Sansuiga no byoho; ?????? /
Tokyo: 1975. First printing. Paperback. First edition. In Japanese. 4to, wraps in dust jacket, 103 pp., illustrations. About landscape painting and Sumie technique. About fine. Gyokuun Yamada 1915 - ?
Japan
Photographic Views of Japan Booklets, Including: Festivals, Kabuki, Children, Village Scenes, and Tea Ceremony (Series 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9)
Tokyo: Francis Haar, Ca. 1940. Wraps. Series of 5 booklets by Francis Haar featuring thematic photographs of Japan, including Festivals, Kabuki, Children, Village Scenes, and Tea Ceremony. ca. 1940s. Booklets in stapled wraps that fold into a mailable envelope, each 5 by 4 inches. 10 real photographs in each booklet.....
Selected Catalogue of Hakone Art Museum, Atami Art Museum; Volume 2
Gora: Hakone Art Museum, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 139 photographs, 18 of which are in color. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Text in Japanese. This volume only.
Mori Arinori
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 535pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has faint sun to spine, mild edgewear.
Japanese Feudal Laws (1913) - The Tokugawa Legislation, IV: The Edict in 100 Sections [Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XLI Part V
Tokyo: The Asiatic Society of Japan, 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, cloth backed boards, about very good, light wear to spine cloth, boards a bit rubbed and quite tanned and darkened, contents very good, some toning. Paginated 683-878 pp. Most of the volume is taken up with.....
Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Paperback. 1994, Softcover, 269 pp. Fine copy, like new.
The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 4: Early Modern Japan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good clean copy with just a touch of wear, previous owner's small red chopmark on title page (Helen Hopper, author of a number of scholarly books on women and feminism in Japan). 831 pp.
Kabuki
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 1956, stated First Edition. 163 pp. Hardcover, cream cloth, 8vo. Illustrated in b&w. Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. A lovely copy. Covers are tight and clean. Previous owner's signature at fly leaf, otherwise a Fine copy. Clean, bright and unmarked.....
Bugaku
Nara, Japan: Kasuga Shrine, Nara, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 1989. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. in pictorial wraps. Unpaginated, illustrated, text in English and Japanese. Very good. Light edge wear to wraps, ownership label on flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, nearly fine, one tiny chip to bottom of rear panel, previous owner's small chopmark on title page. 275 pp.
The Lesson of Japanese Architecture, Revised Edition
Boston: Branford, 1954. Second edition. Hardcover. 1954, second edition, revised. From the collection of Nobel Prize winner George Wald, with his signature on the fly leaf. Very Good, no dust jacket. Boards bumped and scratched; small abrasion to bottom corner of front board; sound binding; clean contents. 192 pp., illustrated.....
Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. First Printing. c.2000. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 440pp. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Mild shelfwear.
Shinto: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan
London: British Museum Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. First edition, 2001, paperback, quarto, 224pp., illustrated in color. Book VG with rubbing and edgewear to wrap, crease to spine, binding tight, previous owner's sticker to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Poet Lore, Volume XXIV, Number V, Winter 1913
Boston: Poet Lore Co., 1913. Paperback. Single issue of Poet Lore, Volume XXIV, Number V, Winter 1913. Softcover, in original wraps. Very Good copy: wraps soiled; clean contents. Light wear along spine. Contents: Hanna Jagert by Hartleben. To a Japanese Print by Thresher. Shakespeare's Final Philosophy by Libby. The Child.....
Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization
London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Hardcover. 246 pp. A near fine copy, hardcover. No dust jacket. Minor erasable pencil notation to chapter titles, minimal wear to cover.
Christian Boltanski
Japan: ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, 1990. Paperback. 1990. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 31 pp. Illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese and English. Fine.
Spirits on the Crossing: Travellers to/from Nowhere - Contemporary Art in Canada 1980-1994
Setagaya Art Museum, 1995. Paperback. 168 pp. Softcover, illustrated, English and Japanese text. Near Fine copy: wraps show slightest signs of handling or use. Insides fine; clean, bright and unmarked contents.
Chaos - Cai Guo Qiang
Osaka: Masatoshi Tatsumi / Nomart Editions, 1994. First edition. Paperback. 1994, exhibition catalogue of the works of Cai Guo Qiang from the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo. Qiang is China's most famous contemporary artist and designer of the fantastic fireworks display that opened the Olympic Ceremonies in Beijing in 2008.....
Japan, an Attempt at Interpretation
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First American edition. Hardcover. 1904, First American edition. Hardcover, original brown cloth, teg, gilt title and design. 541 pp., tissue-covered color frontis. Near Fine, no dust jacket. Mild wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise a bright, clean and sound copy. BAL 7941.
Earless Ho-ichi; A Classic Japanese Tale of Mystery
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1966. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1966. Hardcover in slipcase, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good slipcase, small paper residue on the front flyleaf, some soiling or discoloration to the outer pages, spine is sun-struck, minor bumping to the tips of.....
Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan
Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/University of California Press, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked, with only blemish being stamp to bottom edge of block. DJ has gentle rubbing...
Japanese Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics: The Peace Agreement with the Soviet Union
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 202pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ shows sun to spine, rubbing and edgewear.
Green With Milk & Sugar, When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups
New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's boards in dust jacket, very good, slightest waviness to pages. 283 pp.
The Golden Age of Japan, 794-1192
New York: Rizzoli, 1983. First English language edition. Hardcover. First English language edition, 1983, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket and original paper slipcase, square quarto, 252pp., illustrated in b&w and color. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ fine. Slipcase near fine with mild.....
Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 194pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of edgewear to boards, binding tight, scattered erasable pencil underlining. DJ has sun to spine, mild rubbing, price stickers to rear panel and front flap.