Author: Yamamoto G.S. [Tadashi].
Title: The Conversations for Officers and Merchants, of the Japanese and English. [Eiwa Bunsho Kaiwahen].
Description: Osaka, S.H. Okajima 1887. Small octavo (16x12cm) publisher's roan backed decorated boards (rubbed); [10],173,[1],[2 colophon]pp. Title page printed in red and black within a gold frame. Rear endpaper removed, rather good and fresh inside. ¶ A pleasing little book with the usual amount of baffling and useless conversational gambits plus an emphasis on social niceties - dinners, drinking, dancing and so forth - and business. Worldcat finds only the NDL copy and so can I.

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