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A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan / Gertrude Adams Fisher

2015.7.234

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900sDescription and travel

8 in

Gertrude Adams Fisher

First

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

North America

1906

Publisher's Binding- Japonisme

Unidentified Designer

Binding in blue/grey cloth signed by "ES" in the bottom right corner (unattributed). Pink, white, green and black stamped pictorial binding depicts a boat with billowing sail beneath a snow capped Mt Fuji and green mountains. This is surrounded by a double ruled frame of vine and flowers. Gilt titles to spine and cover in an Oriental inspired typography.Top edge gilt. 293 pages with index.

Stated First Impression October 1906. Flyleaf inscription: Lena F. MacClusney, With loving greeting from N. W. Noel, Christmas 1906.

Japan

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