Le Théâtre japonais (Kabuki) Jacques de Brunhoff chez Jules Meynial
Paris 1933 | 28,5 x 38,5 cm | in original wrappers
First edition printed in 500 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only issue, our copy unjustified.
Illustrated with 32 superb colour plates and 48 in-text black and white illustrations.
Serge Elisséeff, a great orientalist of Russian origin, established in Paris in the 1920s and then in the United States, was the first director of the Yenching-Institut at Harvard. He will then become famous by developing, during the Second World War, a rapid teaching of Japanese and Chinese for the armies sent to the Pacific.
Superb and rare copy free from foxing of the most beautiful illustrated book on Kabuki.