Author: MAKI Haku, artist
Title: Festive Wine
Description: 1969. (Maki Haku, Artist) Brannan, Noah, & William Elliott, translators. FESTIVE WINE. ANCIENT JAPANESE POEMS FROM THE KINKAFU. New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1969. #60 of 150 deluxe copies, signed and sealed by the artist Maki Haku and including 21 signed color woodblock prints by him, with ancient Japanese haikus on the facing pages. This deluxe edition is folio in size, 31.5 x 24.6 cm, and the prints have an image size of approx. 19.5 x 14 cm. It is printed on kyokushi handmade paper and bound in hemp and goatskin with a washi dustwrapper which has had a window cut in the area covering the title. This has been covered with a transparent plastic slip, producing light offsetting to the portion of the spine which has come into contact with this plastic film. It is housed in a cedar wood slipcase. Truly a deluxe production, this represents one of the finest books of its kind issued in the postwar period in Japan. It is about fine. .
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Title: Festive Wine
Description: 1969. (Maki Haku, Artist) Brannan, Noah, & William Elliott, translators. FESTIVE WINE. ANCIENT JAPANESE POEMS FROM THE KINKAFU. New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1969. #60 of 150 deluxe copies, signed and sealed by the artist Maki Haku and including 21 signed color woodblock prints by him, with ancient Japanese haikus on the facing pages. This deluxe edition is folio in size, 31.5 x 24.6 cm, and the prints have an image size of approx. 19.5 x 14 cm. It is printed on kyokushi handmade paper and bound in hemp and goatskin with a washi dustwrapper which has had a window cut in the area covering the title. This has been covered with a transparent plastic slip, producing light offsetting to the portion of the spine which has come into contact with this plastic film. It is housed in a cedar wood slipcase. Truly a deluxe production, this represents one of the finest books of its kind issued in the postwar period in Japan. It is about fine. .
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Price: US$ 3600.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 88370
- Book number: 88370
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