The Soul of a Tree. A Woodworker's Reflections
New York: Kodansha International, 1988. Folio (11.75 x 8.75 inches). xxi, 221 pages. Photographs by G. Barrows, G. W. Holland, Dana Levy, Osamu Murai, Ezra Stoller, and Hiroshi Suga; line drawings by the author. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A very good plus copy with some pale foxing in the upper margins, the jacket clean and well preserved. Item #409042
The fourth printing, published in 1988 (the first was in 1981). Signed and dated April 19th, 1990 by George Nakashima on the front free endpaper, just two months before the artist died on June 15. With an introduction by Nakashima's friend and Nobel Laureate, Dr. George Wald. Signed copies of Nakashima's creative autobiography are scarce.
Price: $1,500.00