London: Longman, Green and Roberts, 1863. Octavo. In two volumes, half-titles and color frontispieces, 469 and 539pp, with folded maps and numerous illustrations in chromolithography and on wood. Alcock was Britain's first diplomatic ambassador to Japan. In these volumes he gives an account of his three years' residence in Japan..... More
Boston(1897 and 1901): J.B. Millet Co. Folio. The Shogun Edition limited to only 25 lettered copies of which this is Letter "M". In 10 volumes. With an essay on Japan art by Kakuzo Okaura, director of the Imperial Art School at Tokyo Japan. Limitation pages within each volume. This set..... More
Bucyrus, Ohio: Forum Steam Printing House, 1882. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author. From the library of Barry Goldwater with his bookplate. 454 pages, [16]pp. advertising for travelers and illustrated with, 14 plates. . Like Mark Twain and U.S. Grant, Converse and his wife decided to travel around the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. Octavo. Second edition. 625 pages.The first part is titled History of Japan from 660B.C. to 1872 A.D. The second is titled Personal experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan 1870-1874. The author explains why he made this improved edition in his preface. He was attached..... More
(London, 2015): Faber & Faber. Limited Edition. Octavo. A 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, Kazuo Ishiguro. A limited edition #131 of 200 signed & numbered copies. Also issued with a separate folding slipcase containing in facsmile of 2 pages from the author's manuscript which is also signed by Ishiguro..... More
Rutland, Vermont; (1969): Charles E. Tuttle and Company. First Edition. Small Quarto. . Second printing. 46 pages, +79 pages of illustrations, six folded plates. Pages 23-48 are "Quotations from Frank Lloyd Wright", Bibliography on p. 125. One of the key works expressing Wright's philosophy integrating quotations from his autobiography with..... More
New York, nd. E.P. Dutton and Co. Octavo. 335 pages. A special book, handcolored with 41 pages of beautiful flowers, birds, mask and other items delicately painted in watercolor allowing the text to be visible. Novel about a French naval officer who has two objectives for his stay in Japan..... More
Kyoto, Japan: Hanano Shiori Sha, 1950. Oblong Folio. approx. 100pp. English text, illustrated by Etsujinwith Kawahara appox. 50 full page color plates. Bound in green cloth, string-tied Japanese style. in slipcase. More
Tokyo: Suzabo, 1904. Quarto. 22 pages of Japanese Text. 22 double-paged leaves of plates. Very Rare. OCLC reports copies at the Library of Congress, the National Diet Library of Japan, University of Toronto, Bavaria, Zurich. Ungai Ono was the leading proponent of the Ainu theory. This major work was developed..... More
New York; (1988): Weatherhill. First Edition. Quarto. viii, 170 pages,, [60] pages of plates, many in color. The Book of Tea was first published for the English-speaking world in 1906 and it brought chado (the way of tea) one of the pillars to the West. It was the fifteenth-generation Grand..... More
1989. Oblong Quarto. 120 pages. Japanese and English text. Copy at the Japanese Diet Library. p. 112-119 in English as a guide to his remarkable sculptures. There is a list in English also that notes which public collections have his works. Bound in gold cloth, spine lettering in black, corners..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marstyon and Co., 1894. Octavo. xi, 233 pp. The author's travel book show a firsthand observation in light of the culture rather than the typical Western bias. Perhaps this is because he was born in India and brought up an Evangelical Christian. He read his way into..... More