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).
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.....
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).
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.
University Of Chicago Press, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 301 pages. B/W illustrations. First paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Writers know only too well how long it can take--and how awkward it can be--to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a......
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).
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
[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.....
Shueisha. Art - Original.
Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti's story, cast in the form of.....
Akaaka Art Publishing, June 2006. Hardcover.
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.....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 494 pages plus 45 black-and-white plates. A significant contribution to German-language Japan theater studies. Often cited in the academic literature. Includes chapters on various performing arts, including Noh, Kabuki, puppet theater, and modern Japanese theater. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a......
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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.....
Macmillan, January 1968. Hardcover.
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.....
(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.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. Three sections: Japan--the country; Japanese people; and Japanese ways and thoughts. Black-and-white illustrations by Robert Blum. Arnold, a British writer, lived in Japan in the 1880s and married a Japanese woman. First edition (first printing). Spine ends and corners a bit.....
Mainichi Newspapers. Hardcover. large folio; part of set of 12 volumes.