27th Jan, 2016 10:00

Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts
 
  Lot 41
 
Lot 41 - CHAMBERLAIN, Basil Hall. Japanese Fairy Tale...

CHAMBERLAIN, Basil Hall. Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No 8. Urashima, The Fisher-Boy. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, [n.d, c.1886]. Small 8vo. Cloth, illustrated with charming depictions of rivers and mountains (some creasing to front and rear covers and a few of the pages). Provenance: "This book must have been given to my father, then Surgeon Commander R. J. Mackeown RN. serving in H.M.S. Victory - on staff of C-in-C Portsmouth 1919-21 by an officer in the Japanese Navy" (inscription). With Joan S. Grigsby's Lantern's by the Lake. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1929. Tipped in wood block frontispiece, 5 further, tipped in wood block engravings (front and rear endpapers split at the gutters). Contemporary black cloth, illustrated with a lantern in red to the upper board, titled in black (some fading, and bumping to head and tail of spine). (2)

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