saga press (18 resultados)

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Condición: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!

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Paperback. Condición: New.

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Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!

Condición: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. Softcover with bright clean cover. INSCRIBED by one of the authors. Looks new inside and out. Inscribed by Author.

Condición: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Condición: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condición: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . .

First Edition. 14 pages of text & two pages forming paste-downs of varying shades of pale pink & cream gofun biki torinoko (mica-printed) paper, all printed with mica patterns, endpapers printed with mica patterns of plum flowers on branches & autumnal weeds, bound in two ?quires? & sewn together. Small 4to (240 x 180 mm.), orig. pale gray semi-stiff wrappers with mica woodblock-printed designs of hydrangea leaves, orig. printed label on upper cover. [Saga, near Kyoto: about 1608 or shortly thereafter]. An ultimate luxury copy (tokusei bon ???), in very fine condition, with mica-printed text leaves and covers, using paper of shades of pale pink, cream, and gray. This is the second time we have handled a copy of a K?etsu utai bon in the most luxurious state (of three). This is one of the series of 100 Noh plays produced at the famous private press in Saga, just north of Kyoto. These sumptuous luxury editions were printed for the wealthy and enlightened merchant Suminokura Soan (1571-1632), in collaboration with his calligraphy teacher K?etsu, a leading cultural figure of his day, famous as an artist, potter, lacquerer, and connoisseur. These books are amongst the most remarkable printed works created in Japan or anywhere else; their design is far in advance of anything produced in the West. Issued in limited numbers, they were intended for private distribution to an elite audience, friends and acquaintances of the creators, who formed the patrons of the Saga artistic community. Printed with movable type on luxurious thick paper, the books have, according to Hillier, a modernity in design matched only by the works of William Blake and the French artists? books of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They reveal the beauty of native Japanese calligraphy. The movable type is based on the calligraphy of K?etsu. This series of mostly chants from Noh plays comprises ?small, pamphlet-size books, each of about twelve or thirteen sheets, whose outstanding feature is the decoration, invariably of mica-printed patterns on stained or dyed paper, which is of a distinction that immediately links them with the collaborative scroll works by K?etsu and S?tatsu and which has led to their being called K?etsu-bon?These designs, resulting from a sophisticated adaptation or distortion of natural forms, are notable examples of one of the unique contributions of Japan to world art? ?But, decoration apart, these No booklets are remarkable in other ways. An unusually thick and opaque kind of paper was used, no doubt made specially for these editions, and, contrary to normal practice, it was printed on both sides of the sheet. This ruled out the normal construction of a book whereby the sheets, printed on one side only, were folded in two and bound at the loose edges. The majority of the K?etsu-bon were made up by an entirely different method. A number of sheets, usually six [in this copy, three in the first ?quire? and two in the second, the outer leaves used as paste-downs], were placed flat, one above the other, and the batch was then folded in two; two such sections would form a complete book. The binding again was unusual. The outer covers, though printed first as a single sheet, invariably with a mica-printed design, were cut in two and each given a folded turnover along one edge, in which one batch of the folded sheets was lodged. The two halves were then sewn together through the turn-overs of the two halves of the cover, brought together at the inner edge. This is a binding method unique to Japan and is known as Yamato-toji [or recch?s?]? ?These K?etsu-bon represent an astonishing leap forward to something entirely unprecedented in the history of the illustrated or decorated book. This was the first time a book had been conceived as a single unified work of printed decorative art?not until we come to William Blake?s Prophetic Books, do we encounter anything remotely comparable, and the creation in the West on any appreciable scale of books composed as homog.