In good condition with minimal exterior shelf-wear and interior age-related wear and marks from use. Some rubbing and toning to the spine. Some foxing to text-blocks. A few large creases remain on the front flyleaf that work as endpapers. Slight age-related toning to pages. The previous owner has left blue-inked faculty stamps at the tops of the introductory pages. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing.

A rare 1937 Japanese language book about the history of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (c. 1159-1189) who was a military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. He is considered one of the greatest and most popular warriors of his era and one of the most famous samurai in Japanese history. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967)  'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's blue-inked Yale University faculty stamp can be found throughout this folio.