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Hard cover, 8vo, in spruce color paper-covered boards with an applied paper label printed in green to the spine. A tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration in color, in addition to six others in black and white within text. Condition: Very Good Minus. Small losses to the spine label and a few light spots to covers. Moderate foxing affects about half of the interior pages, and the edges of the text block. Ownership inscription in ballpoint dated Hawaii 1914 to ffep. **Edinburgh-born Author Dr. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958 ) is best known for her pioneering books on women's contraception. (Married Love, 1918) But she was also a trained scientist, in particular, studying paleobotany, specializing in the examination of fossil evidence to date early ferns and coal deposits. This work took her to Japan in 1907, where she researched at the Imperial University of Tokyo for a period of eighteen months. It is presumably during this time that she became interested in the traditional Japanese theater, known as Nō', or utai. The volume gives a cultural history of the Nō' as well as English translations of "The Maiden's Tomb," "Kagekiyo", "Tamura", and "The Sumida River." OCLC1325382863. A Note on the Provenance: This book was originally owned by Cornelia H. Moodey, with her inscription and the words "Hawaii, 1914" on the ffep. Ms. Moodey is listed among the attendees of the seventy-fifth birthday reception given the last native Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani in 1913, as described in The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 9/6/1913, p. 13. Liliuokalni was dethroned, peacefully, by sugar barons and other white businessmen on the island. Our book stock No. 8840, Almira Pitman's "After Fifty Years" continues the story upon Liliuokalani's death in 1917, detailing the voyage of the Chieftess's son, Benjamin Franklin Pitman, a half-Hawaiian department store executive in Boston, to ceremonially take up her place.
Ref: FAR 8855
$55.00