By Futagawa Yukio, Kamiyo Yuichiro, Fukuyama Toshio
Tokyo   Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
14" by 10" 50pp.
A very scarce picture book on Shinto shrines in Japan, a superior copy in its unclipped dustwrapper.
By Futagawa Yukio, Kamiyo Yuichiro, Fukuyama Toshio

1962 Shinto Shrines of Japan

Tokyo   Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
14" by 10" 50pp.
A very scarce picture book on Shinto shrines in Japan, a superior copy in its unclipped dustwrapper.
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Description

Fine Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this very scarce work. An ode to the Shinto shrines of Japan, illustrated in this volume. With a general introduction in English and historical and architectural notes in the original Japanese to rear volume. Shinto shrines are places of worship, visited by devoted believers who pay respect to the kami or to pray for good fortune. 

With unclipped dustwrapper, and thirty two plates.

Condition

In the original publisher's orange paper covered boards. Externally excellent with only minor shelfwear. and minor rubbing to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper in unclipped and very smart, with slight shelfwear and minor chipping to head of spine. Faint handling marks to rear wrap. Internally, hinges to title page are slightly strained, otherwise binding is firm. With thirty two plates.

Near Fine

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