Item #3705 Hokubei Inshoki [Impressions of North America]. Hakuson Kuriyagawa, Tatsuo Kuriyagawa.
Hokubei Inshoki [Impressions of North America]

Hokubei Inshoki [Impressions of North America]

Tokyo: 1920. [4],4,375,[1]pp., plus three photographic plates. 16mo. Original limp black cloth, stamped in gilt, printed spine label. Moderate rubbing and creasing to boards, minor chipping to spine ends. A few leaves partially detached, but text block clean. Very good. Item #3705

A pocket-sized and abridged version of Kuriyagawa's popular Inshoki, a collection of essays written during a two-year visit to the United States, where he mostly explored New York. According to Mitziko Sawada in Tokyo Life, New York Dreams, Kuriyaga's book sold through thirteen printings. Tasuo Kuriyagawa (1880–1923) was a Meiji- and Taisho-era literary and cultural critic. The photographic plates in the present work feature Central Park, Wall Street and Trinity Church, and Niagara Falls. OCLC records just three copies, at the National Diet Library, the University of Southern California, and the Bancroft.

Price: $850.00

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