The Essential Japanese House: craftsmanship, function, and style in town and country

by Teiji Itoh, Yukio Futagawa, text, photographs

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Tokyo / New York: John Weatherhill / Harper & Row, 1967. First English Language Edition. First printing of the English-language edition first published in Japan under the title Nihon no Minka, 1962 . Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; wood veneer endpapers; 419pp; illus. Red ink remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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