[Signed] Life and Resources in America Arinori Mori (Prepared Under the Direction of) [ ] [Hardcover]

First Edition. 12mo. 404pp. + engraved frontispiece. Bound in the original full cloth with blindstamped decoration. Signed by the author, with inscription, on the front free endpaper: Prof. Seelye Compliments of Arinori Mori. | Viscount Arinori was the infamous Japanese ambassador to the United States who was assassinated in 1889, the same day as the institution of the Meiji Constitution, which was considered by Japanese nationalists to be a Westernizing of Japan. The inscription is to Prof. Seelye who, with other academics and dignitaries, carried on a correspondence with Mori published by Appleton in 1873 and titled Education in Japan: A Series of Letters Addressed by Prominent Americans to Arinori Mori. [Howes M809] GOOD. Shows some chipping at the topmost and bottommost of the spine, a chip from the cloth at the spine, a numbered label at the bottommost of the spine, slightly cocked, an institutional presentation bookplate and withdrawn stamp on the front paste-down, an institutional stamp of the title page, light off-set mark of the frontispiece at the title page, some light handling marks in the margins of the preliminary pages, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain relatively distinct. As pictured.