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Very Good + in Very Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. With illustrations in color and black & white and a bibliography. viii, 167 pages. 4to. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth. In a dust jacket. Very Good +/Very Good.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0834801809. First Edition. Illustrated with 24 colour and 82 black & white photographs. Fine hardback with a very good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Kanban are the traditional signs Japanese merchants displayed on the street to advertise their presence, represent the products and services to be found inside their shops, and lend a sense of individuality to the shops themselves. Created from wood, bamboo, iron, paper, fabric, gold leaf, and lacquer, these unique objects evoke the frenetic market scenes of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Japan, where merchants created a multifaceted world of symbol and meaning designed to engage the viewer and entice the customer.; 4to 11"-13" tall; viii +167 pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 167 pp., many illus. throughout, some in color. Gift inscription to the front inside board, top left-hand side. Dustjacket has been price clipped. Photography and design by Dana Levy.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1983, First Edition. Hardcover. 167 pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily in b&w. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Tight, clean copy.
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As New. 0834801809. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--176 pp. With 361 ills. (23 col. ). 31 x 22 cm. --with a bonus offer--
Kanban are Japanese shop signs. The ones in this book are handmade antiques, fairly small in scale, generally illustrative of the services or products they advertise. "Kanban, Shop Signs of Japan" opens with a brief and informative introductory essay, followed by almost 100 pages of illustrations of Kanban. Black and white, they are beautifully reproduced, on good quality matte paper, similar in quality to the illustrations in "How To Wrap Five Eggs". If the reader wants more than aesthetic appreciation of the signs, a Commentary section provides provenance, size and details of the signs' meaning. The book ends with a chronology, glossaries, and a bibliography. I am continually surprised by the skilled and artistic attention given to objects of daily life in Japan. I recently saw my first Kanban, and this book was a knowledgeable and pleasurable appreciation of them.