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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xviii, 168. Original publisher's flecked orange cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. This book is heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Foreword by Sir John Pilcher. Fine in very good indeed dust jacket.
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Very Good. First edition. Very good minus hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First edition. Former library book with the usual markings. Pages are clean. Illustrated. With fold-out maps. Tape shadow inside boards and on endpapers. Dustwrapper looks price clipped, price remains. Dustwrapper spine faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Illustrated by R. H. Brunton. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Hard cover is red cloth, looks like slubbed silk, with silver lettering in a black box, on the spine. Green monochrome, brocade design, end papers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Copyright page states "first printing, July 1969". Printed in Japan.6 color plates; 29 b/w illustrations, and two, bound in, folded, maps. "From coastal survey to the erection of lighthouses, from the building of the Japanese merchant marine to consular service for the Japanese Government, Capt. Brown...exciting story of the growth of an insular and anachronistically feudal state into the stature of a major international power". Includes epilogue; appendix: Richard Henry Brunton. 'The Japan Lights'. London, 1876; short handlist for further reading; index. Oversized, 4#.; B&W Illustrations and maps; color plates; 8 3/4 x 11; xviii, 168 pages; Hard cover has slight bumping. DJ front flap is price cut at top and bottom; in a mylar cover.
