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138 - (Japan) – BONNEAU (Georges). Poetic Expression in Japanese F…
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(Japan) – BONNEAU (Georges). Poetic Expression in Japanese Folklore. Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1933. 3 volumes, in-8, paperback, untrimmed. 1/ Poets and Peasants: the twenty-six-syllable verse of scholarly origin. 104 pp. – 2/ The Oral Tradition of Fixed Form: the twenty-six-syllable song. 192 pp. 3/ Oral Tradition and Free Forms: The Songs of Kyûshû. 189 pp., [1 f.]. Included: - BONNEAU (Georges). An Introduction to Japanese Ideography. The Forest of Symbols. Tokyo, Maison franco-japonaise, 1933. In-8, publisher’s binding, cloth spine. 248 pp., [2 ff.]. - BONNEAU (Georges). Japanese Sensibility. Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1935. In-8, paperback, uncut. XXXIX, 395 pp., [2 ff., plates]. - BONNEAU (Georges). Anthology of Japanese Poetry. Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1935. In-8, paperback, untrimmed, cardboard slipcase. XL, 267 pp., [2 ff.], illustrations in separate sheets. In mint condition. - HARICH-SCHNEIDER (Eta). Roei. The Medieval Court Songs of Japan. Tokyo, Sophia University Press, 1965. In-8, paperback. [3 ff.], 132 pp., one plate, musical notation.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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