Tales from the Japanese Storytellers as collected in the Ho-Dan-Zo by Post Wheeler

Selection from the tales of the Japanese Storytellers, collected by Post Wheeler in the Ho-Dan-Zo in the early 20th-Century; the Japanese Storytellers travelled Japan in the continuation of a great literary oral tradition; Wheeler served as an American Foreign Service officer in the period when the storytellers were still widely practicing their profession; one of the limited first edition (750 copies); half-cloth with red titling to front and spine, and Weatherhill motif blind-embossed to front board, decorative endpapers, title page and story headings throughout; light offset from text decorations, o.w. Very Good tight and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly tanned to spine, o.w. Very Good (mylar protected).