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Pebble in the Sky [Japanese edition]
Hayakawa. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Japan
A History of Japan
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).
醉酒的植物学家(创造了世界名酒的植物)/自然文库 (The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks)
商务印书馆.The Commercial Press, 2017. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 404 pages. B/W illustrations. First Japanese edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
William Whewell, D. D.: An Account of his Writings. With selections from his literary and scientific correspondence (Two volume set)
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.
A Handbook of Modern Japan
A. C. McClurg & Co., 1904. Hardcover. 395 pages. Fold-out 'Official Map of the Empire of Japan.' B/W illustrations on coated paper. Second edition. Near fine copy in illustrated green cloth covers with lettering in bright gilt and illustrations on light green background on front cover and spine. No dust.....
We Japanese: Being Descriptions of Many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japaneses, Besides Numerous Other Subjects. Book One and Two
Fujiya Hotel, Inc., 1936-7. Trade Paperback. Book One, 200 pp. Book Two, 207 pp. Printed on traditional rice paper with fore-edge of paper uncut. In silk-patterned covers. Book One, third printing, 1936. Book Two, first edition, 1937. Fine condition. Both volumes inscribed and dated by H. S. K. Yamaguchi. Both.....
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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......
Under the Mistletoe
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.
Two Cheers for Democracy
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).
The Labor Movement in Japan
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.....
'At Motel with Ron Zigler.' 6 page typed manuscript with holograh corrections. Part of article 'The Western White House Did Not Fall.' Esquire April, 1975
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.....
Kameyama. Clearing After Snow. Greetings of the Season
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.
The Sylvan Cabin. Panama-Pacific International Exposition Number
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.
Byodo-in (Buddhist Temples in Japan)
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.....
The Japan Experience
Weatherhill, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. '17 outsiders view Japan from the inside in provacative interviews' -- from the jacket cover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with a bit of edge wear, and light fading and slight lean to the spine. Spotting.....
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Stone Bridge Press, July 1994. Trade Paperback. 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 tea event in Japan.....
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2004. Trade Paperback. When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was.....
Letters From Japanese Girl to U. S. Navyman
[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.....
The handmade LEE special editing the 'living' it fun ISBN: 4081020477 (2003) [Japanese Import]
Shueisha. Art - Original.
Hamingubado : Itingu.
Mirubukkusu ; Sankuchuaripaburisshingu. November 2013. Unknown.
The Chrysantheme Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysantheme and Other Documents of French Japonisme
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.....
Kasetsu: A Dwelling for Writing Characters
Akaaka Art Publishing, June 2006. Hardcover.
Blue and White Japan
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.....
The Book of Tea: The Illustrated Classic Edition
Tuttle Publishing, October 2000. Hardcover. Written in 1906 by a future philosopher, curator and Zen teacher, this book, which was intended to be read aloud in a famous salon, interweaves the history of tea with Japanese society. It also contains essays on spirituality, poetry and art.
Japans Schaukunst im Wandel der Zeiten
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......