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.....
Kyoto: Otani University, 2002. Paperback. Text in Japanese, Large 8vo, wraps, very good, 51 pp, illustrations, some in color.
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.
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.....
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.
Univ of Tokyo Pr, 1990. Hardcover. 234 pp. Hardcover, red buckram, 8vo. Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Price sticker at rear panel of DJ; slightest bumping of DJ at head of spine and upper corners. A tight, clean copy. 8vo.
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY SHOEI ANDO. First Edition. c.1970. Hardcover. Cloth. 12mo. 218pp. Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Light soil to edges of text block, mild offsetting to endpapers. Moderate wear to dustjacket, creasing, soiling, moderate chipping to edges, loss to spine-ends amounting to half.....
Nara, Japan: Tenri Jihosha, 1968. First English language edition. Hardcover. 1968, First in English. 119 pp. Hardcover, cream cloth, 8vo. Fine copy in Fine glassine jacket, housed in Near Fine original slipcase. All contents tight, clean and unmarked. Like New. Publisher's letter laid-in.
Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2006. Paperback. 2006. 2 volumes in slipcase. Fine. Text volume in English and Japanese. Plates volume in Japanese only. Thoroughly illustrated with Aoyama Jiro's book designs. A lovely copy.
Japan: Kyodoshuppansha, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 1998. Text in Japanese. Folio, hardback in dust jacket, 147 pp., illustrated in black and white and in color. Fine in near fine jacket.
Shikoku: To-Ji Temple, 1999. First edition. Paperback. 1999. First edition. Paperback, 4to. in pictorial wraps. 222pp. illustrated, Japanese language, introduction in English. Very good. Edge wear to wraps, ownership sticker on flyleaf. Contents unmarked. Exhibition catalogue.
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover, black cloth. Illustrated. 132 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket and original slipcase. Sharp, clean copy. Slipcase with minor shelfwear; strong and clean. Volume 1 only, focusing on Kacho, Bird and Flower motifs.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. First edition. Paperback. Presumed first edition, 2014, paperback, octavo, 301pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1957. First printing. Paperback. First printing, 1957, paperback (taped spine), small quarto, 30pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with ink and price written on bottom of front panel, light edge wear, faint crease to rear top corner, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1989. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 371 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light age-toning to the page-edges, dust jacket with minor creasing to the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket.....
London: John Murray, 1903. Seventh Edition. Stiff Boards. Seventh Edition, Revised. c.1903. Stiff boards. Red cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 586pp. + ads (68pp.). Fold-out map in front, large fold-out map in rear pocket. All interior maps present. Very Good+. Some rubbing and fading to cloth, light general shelfwear, some soiling.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1972, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 513pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with rubbing and soil, now in archival mylar wrap.....