Mittsu no takara 三つの宝 Three Treasures

by Ryūnosuke 芥川龍之介 Akutagawa

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Finely colored title & 12 colored tipped-in plates by Ryuichi Oana. 1 p.l., 160 pp., one leaf of colophon. Small folio, orig. yellow cloth with pictorial medallions inset into each cover, orig. glassine wrapper & slipcase. Tokyo: Kaizosha, 1928. First edition, posthumously published, of this beautiful book, a collection of fairy tales, including the famous story “Kumo no ito” “The Spider’s Thread” . Akutagawa 1892-1927 , is today most

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