Item #2082 Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden. Teiji Sosei Kuzunishi ITOH, with, photographs.
Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden
Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden

Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden

New York, Tokyo and Kyoto: Weatherhill / Tankosha, (1973). First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 229. Translated by Ralph Friedrich and Masajiro Shimamura. Amply illustrated with color and black and white photography. An appendix lists the locations of the representative gardens that are the focus of the book. Bound in full green cloth with the image of a sculpture stamped in black ink on the front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of sun fading on spine. Gift inscription in ink on the title page. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #2082

Inscription is from Albert Ravenholt to his wife, Marjorie (Severyns) Ravenholt. Ravenholt was a foreign correspondent during WWII, mostly writing for UPI. In Shanghai, 1946, Ravenholt married Chungking-based OSS officer Marjorie Severyns, Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer presiding. Severyns had been stationed in Chungking, working on psychological warfare. For more on their war experiences, please see China Reporting An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Berkeley: University of California Press, (1987)). Dust jacket now preserved in a removable, archival sleeve.

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Price: $30.00