Seven children's & illustrated titles relating to Japan, Chi...

Hammer

£100

Seven children's & illustrated titles relating to Japan, China etc., including T.H. Robinson (ill.): 'Old-World Japan. Legends of the Land of the Gods. Re-told by Frank Rinder', London, George Allen, 1895, 34 b/w illustrations (of which some full page) by T.H. Robinson as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; Mary Fenollosa: Blossoms from a Japanese Garden', L, Heinemann, 1913, 20 tipped in colour plates as called for, original cloth; Pearl S. Buck: 'Yu Lan Flying Boy of China', L, Methuen, 1947, 1st edition, colour illustrations (several full page) and pictorial end papers by Bridget Moss as called for, original quarter cloth, dust wrapper; Hsiao Ch'ien: 'The Dragon Beards Versus The Blueprints (Meditations on post-war Culture)', London, Pilot Press, 1944, 1st edition, wood engraved frontis by Leon Underwood, original cloth gilt; Cecil Beaton: Chinese Album', L, Batsford, photo b/w frontis + 78 pages of b/w plates from photographs by Cecil Beaton, original yellow cloth lettered in blue. Photographs taken by Beaton on a tour of China and India undertaken at the end of World War II for the Ministry of Information; Marjorie Landsborough: 'More Stories from Formosa', L, Presbyterian Church of England, [1932], map frontis + 7 b/w plates from photos as called for, orig. pictorial boards, later rebacked, plus 1 other (7)