Tokyo; Nd(ca.1900): T. Hasegawa. 12mo. 34 unnumbered pages with rich color illustrations printed Japanese style (fukurotoji) on crepe paper, based on the Japanese title Nihon Mukashibanashi. One of the most colorful of the Japanese fairy tales with the legendary character Shuten Doji. Scarce in fine condition. More
Boston: 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 includes the..... 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
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. Quarto. In three volumes. Vol I: 537pp. includes index, 89 color(tinted) plates including one chart, 2 folding color woodcuts, 5 maps of which two are folding. p. 245 is numbered 2. Vol. II: 414pp., xi (index) p. 49 numbered 4, 24 full plates in black and..... 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
Honolulu, (1969): East-West Center Press. Quarto. The scroll volume consists of full-size reproductions of 4 scrolls, attributed to Toba Sojo, which are in Kazan-ji, Kyoto. The paper volume of 26 pages has an introduction, adapted by Shigetaka Kaneoko from the Japanese text by Hideo Okudiara. An excellent introduction to interpreting..... 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..... 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