The nightside of Japan. With forty illustrations, specially drawn by Japanese artists for the volume.

8vo : xii-238 pp.

Orange cloth (sl. soiled), flat spine with paper title label, orange endpapers. Good, uncut copy.

Third ed. (1st 1914) of this vivid account of the more unusual aspects of Japanese night-life, incl. geisha, fireworks, variety halls, public baths, amateur wrestling... Ill. with col. frontisp. and many b/w ill. out of text. The text was translated quite literally from the orig. Japanese ms., because "revision would have destroyed much of its quaint charm and oriental atmosphere" (preface). Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper. Joined: Chamberlain, B. H. - Things Japanese, being notes on various subjects connected with Japan, for the use of travellers and others. London, Murray, 1905, 8vo, gilt green publ. cloth, 552 pp. 5th, revised ed. (1st 1890) of this popular encyclopedia. With large col. fold. map of Japan. (2 vol.)