(Japan): 1922. Map measures 20.75 x 15.25 inches, printed in red and black, good to very good light edgewear, tanning, creasing, housed in homemade gray folder with cord binding, hand lettered in Chinese as "Map of the Tomb of the War Dead" for "Anzo Town." We assume the tomb or.....
Osaka: Warakujiya Shoten, Cs. 1955. Paperback. Wraps, very good, 36 pages of maps in color of Tokyo and region, maps measure 7 x 8 inches. In Japanese.
Tokyo: Ca. 1920s. Hardcover. 2 volumes, bound in silk with paper chemises, with a total of 73 woodcut prints that measure approximately 9.5 x 7 inches each. Some ex-library marks from Carnegie Mellon University (including their deaccession stamp), but hardly any stamps to the pages, and images all in excellent.....
Tokyo: Gyodo Convenience, Ca. 1910s. 24 unused postcards, gravure photos of Kyoto's temples, castles, shrines, gardens and scenery. Very good or better with light soil to some.
Tokyo: Nihon K gei Ka, 1981. First printing. Paperback. Quarto, wraps, 117 (8) pp, illustrated with many b/w plates. Very good. The exhibition was held in several Japanese cities. Laid in is a 4 pp. prospectus for the exhibition in Kyoto that focusecd on industrial arts. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two.....
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1943. Wraps. 10.5 x 8.25 inches, pictorial wraps, fair to good with some wear to covers, light loss along top edge of front cover, spine a little reconstructed, some chipping, soil and wear to rear wrap. 70 (4) pp, heavily illustrated, text in a variety of languages.....
Kyoto: Otani University, 2002. Paperback. Text in Japanese, Large 8vo, wraps, very good, 51 pp, illustrations, some in color.
Tokyo (?): Ca. 1950. Hardcover. 13.25 x 10 inch portfolio with 12 woodblock prints in color mounted on larger sheets of handsome cream laid paper, all in fine condition, housed in portfolio boards with string tie, good with light restoration along spine and some darkening to borders. Probably 1950s or.....
Kobe: K be Shinbun S g Shuppan Sent, 1996. First Printing. Wraps. 10 x 7.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear, covers a little wavy, approximately 100 pp. text, 40-50 pp. of photoplates mainly in b/w, a few maps and other charts. Text in Japanese. Quite RARE with only 2.....
Tokyo: Yama to Keikokusha, 2002. Paperback. 8vo, color photo wraps, very good, illustrated, much in color, 151 pp, text in Japanese, about the sacred mountain near Kyoto.
Kobe: 1955. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, 288 pp, illustrated and with many plates. The Elementary school is on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu in the Kumamoto prefecture.
Kyoto: 1982. Paperback. 12 x 10 inches, wraps, ery good, some light wear and two horizontal thin streaks of abrasion to front cover, contents very good, 180 pp, illustrated with color photos throughout of various fashions of kimonos for ceremonial purposes, tea ceremonies, Noh, Kabuki, etc. High-end Japanese kimono fashion!.....
Kitakyushu: NHK, Kitakyushu Broadcasting Station, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo (10 x 7 inches), wraps, 253 pp, illustrated. Text in Japanese. The region is NE of Fukuoka and includes Kokura Castle, at the northern tip of the southern half of Japan. Very RARE with no copies in libraries located.....
Tokyo: Bijutsu Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Text in Japanese. 2 volumes in slipcase, very tall narrow folio, the first volume is a hardback ca. 30 pp, with maps and photos showing points along the way of the Nakayama Road including monasteries, temples, etc. The second volume is in a......
Tokyo: Kobundo, 1994. Hardcover. Flexible cloth in dust jacket, very good, mild wear. 862 pp. Text in Japanese.
11.75 x 8.25 inches, silk brocade covers, bound accordion-style, with 50 mounted photos measuring roughly 6 x 4.25 inches each, showing a festival and parade involving a "float," martial artists and many school-children, with quite a few activities. Some foxing or spotting to the accordion pages, but the photos in.....
Kyoto: Kyoto Hanga-In, Ca. 1950. First printing. Hardcover. 10.5 x 8.5 inches, boards portfolio with string tie, 8x10 woodblock prints in color on rice paper in fine condition, portfolio very good with minor discoloration. Artists not identified.
Tokyo: Akamatsu Tsuneko Kensh kai, 1977. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards in slipcase, 10 x 7.25 inches, very good. 121 pp, illustrated. Tsuneko Akamatsu (1897-1965) worked in a tobacco factory and then in a spinning mill. Being a Socialist member of the House of Councillors, she was director of the Womens’.....
New York: Macmillan, 1916. Hardcover. Second edition, 1916, very good in original dark blue cloth gilt, 267 pp, ads, some offsetting to rear endpaper.
London: Wildwood House, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1973, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, staggared pagination, illustrated in color. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, small sticker ghost to front pastedown, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with rubbing, mild edgewear.....
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 2006, hardcover with brown stamped beige cloth boards, octavo, 253pp., illustrated in color. Book VG+ with faint crease to spine, sticker remnant to rear board, binding tight, previous owner's sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked.....
Tokyo / Rutland, VT: Kodansha / Japan Publications, 1965. First English language edition. Hardcover. Signed by the artist, Naoko Matsubara, on the title page. 1965, First Edition in English. Hardcover. English text. Beautiful woodcuts throughout. A fine, sparkling copy in the original slipcase. Also includes the original obi band. An.....
Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design, 1937. First edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. c.1937. Original Japanese Paper Wraps. Bound with knotted silk string. 4to. 16pp. (text) + 22 full-page black & white illustrations. Very Good+. Light general wear to wraps, light soil. Contents unmarked.
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1927). Hardcover. No date, but others peg this as 1927. 8vo, red cloth in most of the dust jacket (pieced back together and put in a Brodart). 226 pp, slightly musty and foxed.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, brown cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows rubbing and mild discolorization and soiling, book shows mild wear to boards, 276pp.