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[JAPANESE FAIRY TALES - HASEGAWA] Kobutori [The Old Man & The Devils] ['Japanese Fairy Tales Series No.7']
Tokyo, The Kobunsha, No.2 Minami Saegicho, [1885] First edition, issue on plain paper. 11 folded leaves (22pp.) including cover wrappers, numerous colour woodcut illustrations, stab-bound with two blue silk knots, 180 x 125mm. A small pale stain in the margin of pages 2-3. 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 only at the beginning of the story. The colophon states (in English) that it is No.7 of the 'Japanese Fairy Tales Series'. 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: 6071