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Encyclopedia

  • Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan.
    1st ed.
    Tokyo ; New York, N.Y. : Kodansha, 1983.
    Format: Book
    Description: 9 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
    Location: Watson Library-Reference
    Call Number: DS805 .K633 1983
    Holdings: v. 1-9

     
  • Taiyaku Nihon jiten = the Kodansha bilingual encyclopedia of Japan / [hensha Kodansha Intanashonaru].
    • Publisher: Tokyo : Kodansha Intanashonaru, 1998.
    Format: Book
    Description: 942 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
    Location: East Asian Library-Reference (Watson 5th floor)
    Call Number: DS805 .K6323 1998
    Location: East Asian Library
    Call Number: DS805 .K6323 1998

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Juvenile Literature

    There are two lives; poems by children of Japan. Translated by Haruna Kimura.
    Main Author: Lewis, Richard, 1935-
    Subject(s): Children's poems
    Japanese poetry--Translations into English.
    Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster [1970]
    Format: Book
    Description: 96 p. illus. 21 cm.
    ISBN: 0671651412
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL782.E3 L43

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Modern Literature

    Dazai Osamu, selected stories and sketches / translated by James O'Brien.
    Original Title: Selections [1983]
    Main Author: Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948.
    Subject(s): Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948 --Translations into English.
    Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : China-Japan Program, Cornell University, [1983?]
    Series: Cornell University East Asia papers ; no. 33
    Format: Book
    Description: 247 p. ; 28 cm.
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL825.A8 A26 1983
     
     
  • Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool's life / Ryunosuke Akutagawa ; with a foreword by Jorge
    • Main Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, 1892-1927.
    Publisher: Hygiene, CO : Eridanos Press ; [New York] : Rizzoli [distributor], c1987.
    Series: Eridanos library (Hygiene, Colo.) ; 2. Format: Book Description: xx, 145 p. ; 23 cm.
    Table of Contents: Hell screen / Cogwheels / A fool's life /
    A note to a certain old friend.
    ISBN: 0941419029 (cloth)
    0941419037 (pbk.)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL801.K8 A26 1987

  • Japanese gothic tales / Izumi Kyoka ; translated by Charles Shir¯o Inouye.
    • Original Title: Short stories.
    Main Author: Izumi, Kyoka, 1873-1939.
    Subject(s): Izumi, Kyoka, 1873-1939 --Translations into English.
    Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai` i Press, 1996.
    Format: Book
    Description: 202 p. ; 22 cm.
    Table of Contents: The surgery room / The holy man of Mount Kyoya
    One day in spring / Osen and Shokichi.
    ISBN: 0824817370 (cloth : alk. paper)
    0824817893 (paper : alk. paper)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL809.Z9 A25 1996

  • Kokoro : a novel and selected essays / Natsume Soseki ; translated by Edwin McClellan ; essays translated by Jay Rubin ; preface and foreword to essays by Jay Rubin.
    • Original Title: Kokoro
    Main Author: Natsume, Soseki, 1867-1916.
    Subject(s): Natsume, Soseki, 1867-1916 --Translations into English.
    Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Madison Books : Distributed by National Book Network, 1992.
    Series: The Library of Japan
    Format: Book
    Description: xi, 322 p. ; 23 cm.
    General Notes: Spine title: Kokoro and selected essays.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN: 0819182486 (cloth : alk. paper)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL812.A8 A26 1992

  • Naomi / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers.
    • Original Title: Chijin no ai.
    Main Author: Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro, 1886-1965.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985.
    Format: Book
    Description: ix, 237 p. ; 22 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of: Chijin no ai.
    ISBN: 0394536630
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL839.A7 C513 1985

  • Norwegian wood / Haruki Murakami ; translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
    • Original Title: Noruwei no mori.
    Main Author: Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Publisher: Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1989.
    Format: Book
    Description: 2 v. ; 15 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of: Noruwei no mori.
    ISBN: 0870119435 (U.S.)
    4061860518 (v.1)
    4061860526 (v.2)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL856.U673 N6713 1989
    Holdings: v. 1-2

  • The temple of dawn. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle.
    • Original Title: Akatsuki no tera.
    Main Author: Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970.
    Edition: [1st American ed.]
    Publisher: New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973.
    Series: His The sea of fertility [3]
    Format: Book
    Description: 334 p. 22 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of Akatsuki no tera.
    ISBN: 0394466144
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL833.I7 T4x 1973

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Classics

    The Kagero diary : a woman's autobiographical text from tenth-century Japan / translated with an introduction and notes by Sonja Arntzen.
    Original Title : Kagero nikki.
    Main Author: Michitsuna no Haha, ca. 935-995.
    Subject(s): Michitsuna no Haha,--ca. 935-995--Diaries.
    Authors, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185--Diaries.
    Publisher: Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997.
    Series: Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 19.
    Format: Book
    Description: xv, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-408) and index.
    ISBN: 0939512807 (cloth : alk. paper)
    0939512815 (paper : alk. paper)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL789.F8 Z473413 1997

