Impressions of Japanese Architecture; And the Allied Arts
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 14-242 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph and with twenty-three or so black and white photograph plates. The first Marshall Jones Co. edition, a revised edition done after this volume was first published in 1905. Cram's appreciation of Japanese Architecture and art, with a history of Japanese architecture from the Sino-Korean Kondo at Horiuji to the Teikoku hotel in Tokyo. A well-written Western history of Japanese building arts. Near Fine / Good+. Item #000010339
A Near Fine book with two spots of foxing to the endpapers; jacket is Good or better with several tape repairs and a closed tear to the rear panel.
Price: $125.00