Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(JAPANESE FAIRY TALES AND JUVENILES.) Group of 18 story books including issues from the Japanese Fairy Tales (mixed editions.) Various sizes, original pictorial bindings. Condition generally good, notes as indicated. Tokyo, mostly 1940s

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Japanese Fairy Tale Series numbers 1-4, 6-9, 11. Printed on crepe paper in original sewn wrappers, last volumes with child's inked signatures on rear covers of last two. English text. Mixed Editions. Hasegawa, circa 1900 Carus. Karma: A Story of Early Buddhism. 3rd Edition. 1894 The Old Man & the Devils. Later edition, ex-library, with stamps. circa 1930 Patton, E. S. Japanese Topsturvydom. A scarce, wonderful book explaining Japanese customs to the English. Crepe paper edition, second set of silk binding cords broken, wrappers chipped and soiled. Hasegawa, circa 1900 6 illustrated picture sequence books from the 1940s. Japanese text.