Japan Today & Tomorrow #2 Art Current Events 1928 Osaka Mainichi color Magazine

Description: Japan Today & Tomorrow #2 Art Current Events 1928 Osaka Mainichi color Magazine (Old Magazines, Early 20th Century Magazines, Art History, Japan, Illustrated Magazines, Vintage Advertising). Japan Today and Tomorrow.- Number 2. Published Dec. 1928, Japan by The Osaka Mainichi Publishing Co. 176 pages. Text in English. Profusely illustrated throughout, including 10 color plates with tissue guards. Nice assortment of dated advertising as well, often illustrated. Nice early 20th century annual magazine packed with interesting and pleasing visual content. Issued by a major newspaper. Binding remains clean, tight, and sound, various mostly small signs of age, time and handling, nothing offensive or major. Overall a nice looking example. Small age flaws or defects include possible random old creasing, edge chipping, small light old staining, creases, etc. Overall entirely acceptable example of what is a scarce survival. The pictures give a very good sense of how the item survives. Virtually all periodicals of this era are somewhat scarce today as loose complete issues. Like most random survivals of old periodical printing, any specific example (like this one) is likely among a relative handful still extant. As each decade goes back from 1950, the rate of scarcity for any specific magazine or paper item increases noticeably. Text block remains overall clean, and displays a pleasing age patina. Magazine remains attractive on the shelf. It displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique item survives. This item is not new- it is old and has been handled by different owners in the past. Magazine Measures c. 15" H x 10 1/2" W. [B12727].

Price: 156 USD

Location: Dover, New Hampshire

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