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(Grabhorn Press) Ukiyo-e: "The Floating World" [with] Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date Published: 1962; 1959 Description: Includes: Ukiyo-e: "The Floating World". Illustrated with 28 collotype plates after Japanese woodblock prints, colored with blocks made by the Grabhorns. 15x10", black quarter-cloth & decorative boards, paper spine label, red plain paper jacket. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Figure Prints of Old Japan. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated with 56 collotype plates (52 in color) after Japanese wood-block prints. 15x10", quarter cloth & decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine label. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. BCC 112 & 103. Ukiyo-e volume with prospectus laid in,. Condition: Some light wear to both volumes, Figure Prints with bumps to boards at bottom edges; near fine overall. Item#: 355510 Headline: Two Grabhorn Press works on Japanese prints