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
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1984. Soft cover. 4.5" x 7" Soft cover. 240 pp. Fine condition. The classic Japanese story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full grey cloth stamped with gold lettering to spine and illustration to front board. 60 pp. Beautifully illustrated with colour and B&W photographs. Spine sunned, else fine. No jacket as issued. In custom fine slipcase. 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
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. mint green cloth. 166 pp. Illustrated with 71 plates in full colour, 81 plates in B&W, 15 line drawings, and one map. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly sunned to spine and head of front cover. More
London: Phaidon, 1995. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 9" x 10" Full black blind stamped cloth. 524 pp. Some light scuffing to edges of text block. Light tanning to edges of pages. Fine overall. 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
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: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. 16mo. The Travellers' Library. Full blue cloth. 253 pp., ads. Some light damp staining to cloth, bumping to spine ends. A few small spots of foxing. Near fine. 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. Hardcover. 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 few..... 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
Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 11.5" x 11" Illustrated paper boards. 303 pp. B&W photographs. Glassine dust jacket has one short tear to head of front cover. Else 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
New York: Charles Scribener's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Uncorrected advanced proof. Orig. red card wraps. 206 pp. Wraps have a few white stains. Spine faded, a few creases to corners. James Melville is renowned for his Superintendent Otani mysteries set in..... More
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1974. Hardcover. 7" x 8.5" Translated from the Japanese by Victor Harris. Eighth printing. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. 95 pp. B&W illustration in text. Some light bumping to extremities of dust jacket, else fine. Few works of literature speak almost equally to the..... More
New York: Weatherhill, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Originally published in Japanese by Heibonsha under the title Kosode to No-isho in the Nihon no Bijutsu series. Fourth English printing. Orig. patterned cloth. 168 pp. Copiously illustrated, some illustrations in colour. Dust jacket is price clipped, else fine. More
New York: Weatherhill, 1981. Hardcover. 16mo. Sixth printing. Full red cloth. 325 pp. Slight bruise to spine tail. Dust jacket is price clipped, a few bump to edges. Fine overall. More
Boulder: Shambala, 1980. Soft cover. Soft cover. 122 pp. B&W photos. Fine overall. In 1543, the first westerners landed in Japan, bearing guns. By 1575, guns had replaced swords in the ranks of all the but most stubborn samurai. But after 1637, the Japanese stopped using guns for over 200..... More
Japan: Science and Engineering, 1986. Hardcover. 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 was..... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo. xii, 381 p.p. Paperback. Small markings along covers. Interior clean, near fine copy. More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1979. Soft cover. 16mo. Soft cover. xv, 220 pp., [4 pp. glossary]. Front flap is price clipped, spine slightly sunned, else fine. More
London: British Museum Publications, 1985. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 45 pp., [80] colour plates. Fully illustrated. Fine condition. Contemporary Japan is a society overflowing with energy, and nowhere is this better reflected than in the world of printmaking, where the strong traditions of Japan's great artistic past confront..... More
Osaka: TM International Academy, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo (small). In jacket with "The Way of the Samurai, East & West" with subtitle on front cover. 170 p.p. Lacks title page. Front free endpaper has been glued to the inner cover. Light soiling to verso of f.f. endpaper. With b/w illustrations..... More