By the Old Walls of Kyoto. A Year's Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries

by Harold Stewart

$48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. Poetry FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 16cm , pp.xxv; 1 ; 463; 3 . With 24 colour reproductions of nihonga by various artists. Pictorial endpapers inspired by a wall at Daitoku-ji. Publisher's red cloth, with design in black to upper and black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Yoshihiro Murata, priced at 22.50 to front flap. Interior bright and clean with the faintest amount of spotting to top

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