FICKE, Arthur Davison

TWELVE JAPANESE PAINTERS

1913. Item #85341

FICKE, Arthur Davison. TWELVE JAPANESE PAINTERS. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co./The Alderbrink Press (1913). One of 250 copies, of which 100 were for sale. Cover designed by Frederick W. Gookin with his initials stamped on front board to right of iris design. 49 pp. 8vo., dark yellow cloth stamped in gilt, white and blind. Moderate shelfwear to bottom of rear board and spine heel and crown. Spine darkened. Two personal bookplates to front pastedown, pencil gift inscription to front flyleaf, faint pencil notations to rear endpapers. Reflections in verse on twelve ukiyo-e painters. Text lightly toned at edges. Very good overall.

Price: $145.00