By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
London   Hurst & Blackett Ltd.
9" by 5.5" 288 pp.
A British edition of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto’s evocative autobiography, chronicling her transformation from a samurai daughter in old Japan to a modern woman in the United States.
By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

1933 A Daughter of the Samurai

London   Hurst & Blackett Ltd.
9" by 5.5" 288 pp.
A British edition of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto’s evocative autobiography, chronicling her transformation from a samurai daughter in old Japan to a modern woman in the United States.
£55.00
: 0.5kgs / : 983H29

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Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original yellow cloth binding. 

Illustrated with eight black, white and yellow plates. Collated, complete.

First published in New York in 1925, this 1933 Hurst & Blackett edition brought Sugimoto’s autobiography to a British audience.

This is an autobiographical memoir by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, recounting her journey from a traditional samurai upbringing in nineteenth-century Japan to her life as a wife and mother in the United States.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight soiling to boards with the odd slight handling mark. Slight blistering to fore edge of front board. Slight discolouration to spine. Previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper. Cliff Parfitt ex-libris book plate to front paste down. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

Very Good Indeed

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