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Oriental Humor.
Blyth, R.H. · Tokyo
- Author
- Blyth, R.H.
- Date
- 1963
- Place
- Tokyo
- Publisher
- Hokuseido Press
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.75" x 8.25") Third Printing. Includes original card slipcase. Full yellow cloth with black lettered spine. Printed endpapers. Good dust jacket with creases at spine, chipped edges to spine head and foot and folds, lightly soiled, now protected in a mylar cover. Boards, spine with soiling, small stains to textblock edges. Original card slipcase with scuffing to edges, small closed tears to edges of opening, slipcase spine in several attached piece (see pic), bottom stapled edge starting. Illustrated with colored frontispiece and 24 full page, descriptive tissue guarded plates, 5 in color, and 6 in-text illustrations.
- Format
- Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English writer and devotee of Japanese culture. He is most famous for his writings on Zen and on haiku poetry. He wrote six books on haiku (1949–52, 1963–64) and two books on senryū (1949, 1960), four books on humour in Asian and English literature (1957, 1959(a), 1959(b), 1961), as well as seven books on Zen (1942, 1952, 1960–64; posthumous 1966, 1970). Further publications include studies of English literature (1942, 1957, 1959) and a three-fifths shortened version of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by his favourite author Henry David Thoreau, along with an introduction and explanatory notes.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.7941
8vo.(5.75" x 8.25") Third Printing. 1963. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press. Includes original card slipcase. Full yellow cloth with black lettered spine. Printed endpapers. Good dust jacket with creases at spine, chipped edges to spine head and foot, and folds, lightly soiled, now protected in a mylar cover. Boards, spine with soiling, small stains to textblock edges. Original card slipcase with scuffing to edges, small closed tears to edges of opening, slipcase spine in several attached pieces (see pic), bottom stapled edge starting. Illustrated with colored frontispiece and 24 full-page, descriptive tissue-guarded plates, 5 in color, and 6 in-text illustrations.
Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English writer and devotee of Japanese culture. He is most famous for his writings on Zen and on haiku poetry. He wrote six books on haiku (1949–52, 1963–64) and two books on senryū (1949, 1960), four books on humour in Asian and English literature (1957, 1959(a), 1959(b), 1961), as well as seven books on Zen (1942, 1952, 1960–64; posthumous 1966, 1970). Further publications include studies of English literature (1942, 1957, 1959) and a three-fifths shortened version of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by his favourite author, Henry David Thoreau, along with an introduction and explanatory notes.
Condition
Good
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