Nihon Kado-Sha, 1974. Cloth bound hardcover with clear plastic protector of Ikenoba Ikebana: A Concise Text by Mary C. Takahashi.

Mary Takahashi has signed and inscribed the front free end paper.

Errata page taped inside the back cover.

"One of the excellent teachers who teaches flower arrangement to Americans as a professional in the United States is Mary Takahashi, who is Japanese-American... From the thought that she ought to master the highest technique of the mind in order to teach it, she would often come to the Rokkakudo Temple, in Kyoto, where Japanese flower arrangement was created, and study eagerly for two or three months at a time." -Headmaster Senei Ikenobo

Acceptable. Front cover is bowed out at the outer edge. Foxing to the interior pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Solid reading copy.