Two Books: Living Japan & Meeting with Japan; Up for sale are two vintage Japan daily life books, including

Living Japan --- the land, the people and their changing world --- by Donald Keene

Meeting with Japan --- by Fosco Maraini

Product Identifiers:

Living Japan --- by Donald Keene

ISBN: Does not apply

Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 59-10088

Hard cover w/ dusk jacket & plastic cover, 224 pages, 158 illustrations, including 21 in color

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Publication year: Not dated, but likely in 1959

Printed by Conzett & Huber In Zurich, Switzerland

A Chanticleer Press Edition

The book written by Dr. Keene, an outstanding Japanese research scholar, captures the charm and the quaintness, the serenely traditional and the dynamic modern Japanese life in its full length text and 158 pictures.

Measures: Dimensions, 8 ¾” wide x 11 ¼” long x 1” thick; Weight, 2 lbs & 10.1 oz (1.19 kg). Condition: Very good and clean, all pages tight, no ripped or missing pages, no internal markings. The dust jacket shows some wear on the edges. Owner name to front. 

Meeting with Japan --- by Fosco Maraini

ISBN: Does not apply

Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 59-8458

Hardcover w/ duck jacket, 467 pages

Published by The Viking Press, Inc., NY

Publication year: 1960

The book originally written by an intelligent and observant Italian scholar offers an imaginative and penetrating introduction of the Japanese today, their culture and history. The book was translated from Italian by Eric Mosbacher.

Measures: Dimensions, 7” wide x 9 ½” long x 2” thick; Weight, 2 lbs & 7.s oz (1.11 kg). Condition: Very good and clean, all pages tight, no ripped or missing pages, no internal markings. The fore edge is with some stains. The dust jacket shows some wear and tear on the edges, but is strengthened with scotch tape.

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