Aisaburo Akiyama — Geisha Girl

Yokohama , Yoshikawa Book Store , 1937. Cloth. An informative volume on the history and occupation of geishas, with colour plates. Third edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with coloured illustrated tipped-in to the front board. With the fly leaf from the original dust wrapper loosely inserted. Illustrated with twelve plates, including a tipped-in colour plate, seven additional colour plates, three monochrome plates, and a folding monochromatic photograph. Collated, complete. A descriptive overview of geisha girls, including their origins, profession, how they live, where they come from, their debut, and what meets them at the end of their time as a geisha. Written by Aisaburo Akiyama.  In the publisher's original cloth binding, with coloured illustrated tipped-in to the front board. Externally, with fading to the spine and rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Fading to the text to the front board and spine. Ex libris bookplate of one Cliff Parfit to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .