![Item #26957 英語自由自在 [Eigo jiyujizai.] =English with freedom. [cover title] [Edited by...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26957_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1491258131)
Osaka: Isaburo Hamamoto, 1886. 12mo, pp. 4, 59, [1]; illustrated throughout; a fusion of western and Japanese book styles, with pages folded and bound fukuro style with the folds facing the fore-edge, but reinforced in each leaf with wastepaper to replicate western paper, and paginated western style, encased in cloth..... More
Tokyo: Taisei Shuppansha, 1990. Second printing, large 8vo, pp. [8], 161, [1]; maps, photos and diagrams of Tokyo at night in color throughout; text in Japanese; perfect bound in black paper cover and black pictorial dust jacket; very good, with textblock split but sound on page 139. More
![Item #48382 都市計画用語集. [Toshi keikaku yougoshuu] = Glossary of City Planning](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48382_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611177665)
Tokyo: Nihon Toshi Keikaku Gakkai, 1986. 8vo, pp. iii, [1], 509, [3]; black cloth; owner's signature on upper free endpaper, fine in lightly chipped green dust jacket; A Japanese - English - Japanese dictionary for city planning terms. More
[Japan?]: [c. early 20th century]. Accordion-bound large octavo artist's sketchbook, containing 25 double-page, hand-painted color images, including nature scenes, portraits of Hotei and Daruma, and village life. The images are minimalist and bold, with heavy influence from Chinese brush painting. The artist is anonymous, but clearly quite talented. Bound in..... More
Tokyo: Maruikobunsha, 1975. Facsimile edition of the the first modern Western work of fiction to be translated into Japanese, fukurotoji, 7.8" x 4.75"; pp. [44], [1], 29; text in Japanese; three color text images; stab stitched in green paper covers; fine. With contextual commentary by Maeda Ai. More
![Item #21877 新撰独学英語自在 [Shinsen dokugaku eigo jizai.] =Newly compiled English...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21877_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613418187)
Tokyo & Yokohama: 1885. 16mo, 5" x 3 1/2" (125 x 87mm.), pp. [85], folded and interleaved in the Japanese manner, marbled edges, original printed paper-covered boards, title page printed in red; front hinge cracked, else very good. Enclosed in a Japanese cloth folding box. Contains a bilingual alphabet, tables..... More
New York: George Braziller in association with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1985. First edition, small folio, pp. 192; illustrated throughout, much in color; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
[Tokyo: Artbooks, 1994]. First edition, 4to, pp. [1], 187, [1]; folding frontispiece and over 60 color illustrations, most full page; text in Japanese with English introduction; printed paper wrappers; corner a touch bumped, else fine in fine dust jacket and book band. A collection of Mobile Suit Gundam arms personified..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First American edition (issued the same year as the London edition), 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxvii,[4], 32-407, [1]; [iii]-x, [2], 14-436, 8 (ads); 2 engraved frontispieces, folding map, large folding plan of Osaka, numerous illustrations in the text, a number full-page; recent black cloth..... More
![Item #40826 交際必携英和對牘 [Kousai hikkei eiwa taitoku] = Essential manual...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/40826_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613418248)
Tokyo: Kin'emon Izumiya, Shindo Zohan, Meiji 5, [1872]. First edition, 2 volumes, fukurotoji, 2, 23; and 21 leaves, original yellow wrappers, printed paper labels on each; generally fine in a blue cloth folding box, with thongs. Printed letters throughout, showing samples of mostly commercial letters, with Japanese text above explicating..... More
Tokyo: Shueisha, 2004. 8vo, pp. 255, [11]; text in Japanese; printed paper wrappers, pictorial dust jacket; fine in slip case with small bump at spine. book band lightly worn. More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, a Bruyna Book, [1959]. Fi9rst edition, 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 80 photographic plates on 96 pages; slight creasing of the spine else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. More
Tokyo: Morikita Publishing Company, 1958. Eighth printing, 12mo, pp. 15, [1], 650, [1], 41, [4]; text in Japanese, limp navy cloth cover, light edge wear, text clean, very good. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. 8vo, pp. xxxii, [2], 234; full blue cloth, silver title on spine; ownership stamp of Norman Jacobs on free endpaper, else fine in fine dustjacket. More
![Item #35462 児供遊び力くらべ [Kodomo asobi. Chikara kurabe.] = Children at play. ...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35462_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613418246)
n.p. Meiji 10, [1877]. Color woodblock diptych of children playing at Tug o' War, notable for the inclusion of two western children, each part of the dyptich approximately 14½ x 9¾ inches (14½ x 19½ overall), printed in red, yellow, green, blue, gray and black, showing 5 figures on each..... More
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, [1983]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. x, v317, [1]; 167 text illustrations; full brown cloth gilt; fine in near fine jacket with sunned spine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
New York: Weatherhill, 1983. First edition, 4to, pp. x, 317, [1]; 3 paper samples tipped in, 167 illustrations, including 90 photographs. This copy with 21 extra paper samples bound in at the front (actually 3 samples but 7 examples of each), plus a specially tipped-in printed presentation leaf reading: "Christmas..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition, the issue of 250 copies bound uncut, and with a page of Hearn's autograph tipped in; 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [12], 475, [1]; [6], 554, [2]; 15 plates; original black cloth, printed paper labels on spines; generally a fine copy, but with the top..... More
Boston: Cornhill Publishing Company, n.d. 8vo, pp. 460; 49 half-tone illustrations and numerous text illustrations; near fine in original maroon cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g., dust jacket with chips at the edges. Covers bronzes, lacquer, fashions, pottery, porcelain, color prints with chapters on Hokusai and Hiroshige, and much more. More
London [et al.]: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1956]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 374; black & white photographic plates; original blue and red cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers; fine in dust-jacket with some rubbing at the edges and a 1-inch closed tear to the front flap. Includes the theaters of India..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Second printing, corrected, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 535; frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white plates printed on rectos and versos, plain folding map bound at back; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; minor dampstaining to bottom fore-edge only noticeable on verso of..... More
[Lawrence, Kansas]: University of Kansas Press, [1993]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 271, [1]; 25 illustrations (largely from photographs), 2 double-page maps amd a table; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 175; 16 plates; near fine in original brown cloth, good dust jacket with chips at the edges and spine. Translated by M.F. Beatty, edited by E.G. Stillman. According to the publisher this is the first book published in..... More
Paris: Editions d'Art et d'Historie, 1949. First edition, folio, pp. 270, [8] maps, [2] plus 44 leaves of plates; original tan printed wrappers; top and bottom of spine with chips out, but the binding remains sound and internally the text and plates are fine. Issued as no. 5 in the..... More
[London: Phaidon Press, 1997]. First edition, 4to, pp. 271, [1]; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was a Japanese graphic designer. Tanaka is widely recognized for his prolific body of interdisciplinary work, which includes graphic identity and visual matter for brands and..... More
