Shelfmark
Idd8.3.14
Author
Title
A daughter of the samurai / by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto ; with an introduction by Christopher Morley ; illustrations by Tekisui Ishii.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.
Physical description
xvii, [3], 314 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note
"How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation, became a modern American"
Note
Title-page printed in black and ochre; leaves of plates printed in black and yellow.
Note
Publisher's embossed red cloth boards with black buckram spine; with dustjacket.
Provenance
Inscribed by the author "to Master Nigel Haigh [...] a few days before Doll Festival month 1939, Aoyama, Tokyo" with the author's signature in Japanese in brushwork.
Provenance
Bookseller's price label of S. Takahashi of Yokohama and the Imperial Hotel Lobby, Tokyo.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted sheet of tissue paper with brushwork design of a bough of pink blossoms.
Subject
Subject
Japan Social life and customs 1868-1912.
Genre/Form
Memoirs.
Added entry--name
Morley, Christopher,, 1890 - 1957 writer of introduction.
Added entry--name
Ishii, Tekisui illustrator.
Added entry--name
Doubleday, Doran & Company publisher.
Added entry--place
United States New York Garden City.
Identifier
B51649