[Text in Japanese] 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition

Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (23.5 x 24.5cm.); white paper boards in light green paper wrapper with gilt lettering; 50 unpaginated color plates. Text block has light handling wear and thumb creasing, but overall clean and sound; Fine. Wrappers show sunning along spine, with sunning and creasing along upper margins as well. Spine slightly pushed at crown and chipped on heel; Near Fine+. An exhibition catalog from the 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition (Nihon Bonsai Sakufuuten) at the Daimaru Grand Hall department store in Tokyo. Features 50 fine full-color photographic plates of special and selected prize-winning bonsai exhibits, plus biographical information of featured bonsai artists. All text in Japanese.