Chefs-D'Oeuvre de Tchikamatsou. Le Grand Dramaturge Japonais (Masterpieces by Chikamatsu. The Great Japanese Playwright)
Paris: Librairie Ernes Leroux, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xi, 417 (1)pp., 70 plates. Original beige stiff wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Works of the highly regarded playwright. Chikamatsu reinvented the banal puppet theater to become a pseudo-epic style: Ningyo-Joruri..... More