[JAPANESE FAIRY TALES - HASEGAWA] - Nedzumi no Yome-iri [Mouse's Wedding]
Tokyo, Kobunsha, No.2 Minami Saegicho, [1885] First edition, first issue on plain paper. 14 folded leaves (28pp.) including cover wrappers, numerous colour woodcut illustrations, bound Japanese style with blue silk thread, 182 x 126mm. A near-fine copy. ¶ This is the first issue, on plain paper, with only the phonetically transliterated Japanese title on front wrapper and the English title in the publisher's colophon on the verso. There is no indication in the colophon that it is part of the series 'Japanese Fairy Tales' and no list of other titles in the series on the verso of the rear wrapper. Rare thus. It became No.6 in Hasegawa's Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Also printed on crepe paper, later printings with different illustrations, and much better known thus.
AUD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 370.25 US$ 554.4 | £UK 333.75 | JP¥ 48985] Booknumber: 5750is offered by:
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