Kokuho 3: National Treasures of Japan. 11th - 12th Centuries
Mainichi Newspapers. Hardcover. large folio; part of set of 12 volumes.
Mainichi Newspapers. Hardcover. large folio; part of set of 12 volumes.
Asiatic Society of Japan, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 307 pages. Includes U. A. Casal, Some Notes on the Sakazuki and on the Role of Sake Drinking in Japan; James A. Rabbit, Rice in the Cultural Life of the Japanese People; and Shigeo Kishibe, On the Origin of the P'i P'a.....
Tuttle Pub, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Featuring the distinctive style of Amy Sylvester Katoh and the photos of Yutaka Satoh, the expression of blue and white in Japanese design takes myriad forms, from the ephemeral beauty of a wind-blown noren curtain to the geometric boldness of zabuton cushions, to the.....
1951. Trade Paperback. 59 mimeographed pages, 8.5 x 14 inches. Senate Resolution 187 was introduced by Benton and called for the Senate to 'make such further investigation with respect to the participation of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950 Senatorial campaign of Senator John Marshall Butler and such investigation with.....
The Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Paginated xv-xvii, 2-190 and 192-398. Each volume 13 by 16-1/4 inches. From a limited edition of 980 numbered copies; there were also 20 lettered copies hors commerce. 'First published by J. B. Millet Company, Boston, in 1897 - 8, in a range of editions. This.....
Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 79 pages. Benn's Sixpenny Library, No. 44. First edition (first printing). Very good in decorated orange wappers (paperback).
Cobblestone Press, 1978. First Edition Thus. Unknown. 6 pages. The first edition of the Cobblestone Press Wee Series. First edition thus. Designed paper label on front cover.
Kinseido Ltd., 1955. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 148 pages. Modern English series. Notes in Japanese. Text in English. First edition thus. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
(International College of California), 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 119 pages. Color photographic illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in red cloth with white lettering. No dust jacket. Rear cover mildly faded.
Herb Gold, 1975. Ephemera. Zigler served as Press Secretary to President Richard Nixon and, at 29, was the youngest White House Press Secretary in history. He called the Watergate break-in a 'third-rate burglary attempt' and repeatedly dismissed reports by Bernstein and Woodward. He remained a stauch defender of Nixon until.....
H, Nishimura's Lacquer Factory, n.d., ca. 1968. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 17 numbered pages plus 2 additional pages with B/W photographs of treasures with descriptions. Oblong format, 5 x 7.25 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated pink wrappers (paperback).
Oscar and Betty Lewis, n.d. Ephemera. One sheet folded, oblong format, 11.25 x 7.5 inches, when folded. Kameyama (Clearing After Snow) Japanese wood-block print by Hiroshige tipped-in on inside. Greeting of the Season from Oscar and Betty Lewis in red ink on outside. A near fine copy.
[n/a], 1963-1964. Ephemera. Two hand-written letters from a 15-year old Japanese girl to a U. S. navalman whom she met when the ship stopped in Hokkaido in 1963. Five leaves written in English on rectos only and illustrated with her drawings. Accompanied by four black-and-white photographs, three of her alone.....
Washington State University, June 1997. Trade Paperback. In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and a Chincook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English.....
Edward Smyth Jones, 1915. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 12 pages. Frontispiece tipped-in photographic portrait of author. Tipped-in photographic portrait of Lincoln precedes the poem. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback) with yapped edges, stapled. Scarce.
Charles H. Kerr & Co. Co-operative, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 147 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Roughly 5 by 7 inches. 'This little book is the first attempt to give to the English speaking public a history of the labor and socialist movement in Japan.' By an early member of the American.....
Stone Bridge Press, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. From the Introduction Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. The immediate catalyst for this book was a widely publicized.....
Gregg International Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. Volume I: 416 pages. Volume II: 439 pages. Reprint of the 1876 edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine 2-volume set. No dust jackets.
Valley of the Temples Corporation, n.d. Trade Paperback. Includes one color image on the frontispiece and 32 black-and-white photo reproductions of the original Byodo-In temple in Kyoto to promote the construction of the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in Hawaii, which features a replica of the Byodo-In temple. Published.....