Collectible - Acceptable First Edition

Tokyo: The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, 1957. First edition, first printing, stated. Sm 4to paperback bound in the traditional Japanese method in lightly textured pale gray wraps with white title label with black text to front cover. 41pp. Intermittent color and B/W plates. Fair. Exlib with call number near spine and crossed out on title page, and stamps crossed out on inside front and rear covers and on author's photo. Spine and edges of wraps have been bound with blue fabric tape; the call number and a spine title are written on this tape. Tape has offset to endpages, as has some ink from inside cover stamp. Minor adhesion damage to margins of title page and more heavily to rear author's bio page and inside rear cover. Else inside is clean and neat, with lovely bright plates. (ukiyo-e, woodblock, engraving, printing, art, japan) Inquire if you need further information.