{"product_id":"2026100011359-secondhand-japanese-garland-signed","title":"Japanese Garland (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: No. 116 0f 390 copies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of England's most celebrated Georgian poets comes Japanese Garland, a luminous collection of verse inspired by Edmund Blunden's time spent in Japan during the 1920s. Blunden, already acclaimed for his pastoral war poetry in Undertones of War, here turns his exquisitely sensitive eye toward the landscapes, people, and quiet ceremonies of the Far East, weaving together observations that are at once delicate, reverent, and suffused with the kind of melancholic wonder that defines his finest work. Each poem in the collection presents Japan as both a physical place and a state of the imagination — a land of lanterns, rivers, and silences that Blunden renders with the painterly precision of an Imagist and the emotional depth of a Romantic.\n\nProduced with extraordinary care by The Beaumont Press in 1928 — with cover and decorations by Eileen Mayo, a title-page by A. J. Vaughan, and typography arranged by Cyril William Beaumont — this volume is itself a work of art, a testament to the fine press tradition that valued the book as an aesthetic object. Blunden's style in Japanese Garland is restrained and lyrical, drawing on classical English prosody while absorbing subtle Eastern influences, creating a cross-cultural dialogue that remains quietly radical. For admirers of Georgian poetry, fine press printing, and the literature of encounter, this rare collection is an object of enduring fascination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573323370715,"sku":"2026100011359-SECONDHAND","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2c125124-4dd1-49fd-830c-69e6c13a5500.png?v=1791167942","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011359-secondhand-japanese-garland-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}