood, with a small explanatory label in lighter paulowinia wood
at lower fore corner of front free endpaper. A few faint spots of foxing to
top edge of textblock. Jacket has a few short edge tears and shallow
wrinkles. Lovely book.    $200.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7737.jpg

Also these two, not yet catalogued:
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Japan Industry and Tourism Association (Edited by Nakamura Tomoki). SURVEY
OF JAPAN 1963-A.
[Tokyo]: Japan Industry and Tourism Assoc., (1963). First printing, full
cloth, folio, 500 pages, color and black & white photographs, illustrations.
Near fine in a very good dustjacket, in original publisher's slipcase.
    Ambitious publishing project that aims to present the whole picture of
Japan's industrial and cultural life. Loads of illustrations including many
fold-outs. Tissue guards laid in before several full page illustrations.
Coarse tan cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and boards. Jacket has
a short tear and some wrinkling at heel of spine, at lower fore corner of
lower board, and at top edge of lower joint fold. Light browning to
slipcase. $75.00

Kidder, J. Edward, Jr. (Photographed by Yasukichi Irie, Ken Domon, Shihachi
Fujimoto & Manshichi Sakamoto). MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCULPTURE.
Tokyo & Rutland: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha & Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1961). First
thus, full cloth, folio, 328 pages, black & white photographs. Near fine in
a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
    Four of Japan's leading photographers devoted three years to capturing
these 199 images of Japanese sculpture spanning 5,000 years. The photography
is stunning. These works, little known to the Western world, compare
favorably with the best classical sculpture of Greece or Medieval Europe.
This is the first edition in English, with completely revised text and
commentaries. Bound in tan cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine title
and dark brown endpapers. Jacket has a few edge chips and a closed, 1" tear
near top edge of upper joint fold, and two shorter tears at head of spine
with some associated wrinkles.  $100.00

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