Tokyo: Square Enix, 2006. Soft Cover. 12mo. Text primarily in Japanese. Scarce. Soft cover, in dust jacket and sleeve. 327 pp. Some light bumping to extremities, spine slightly tilted. Fine overall. The Gate has been opened, and the Elric brothers journey has started again. Edward has become 18 years old..... More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition with full number line. xxiii, 343 p.p. Sixteen unnumbered pages of B&W photos. Quarter bound in black cloth with brown paper boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine ends, else fine. Small spot of soiling to fore..... More
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. Soft Cover. 8vo (small). [Ca. 1890]. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 3. Orig. illustrated wrappers made from washi paper and bound in fukoro toji style at the spine, [9] leaves. Colour woodblock illustrations. Light soiling otherwise near fine. More
Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1948. Sturges, Katherine. Hard Cover. 4to. 191 p.p. Blue cloth boards with colour illustrated onlay and gilt lettering to spine and front board. Front board is discoloured in a few places, light rubbing to fore edge, rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners..... More
Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1956. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter red cloth with blue cloth boards, brown spine lables and gilt lettering and pointelle decoration to spine. Gilt letting and mask device to upper front board. Pictorial endpapers. x, 374 p.p. Slight sunning to edges. Dust jacket has chip to..... More
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (small). First Printing. Brown cloth, 78pp. Illustrated. Errata slip tipped-in; about fine in d/w, front inner jacket cliped. The Origin & Development and Materials of the Netsuke are discussed, with many illustrations showing the world of..... More
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. Soft Cover. 12mo (small). [Ca. 1880-189-?] Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 13. Orig. illustrated washi paper wrappers with fukoro toji style binding at spine, [12] leaves. Colour woodblock illustrations. Light staining to leaves, some soiling to wrappers, otherwise very good. More
Paris: Editions Albert Morance. Soft Cover. 8vo. French. Grey stiff card wraps, sewn and glued binding. [n.d., ca. 1922 per WorldCat]. 152 p.p. [12] duotone plates, incl. frontis, w/ tissue guards. Darkening to spine and edges, bumping to extremities, 2" crack to spine head, a few short tears. A directory..... More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). [n.d., ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments. Red speckled fore and tail edges. General index to volume VII. Ex-libris stickers to front..... More
Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Volume 6. First English Edition. Orig. decorative cloth, 181pp. Illustrated. About fine in a lightly worn but o/w near fine d/w with some small tears at spine. The art and treasures held in the Shoso-in repository. More
London: Jonathon Cape, 1927. Hardcover. 16mo. First Traveler's Library Edition. 223pp, (11)ads. Medium foxing throughout, name on ff/ endpaper, some markings to boards with light bumping to coners o/w very good. A collection of strange tales from Japan. More
Tokyo: The Christian Literature Society, 1958. Hard Cover. 12mo. Blue cloth boards. Advertisements to endpapers. viii, 362 p.p., [46] p.p. advertisements. Two fold-out tables of church statistics. Sunning to spine, wear to spine head, bumping to corners. Stain to fore edge of text block. Creasing to upper corner of a...... More
New York: Issued Under the Auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations By the John Day Company, 1942. Hardcover. 12mo. Enlarged Edition With a Supplement for the Years 1938 to 1942 by George E. Taylor. Orig. orange cloth, 207pp. Illustrated with maps. From the library of C.B. Farrar..... More
Tokyo: The Ishi Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Translated by John Power. Soft cover. 304 pp. Slight sunning and scuff to head of spine. A few small stains to top and fore edge of text block. This brilliant and original survey of joseki, written by the leading Japanese..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books in Association with Callaway, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to. Illustrated wrappers, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Celebrating the work of femaile designer Eiko. More
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. Soft Cover. 12mo (small). [Ca. 1890] Japanese Fairy Tales Series No. 14. Orig. illustrated wrappers on washi paper, bound in fukoro toji style at spine, [14] leaves. Colour woodblock illustrations. Light damp staining and soiling to leaves and wrappers but still very good. More
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. Soft Cover. 12mo (small). [Ca. 1890s]. Japanse Fairy Tale Series No. 16. Illustrated wrappers, printed on washi paper and bound in fukoro toji style at the spine, [14] leaves. Colour woodblock illustrations. Light foxing, some fading to wrappers otherwise very good. More
Tokyo: The Ishi Press, 1976. Soft Cover. 8vo. The Ishi Press Go Series. Paperback, 203pp. Illustrated. Light fading on covers and light edge wear o/w about fine. More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Kazue Mizumura. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. red and blue quarter-cloth, gilt device to lower front board, 62pp. Illustrated. Some pencil markings to ff/ endpaper and small label, light wear to spine and extremities, o/w very good in a somewhat soiled but very good..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback, xvii, 211pp. Fine. Collection of essays on previously unstudied areas of Japanese history. More
Japan: Science and Engineering, 1986. Hard Cover. 8vo. Japanese. [238 p.p.] Cream paper boards with brown floral device to front board and title to spine. Bump to front board at tail edge. Dust jacket has some bumping to edges and light chafing, else fine. Laid-in ephemera in Japanese. Hideyasu Sasaki..... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. xii, 381 p.p. Paperback. Small markings along covers. Interior clean, near fine copy. More
London: Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co. Hard Cover. 8vo. 1846-5. Scarce. Three volumes bound in one, with 8 issues total. Various pagination. Includes Volume I: No. 12 (June 1864); Volume II: No. 13 (August 1864), No. 14 (September 1864), No. 15 (October 1864), No. 16 (November 1846), and No. 17..... More
Toronto: NC Press, 1983. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 9" x 9" Brown cloth boards. 176 p.p. B&W photos in-text throughout. Signed typed letter from author laid-in, newspaper articles laid-in. Light foxing to edges of text block. Some light bumping to extremities of just jacket, else fine. Today, citizens of Japanese..... More
New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill & Heibonsha, 1976. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. Translated by Thomas Guerin. Original patterned cloth. Gold endpapers. 161 pp. Cropping to flaps, 3/4" tear to head of rear joint, and light bumping to extremities of dust jacket, else..... More