HIBBETT, Howard. The Floating World in Japanese Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press. 1959. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in red to spine with red motif to board, in the dust jacket. Professor Hibbett’s comprehensive study of the tales of the Ukiyo and their background amid ‘the floating world’. A fine book, top edge a trifle spotted and some faint spots to endpapers only. The dust jacket price intact with all four corners neatly cut, some light spots and marks but most of which, we believe, can be carefully removed—we have removed a few with ease.