Librairie Armand Colin: Paris, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. . One volume edition. 284 pages, 55 plates, tissue guards present. French text. After Aubert's visit to Japan, he describes the sweetness and integral almost hidden formalities of the culture. He interacts with contemporary French art including Monet and Degas as well..... More
Liverpool and London: Liverpool for Sunscibers by the Authors and Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875. First Edition. Folio. Two half titles, two title pages printed in red and black. LXXI, [1]2-61; 51 plates with a page of descriptive text, a 4 page list of marks and monograms, and 4 pages..... 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
Boston: Houghton, Miffin and Co., 1904. First Edition. Small Octavo. 240pp. "Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories. This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. A...... More
[Privately Printed for Merle Johnson, New York, 1913]. Limited Edition. Octavo. Only 100 copies were printed and numbered. The present copy is #34. 96 unopened pages with the scarce addenda, tipped in. [BAL 7954. Blanck notes: "printed and published by Merle Johnson although this information is nowhere stated in the..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First Edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece, 541 pages, (2 )pages of ads. Hearn planned to return to the United States in 1903 to lecture on Japanese topics at Cornell University, but an outbreak of typhoid fever in Ithaca prompted the cancellation of the series. The finished lectures..... More
Boston: Litttle, Brown & Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo. i-xii, 268 pages. Hearn's brilliant description on pages 225-232 of the physical and psychological feelings during a dream of flying is unparalleled. He believed that "all man's dreams of paradise, of a golden past age, or a perfect future, were born..... More
Kobe, Japan: Ikuta Press, 1977. Octavo. 47 pages. Besides the book being inscribed to Eva La Gallienne, it includes the author's long letter to her reminiscing of her appearing in "The Royal Family", he notes a mutual friend, Jay Hildreth, who hoped with her to make an opera of Ibsen's..... 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
Paris; Tokyo: Charles Carrington; Lymetsu, Ltd . Privately Printed, 1907. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. The present copy is number 113. 340 ages, 6 unnumbered leaves of erotic illustrations on orange paper. Unlike most erotic books of the period, this was beautifully printed on laid paper. The illustrations..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press/Grabbhorn Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 350 copies. 110 (1) pp. The mystical and rich imaginative imagery continued after his death created not only romantic and occult interest but a heated debate among scholars. The so-called Hearn controversy flared up soon after his death..... 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
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
Boston; (1953): Little Brown and Co. First Edition. Octavo. ). 238 pages. The autobiography of Kazuko Itoi, a second-generation Japanese American woman who struggles through the familial, and racial conflicts of finding her identity. Kazuko Itoi, anglicized as the author Monica Sone, portrays the internment traumas of Japanese Americans after..... More
Fallbrook, CA; (1968): Aero Publishers. Quarto. 202 pages. Illustrated. Laid in is the Aero Publisher's promotional sheet. Original Color Chart laid in. One of the most thorough works on Japanese markings by Donald Thorpe, known as a modeler and a charter member of the International Modeler's Scoeity. The fact that..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Chicago 1930, 1945. Quarto. 16 leaves. These classes were held in May of 1945 anticipating how Americans should Japanese language and the culture for what would in a future year would be the military control of Japan (this special class was four months before the first..... More
Osaka: Yamanaka & Co., 1930. Quarto. No pagination. 58 leaves. Only four copies are found on OCLC (Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian, Harvard fine art Library.). Translation of title: Ancient folk arts of the world-- mainly Japanese, Korean and Chinese..... 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
