[Rarebooks] FS: Signed work on Japanese bookplates w/originals. Tokyo: 1941

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOOKPLATES) Saito, Shozo.     BOOKPLATES IN JAPAN. 50 Plates. Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo. (1941). Sm. 4to. (6),7,(7)pp. of text, illustrated with woodcuts and 2 mounted bookplates in the preliminaries. Plus 50 numbered leaves with mounted original bookplates (most in color). Edition limited to 300 numbered copies (total printing of 350). Signed in Japanese by Saito on the limitation leaf, and with his chop stamped in red. The text portion is stabbed & tied at inner margin. The 50 numbered leaves with mounted bookplates are each loose. All the elements are housed in the publisher's rose colored board portfolio, a bit rubbed, with paper labels and a ribbon tie.    $300.00 (trade discount allowed)

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