  • The pillow book of Sei Shonagon / translated and edited by Ivan Morris.
    • Original Title: Makura no soshi.
    Main Author: Sei Shonagon, b. ca. 967.
    Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1991.
    Series: Translations from the Oriental classics
    Format: Book
    Description: 419 p. ; 22 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of : Makura no soshi.
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 411).
    ISBN: 0231073364
    0231073372 (pbk.)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL788.6.M3 E56 1991

  • The tale of the Heike / translated, with an introduction, by Helen Craig McCullough.
    • Original Title: Heike monogatari.
    Subject(s): Taira family--Fiction.
    Japan--History--Gempei Wars, 1180-1185--Fiction.
    Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 1988.
    Format: Book
    Description: 489 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of: Heike Monogatari.
    ISBN: 0804714185 (cloth : alk. paper)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    copy1 Temporarily Located at Watson Library-Reserve
    Call Number: PL790.H4 E5 1988

  • The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
    • Original Title: Genji monogatari. English by Edward Seidensticker.
    Main Author: Murasaki Shikibu, b. 978?
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1976, 1977 printing.
    Format: Book
    Description: 2 v. (xix, 1090 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of Genji monogatari.
    ISBN: 0394483286
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL788.4.G4 E5 1976

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Poems - Translated Literature

    An anthology of contemporary Japanese poetry / edited and translated by Leith Morton.
    Subject(s): Japanese poetry--20th century--Translations into English.
    Poets, Japanese--20th century--Biography.
    Publisher: New York : Garland Publishing, 1993.
    Series: World literature in translation ; [25]
    Format: Book
    Description: 458 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
    General Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN: 0824000374
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL782.E3 A59 1993

  • The essential haiku : versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa / edited and with verse translations by Robert Hass. Includes: Matsuo, Basho, 1644-1694. Poems. English. Selections.
    • Subject(s): Haiku--Translations into English.
    Japanese poetry--Edo period, 1600-1868--Translations into English.
    Publisher: Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1994.
    Format: Book
    Description: xvi, 329 p. ; 20 cm.
    General Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN: 0880013729
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL759.535 .E88 1994

  • Howling at the moon : poems of Hagiwara Sakutaro ; translated and with an introduction by Hiroaki Sato.
    • Original Title: Tsuki ni hoeru.
    Main Author: Hagiwara, Sakutaro, 1886-1942.
    Publisher: [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press ; Forest Grove, Or. : exclusive distributor, ISBS, c1978.
    Format: Book
    Description: xxvi, 142 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Table of Contents Howling at the moon. / Blue cat.
    General Notes: Translation of Tsuki ni hoeru and Aoneko.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN: 0860082067
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL808.A35 A274 1978

  • Japanese death poems = [Jisei] / written by Zen monks and Haiku poets on the verge of death ; compiled with an introduction and commentary by Yoel Hoffmann.
    • Other Title: Jisei.
    Subject(s): Haiku--Translations into English.
    Chinese poetry--Zen authors--Translations into English.
    Chinese poetry--Japan--Translations into English.
    Death--Poetry.
    Publisher: Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle Co., 1986.
    Format: Book
    Description: 366 p. ; 19 cm.
    General Notes: Poems translated from the Japanese.
    Title also represented in Japanese characters.
    Includes indexes.
    Bibliography: p. 343-347.
    ISBN: 0804815054
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL759 .J37 1986

  • The little treasury of one hundred people, one poem each / compiled by Fujiwara no Sadaie ; translated by Tom Galt.
    • Original Title: Ogura hyakunin isshu.
    Galt, Thomas Franklin, 1908-
    Subject(s): Waka--Translations into English.
    Japanese poetry--To 1600--Translations into English.
    Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c1982.
    Series: The Lockert library of poetry in translation Format: Book Description: xii, 106 p. ; 23 cm.
    General Notes: Translation of: Ogura hyakunin isshu.
    English and Japanese.
    Includes index.
    ISBN: 0691065144
    0691013926 (pbk.)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL758.5.O4 E5 1982

  • Written on water : five hundred poems from the Manyoshu / translated by Takashi Kojima ; sketches by Midori Toda.
    • Original Title: Manyoshu.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subject(s): Japanese poetry--To 794--Translations into English.
    Waka--Translations into English.
    Publisher: Rutland, VT : Tuttle, 1995.
    Format: Book
    Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    ISBN: 0804820406
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL758.15 .A3 1995

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Short Stories/Folk Tales - Translated Literature

