Hakone Garden, Tanso Ishihara, Gloria Wickham, 1974, Very Good w/Good DJ

Ishihara, Tanso, and Gloria Wickham. Hakone Garden (Kyoto: Kawara Shoten, 1974).

English, First Edition, Limited Edition, No. 295 of 1000 copies, a Very Good book in a Good dust jacket, Very Good overall, HC, 10 1/4" x 7 1/4," 172 pp., including illustrations and Selected Subject Index.

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First Edition. Limited Edition. No. 295 of 1000 copies. Very Good white paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Covers are slightly bowed outward and have slight edge wear, else clean and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Good black-and-white pictorial paper dust jacket with gilt lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has small chips along edges and tips (largest chip is 1" x 3/4" at top edge on front), splitting along joint between front flap and front panel, and light to moderate age toning, else clean and intact. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with printed photographic illustrations in black-and-white and color. Beautiful book featuring Hakone Garden in Saratoga, California. Includes many printed photos showing the retreat's gardens and architecture. Hakone Garden is one of the oldest Japanese-style gardens in the Western Hemisphere. The gardens came into existence when two art patrons from San Francisco, Oliver and Isabel Stine, commissioned Japanese architects and landscape designers to build a private summer retreat in Saratoga. Isabel wanted the garden to resemble Fugi-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan. Construction for the retreat began in 1917 and was completed in 1929. Over the years, additions to the garden have been made with the most recent one, the Cultural Exchange Center, having been completed in 1991.