Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions From A Master Craftsman

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A compendium of quotations from J.G. Ballard's fiction, plus impossible-to-find articles and interviews. This is the first time Ballard's philosophic views have been edited into one volume, grouped by topic. A companion to J.G. Ballard: Interviews, this could be the 21st-century version of the Portable Shakespeare

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Kojiro Ikegami, third generation in a line of professional bookbinders, is one of the few full-time practitioners of the craft in Japan. He has repaired innumerable antiquarian books, many designated as national treasures or important cultural properties, at his workshop in the Tokyo National Museum. In 1979 he received a distinguished government awardthe Sixth Class Order of the Rising Sunfor his contribution to the conservation of significant books in Japan's history. Recently retired, he is succeeded by his son Yukio, who continues the family profession at the museum workshop and at their home studio in Tokyo.