first edition Hardcover
1959 · San Francisco
by Stern, Harold
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine and pictorial boards. Fine in orig. glassine overwrapper. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400. Fifty -two colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Major contributors in terms of prints depicted are Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and fresh copy. Owner inscription free endpaper. (Inventory #: 19112)