壽々/ Jou Jou
Tokyo: 芸艸堂 / Unsoudo, 1918. 2 volumes, 11" x 7¾", each 56 pages; color woodblock prints on 25 pages of each volume depicting a variety of toys from around the world, including masks from Taiwan and Paris, Russian Matryoshka dolls, Barbizon puppets, Hungarian and Burmese carvings, and so on; blue and brown paper covers, stab stitched, illustrated title labels on upper covers; old library labels on covers and stamps on preliminaries, covers rubbed, very good. An earlier edition was published 4 years earlier, but did not include 42 of the woodblock prints included here. OCLC locates Stanford, Sandiego State, Princeton, Columbia, and New York Public. Item #51465
Price: $1,500.00