The Book Shed

Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket; spotting to the covers, offsetting to endpapers, extensive gift inscription and previous owner's stamp to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked; jacket is rubbed, sunned, several closed tears. First published in 1931. Second printing of the 1946 revised edition. Sir George Bailey Sansom GBE KCMG (1883 – 1965) was a British diplomat and historian of pre-modern Japan, particularly noted for his historical surveys and his attention to Japanese society and culture. "When Sir George Sansom's Japan: A Short Cultural History appeared in 1931, it raised the study of Japanese history in the West to new levels. Its penetrating analysis of institutions, sensitive interpretations of cultural developments, and stylistic charm contrasted with the plodding pedestrian surveys and over-written anecdotal accounts that had hitherto served in the Occident as introductions to Japanese history."--Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard professor and leading scholar in Japanese history and culture (and future United States Ambassador to Japan). Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!