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[JAPANESE FAIRY TALES - HASEGAWA] Nedzumi no Yome-iri [Mouse's Wedding] ['Japanese Fairy Tales Series No.6']
Tokyo, EHT[sic. i.e.THE] Kobunsha, No.2 Minami Saegicho, [1886?] First edition, later issue, issue on plain paper. 14 folded leaves (28pp.) including cover wrappers, numerous colour woodcut illustrations, stab-bound with two blue silk knots, 185 x 127mm. A near-fine copy. ¶ This is the first edition, 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. This is a slightly later issue in which the colophon states (in English) that it is No.6 of the 'Japanese Fairy Tales Series', and there is a list of other titles, all in transliterated Japanese, in the series up to No.12 (first published in 1886 according to Sharf) on the verso of the rear wrapper. The series was also printed on crepe paper, in which format they are much better known, but the genuine first edition is generally considered to be the plain paper issue.
Offered for AUD 375.00 = appr. US$ 298.88 by: David Spode (ANZAAB/ILAB) - Book number: 6070