A collection of 17 blue-back spelling books published for the Japanese market

by Noah Webster

$3,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Tokyo & Osaka: various publishers, ca. 1860s to1890s. 17 volumes, 12mo and 8vo, all in original blue printed paper-covered boards backed in cloth; condition ranges from fair to near fine. All with the title or variant title of The Elementary Spelling-Book with the following imprints, and variations: 1 Tokio: Bookselling Co., after 1866 , pp. 3 -170, 2 Japanese title , Japanese mss. notes on rear endpaper; 2 Tokio: Rikugokuwan, after 1866 , pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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