    Once and forever : the tales of Kenji Miyazawa / translated by John Bester
    Main Author:Miyazawa, Kenji, 1896-1933.
    Publisher:Tokyo ; London : Kodansha, 1993.
    Format:Book
    Description: xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    General Notes:Translation from the Japanese.
    ISBN: 4770017804
    Location:Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number:PL833.I95 A22 1993

  • Tales of times now past : sixty-two stories from a medieval Japanese collection
    • Main Author: Ury, Marian.
    Subject(s): Japanese literature--Translations into English.
    Short stories, Japanese.
    Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1979.
    Format: Book
    Description: xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
    General Notes: Selected from Konjaku monogadori, a 12th century anthology.
    ISBN: 0520038649
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PL775 .U79

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Selected Readings on Japanese History

    Barefoot Gen : the day after : a cartoon story of Hiroshima / Keiji Nakazawa ; translated by Dadakai and Project Gen.
    Original Title: Hadashi no Gen.
    Main Author: Nakazawa, Keiji.
    Publisher: London ; New York : Penguin, 1990.
    Format: Book
    Description: xxi, 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
    General Notes: Originally published: New York : New Society Publishers, 1990.
    Translation of: Hadashi no Gen.
    ISBN: 0140118098 (pbk)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PN6790.J33 N33 1990

  • Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun / by Rhoda Blumberg.
    • Main Author: Blumberg, Rhoda.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subject(s): Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 --Juvenile literature.
    United States Naval Expedition to Japan 1852-1854--Juvenile literature.
    United States--Foreign relations--Japan--Juvenile literature.
    Japan--Foreign relations--United States--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1985.
    Format: Book
    Description: 144 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
    Summary: Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
    General Notes: Includes index.
    Bibliography: p. 139-140.
    ISBN: 0688037232
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: DS881.8 .B53 1985

  • Hiroshima no pika / words and pictures by Toshi Maruki.
    • Original Title: Hiroshima no pika.
    Main Author: Maruki, Toshi, 1912-
    Subject(s): Atomic bomb--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--Juvenile literature.
    World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Juvenile literature.
    Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Juvenile literature.
    Japan--History--1912-1945--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1982, c1980.
    Format: Book
    Description: [48] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 25 cm.
    Summary: A retelling of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the Flash that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
    General Notes: Translation of: Hiroshima no pika.
    ISBN: 0688012973
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PZ4.5.Hist M378 1980

  • Miracle at Midway / by Charles Mercer.
    • Main Author: Mercer, Charles E.
    Subject(s): Midway, Battle of, 1942--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Putnam, c1977.
    Format: Book
    Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
    Summary: Recreates the naval battle between Japanese and American forces which was
    the decisive factor in the Pacific theater during World War II. General Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN: 0399206124
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PZ4.5.Hist M473 1977

  • Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
    • Main Author: Coerr, Eleanor.
    Leukemia in children--Juvenile literature.
    Atomic bomb--Physiological effect--Juvenile literature.
    Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Putnam, c1977.
    Format: Book
    Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
    ISBN: 0399205209. 0399610103
    Location: Regents Center Library (Edwards Campus)
    Call Number: RJ416.L4 C63

  • A samurai castle / Fiona Macdonald, [illustrators] David Antram, John James.
    • Main Author: Macdonald, Fiona.
    James, John, 1959- Subject(s): Samurai--Juvenile literature.
    Castles--Japan--Juvenile literature.
    Japan--History--1185-1868--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : P. Bedrick Books, c1995.
    Series: Inside story (Peter Bedrick Books)
    Format: Book
    Description: 48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
    Summary: Traces the history of the samurai castles of medieval Japan with information on the role of samurai, shogun, and women in feudal Japanese society, on religious beliefs,
    and on arms and armor of the period. General Notes: Includes index.
    ISBN: 0872263819
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: DS827.S3 M33 1995

  • War in the deep : Pacific submarine action in World War II / by Edwin P. Hoyt.
    • Main Author: Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.
    Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine--Juvenile literature.
    World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American--Juvenile literature.
    World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, Japanese--Juvenile literature.
    World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Putnam, c1978.
    Format: Book Description: 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
    Summary: A detailed account of American and Japanese submarine operations in
    the Pacific during World War II.
    General Notes: Includes index.
    Bibliography: p. 149.
    ISBN: 0399206299
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PZ4.5.Hist H698 1978

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Selected Readings on Japanese Society

    The industrialization of Japan [by] John G. Roberts.
    Main Author: Roberts, John G.
    Subject(s): Industries--Japan--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York, Watts [1971]
    Format: Book
    Description: 88 p. illus. 23 cm.
    Summary: Chronicles the changes within Japan that enabled her to become one
    of the world's leading industrial nations.
    ISBN: 0531007472
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: HC462 .R6

