May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 42

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
SUZUKI, YOSHIKAZU.
Ginza Kaiwai, Ginza Haccho.
Edited by Shohachi Kimura. Together, 2 volumes. The first with numerous illustrations, including a color woodblock frontispiece, reproductions of drawings and photographic reproductions; the second with a long accordion-foldout of the streets of Ginza. Square 8vo, cream paper-covered gilt-lettered boards with a mounted printed pictorial label, corners slightly bumped; scattered internal foxing, rarely affecting the plates; housed in a rice paper-covered slipcase with two mounted printed pictorial title labels, closed end seams split and repaired, lightly foxed. Square 8vo, printed green paper-covered boards, lightly rubbed. All contained in the original box with an orange title label, very worn with split seams. first edition.
(Tokyo): (Toho Shobo), (1954)