
Diary of a Sparrow by Kazuko Watanabe. The Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. (1999) #106 of 125 copies.
The Diary of a Sparrow by Kazuko Watanabe. The Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. (1999) #106 of 125 copies. This inscribed by Kazuko Watanabe below the statement of limitation. 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 unpaginated hardcover with tissue dust jacket. DUST JACKET has no design. There is wear , small tears, about a 1/2" diameter hole on the back panel. BOOK has 10 preliminary pages: 2 blank, 1 title, 1 limitation, copyright, 1 contents backed by a blank, 3 preface and this backed by designed page - the 8 smaller sections each from 2 to 6 pages, separated by thick paper pages of art. These sections are "illustrated by the author with Japanese characters and original color etchings. Hinged and folded to be read as a conventional book or as a three-dimensional book-sculpture." - https://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/creativecodex/items/show/42. There is light wear to the bottom of the spine. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No unpublished tears, folds or creases to pages. Bindin