North Point Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. 416 pages. A collection of Ainu texts, stories and legends of the aboriginal people of Japan. Near fine in wrappers (paperback) in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine and a small tear to the spine head.
1901-1903. Ephemera. 10 letters (7 by Charles, 3 by Mary) totaling 15 pages, all to Mr. Russell Spokes, who seems to have been a legal or business advisor. Two of the letters give no year and the date of another is in question (Oct. 19, 1901?); the other seven ar.....
Japan Society, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 276 pages. 10-1/4 by 14-1/2 inches. Catalog for a 1977 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Japan House Gallery and the Kimbell Art Museum. Illustrated mostly in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). In stiff wraps with illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy.....
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. 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.....
The Macmillan Company, 1905. Hardcover. 549 pages. First edition (later, 1905 printing). Near fine copy with gilt chrysanthemum decoration on brown cloth covers. Lettering and decoration in gilt and black. Slight edge and corner wear. Spine edges rolled. No dust jacket.
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. BAL 7929. First edition (later printing). Near fine copy in gilt-decorated tourquoise cloth. TEG. Title page in red and black. Spine with period following Co. Slight fading to spine. No dust jacket.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
[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.
Mirubukkusu ; Sankuchuaripaburisshingu. November 2013. Unknown.
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.....