n.p. n.p., ca. 1920. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. 1-28 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of Hirooka, and with a facsimile of a title page at the beginning of the volume. This volume contains excerpts from a weekly journal..... More
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop [1960], 1960. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. [6], 9-230, [2] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering blocked in yellow on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated with mounted color plates and with double-sided black and white plates. Light rubbing to the boards, a bookplate..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [6], 5-260, [2] pp. White cloth with black lettering on the spine, a red decoration on the front board. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. Tiny spot..... More
London: Grosvenor Books (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [1], 190, [2] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maroon endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs from the historical period. An..... More
Cambridge: The Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxi, [3], 3-390, [10] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Light wear to the boards' edges; jacket with a few wrinkles to its front panel and light rubbing..... More
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Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft [1925], 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [8], 1-63, [1], [142 numbered plates at the end of the volume] pp. Rebound in later red cloth with a yellow cloth label lettered in red on the spine; red topstain. Later endpapers and pastedowns in addition to the original..... More
New York: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], v-x, [1], 2-377, [3] pp.; [6], iii-vi, [1], 2-374, [2] pp. Bound in blue-green cloth with elaborate gilt decorations on the front boards, spines with lettering and decorations in gold; top edges gilt. Illustrated with..... More
Honolulu: East-West Center Press (1966), 1966. Second printing. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. [4], 3-12 pp. [4], (55 plates with captions at the end of the volume) pp. Brown cloth with Japanese characters stamped in black on the front board, black lettering on the spine. Printed pink endpapers and pastedowns. Lacks the..... More
n.p. n.p., ca. 1890. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 27.5 c.m. x 38 c.m. 50 hand-colored albumen photographs on double-sided stiff cardstock leaves. All tissue guards present. Black lacquered boards with beautiful raised decorations carved and painted on bone on the front board: a woman wearing a kimono riding a dragon and..... More
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New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers / Keystone View Co., ca. 1904. Stereograph Photographs. Stereograph photographs mounted on stiff brown paper board printed in black. Each card measures 18 c.m. x 9 c.m, each photograph measures 8 c.m. x 8 c.m. Two photographs mounted on each card. Each card states..... More
London: Holland Press, 1963. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, with a sleeve printed in white on the front and on its flaps. Price of $12.00 printed on the front flap. This edition is a facsimile of Joly's manuscript..... More
Ginza, Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan [1939], 1939. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. [8], 1-230 pp. Glossy silver wrappers with a paper label printed in green, red, and black. Housed in a beige slipcase with a paper label printed in brown. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and with eleven..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International LTD. (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [10], 11-260 pp. Brown cloth with white lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns printed with a map of Japan on them. Price of $60.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket, with a price of 10,000 yen..... More
[New York]: Kodansha International Ltd. (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [6], 7-199, [1] pp. Red cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $50.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket, also with a price in yen at the bottom of the jacket's..... More
New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers [2001], 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [5], 6-304 pp. Blue and white glossy boards with black lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $60.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With 89 color illustrations, the..... More
New York: McCall Publishing Company [1971], 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [3], 2-243, [5] pp. Quarter red cloth over orange paper boards, gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by a few diagrams and..... More
Leiden - Boston: Hotei Publishing, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [5], 6-231, [1] pp. Orange cloth with lettering in blind on the front board and spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. With color illustrations (full-page and in-text). The front board a bit bowed, a little stray mark on the front endpaper's..... More
New York: Kodansha International (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-215, [1] pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. Foreword by James Michener. Preface by Hachiro Hosokawa. Translated by Mayumi Ichikawa..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD., 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [10], xi-xv, [2], 3-156, [4]; [4] (volume two is largely plates) pp. Each volume bound in paper wrappers (stab-bindings) printed in red, black, orange, and grey, grey sewing thread through the spines. The decorations on..... More
Tokyo: Seibundo Publishing Co., 1932. Hardcover. 4to. [3], 2-23, [3], 9-143 pp. Half white cloth over brown cloth with lettering in blind on the front board, faded blue lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. With numerous black and white plates and with ten color plates..... More
Leiden: Hotei Publishing [2000], 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-151, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. With several full-page black and white photographs. A discussion of the history of the Western antique trade and its dealings in Japanese art and artifacts. More
New York: Abrams [2005], 2005. Second printing. Hardcover. 4to. [7], 8-223, [1] pp. Pictorial boards with black and green lettering on the spine. Photographs on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $40.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with colorful in-text and full-page photographs by Aya Brackett..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix, [12], 3-371, [9] pp. Quarter red cloth over beige cloth with two silver decorations on the front board and with silver lettering on the spine. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $20.00 on the..... More
London: Cassell (1962), 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-280, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21/- net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates of black and white photographs. Reynolds' book tells his story..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vii-ix, [7], 3-302, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over tan paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several color plates, maps, and a few black..... More