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Michener, James The Floating World New York Random House 1954 2nd printing 8vo Black cloth & white 1/2 boards Spine slightly faded & front cover corners worn. Books 403pp incl.index Illus. In color & b/white The author explains that the ambition of this book was to try to provide an account of the life and death of an art. He tries to identify the relationship of certain great individual figures to the ebb and flow of a total art. Thirdly, in this book the author tries to explain what happens to an art when a powerful and practical civil government begins to regulate all aspects of that art & fourthly, this book endeavors to bring home to the American people the stunning fact that our museums contain the world's finest collection of Japanese prints. Price: 45.00 USD