  • Japan / Vincent Bunce.
    • Main Author: Bunce, Vincent J.
    Subject(s): Human geography--Japan--Juvenile literature.
    Japan--Civilization--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Franklin Watts, c1994.
    Series: Places and people
    Format: Book
    Description: 32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
    Summary: Examines how Japan's geography influenced its social, economic,
    and political structure.
    General Notes: Includes index.
    ISBN: 0531142701
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: DS821 .B699 1994

  • Obon / by Ruth Suyenaga ; illustrated by Yoshi Miyake.
    • Main Author: Suyenaga, Ruth.
    Subject(s): Holidays--Japan--Juvenile fiction.
    Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
    Multicultural education--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Modern Curriculum Press, c1994.
    Series: Multicultural celebrations
    Format: Book
    Description: 23 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
    Summary: Maile meets her shy cousin for the first time in Hawaii, where her family has gathered to celebrate the Japanese Obon festival.
    ISBN: 0813623227
    0813623219 (soft cover)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: PZ7.S96913 Ob 1994

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Selected Readings on Japanese Immigration

    A child in prison camp by Takashima.
    Main Author: Takashima, Shizuye.
    Subject(s): Takashima, Shizuye.
    New Denver (B.C.). Relocation Center--Juvenile literature.
    Japanese--British Columbia--Juvenile literature.
    World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians.
    Publisher: New York, Morrow, 1974 [c1971]
    Format: Book
    Description: 63 p. illus. (part col.) 31 cm.
    Summary: A Japanese-Canadian girl recounts the experiences of the three years she
    and her family spent in a Canadian internment camp during World War II.
    ISBN: 068820113X 0688301134 (lib. bdg.)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: folio D768.15 .T34 1974

  • The journey : Japanese Americans, racism and renewal / painting and text by Sheila Hamanaka ; book design by Steve Frederick.
    • Main Author: Hamanaka, Sheila.
    Subject(s): Japanese Americans--History--Juvenile literature.
    Japanese Americans--History--Pictorial works--Juvenile literature.
    Japanese Americans in art--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, c1990.
    Format: Book
    Description: 39 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
    Summary: Text and photographed details of a mural depict the history of the Japanese people in America. General Notes: A Richard Jackson book--Half t.p.
    "10+/5+"--Jacket.
    Includes index.
    ISBN: 0531058492
    0531084493 (lib. bdg.)
    Location: Watson Library Stacks
    Call Number: E184.J3 H35 1990

  • Making a new home in America / by Maxine B. Rosenberg ; illustrated with photographs by George Ancona.
    • Main Author: Rosenberg, Maxine B.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Format: Book
    Description: [48] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
    Summary: Text and photographs present the stories of five children who have come to the United States as immigrants or resident aliens from Japan, Cuba, India, Guyana, and Vietnam.
    ISBN: 0688058248
    0688058256 (lib. bdg.)
    Location: Regents Center Library (Edwards Campus)
    Call Number: JV6450 .R67 1986

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Selected Readings on Japanese Arts & Crafts

    The Eastern Gate : an invitation to the arts of China and Japan / Janet Gaylord Moore.
    Main Author: Moore, Janet Gaylord.
    Subject(s): Art, Chinese--Juvenile literature.
    Art, Japanese--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: Cleveland : Collins, 1979.
    Format: Book
    Description: 296 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
    Summary: An illustrated introduction to the sculpture, painting, and architecture of China and Japan.
    General Notes: Includes index.
    Bibliography: p. 273-280.
    ISBN: 0529054345
    Location: Art & Architecture Library
    Call Number: N7337 .M66

  • Happy origami; the Japanese art of paper folding.
    • Main Author: Miyawaki, Tatsuo.
    Subject(s): Origami--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: [Hiroshima, Biken-sha; exclusive distributors, Japan Publications Trading Co., Tokyo, c1960]
    Format: Book
    Description: 2 v. illus. (part mounted col.) 20 x 27 cm.
    Table of Contents [1] Whale book. [2] Swallow book.
    General Notes: Cover title.
    Colored papers for folding in pockets.
    Location: Art & Architecture Library
    Call Number: TT870 .M492 1960
    Holdings: v.1

  • Pop-up origami.
    • Main Author: Miyawaki, Tatsuo.
    Subject(s): Origami--Juvenile literature.
    Publisher: [Hiroshima, Biken-Sha; exclusive distributors: Japan Publications Trading Co., Tokyo, Rutland, Vt., c1962]
    Series: Johnnie book
    Format: Book
    Description: [1] 8 col. illus. 20 cm.
    General Notes: Cover title.
    Each illus is preceded by a leaf of cut-out patterns.
    Location: Art & Architecture Library
    Call Number: TT870 .M493 1962

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