Washington: G.P.O., 1904. 8vo, pp. 74; some soiling, else very good in orig. maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-MHS. Issued under the auspices of the Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography. More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 2 vols, tenth edition with six supplementary chapters, 12mo, pp. [3]-324, (with 2 inserted leaves after page 10); [325]-728; text illustrations throughout; original olive cloth a bit rubbed, both volumes leaning a bit, otherwise a good or better, sound set. The history..... More
Geneva, Paris, Munich: Nagel Publishers, [1965]. Folio, pp. 157, [1]; text illustrations throughout, including tipped-in color plates; white cloth gilt, light spotting and wear to covers and dust jacket, a couple plate mounts have perished but the plates remain attached. More
Tōkyō: Kokusho Kankōkai, 1972. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 478, [2]; original printed blue wrappers; some rubbing at the edges but generally very good and sound. Originally published in 1937 this appears to be the second edition. Zaunmuller, col. 267 citing the 1937 edition only. More
New York & London: William Edwin Rudge & "The Studio" Ltd., 1929. 4to, pp. [2], 6; 8 color plates, printed tissue-guards; original decorated paper-covered boards, printed paper cover and spine labels; spine chipped at ends and discolored, internally fine. Plates include "Setta Peak," "White Rain at Shono," "White Rain on..... More
[Japan: Early 20th c.]. Oblong album containing 157 photographs on 48 pages, dated between 1905-1940, with the majority of the photos taken in the early 1930s. A family album, with both formal and candid photos of a variety of people, including family portraits, association portraits, event photos, household scenes, and..... More
[Japan: 1930s-1940s]. Oblong photo album, 133 photographs on 62 pages, in addition to 8 loose 11½x 9¼" photographs laid in; gray paper covers, title and dates written on upper cover in manuscript, with photographer’s name on lower cover. Very good overall, with a couple of photos lacking, and one photo..... More
Tokyo: Rionsha, 1953. Second printing, 12mo, pp. 259, [1]; text in Japanese; text illustrations, one folding chart; blue cloth backed in white paper, gilt title on spine; spine toned, light rubbing and bumping to edges, textblock browning but clean, very good. Hattori was a historian and himself a member of..... More
Yokohama: Urban Design Yokohama, 1993. First edition, 4to, pp. 95, [1]; 91 full color photographs; captions in English and Japanese, backmatter in Japanese; perfect bound in white paper covers; near fine. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1921. First edition, first of two issues as identified by BAL without "printed in the U.S.A." on the copyright-page; 8vo, pp. xv, [5], 328; fine copy in the dust-jacket; red cloth chemise. Largely reprinted from the book of the same title in 1915, but..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, [ca. 1910s]. Later printing, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], x, [2], 342, [2]; [4], [343]-699, [1]; hinge cracking at title page of vol. 1, some rubbing at edges, otherwise about very good in original decorative green cloth stamped in silver, t.e.g...... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, 1894. First edition, first printing of volume I (collating as in BAL), binding B (no sequence); 2 volumes, 8vo, 4 full-page illustrations; fine set in original decorative black cloth stamped in silver, t.e.g. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First edition thus, 16mo, pp. 58; frontispiece; original green decorative boards printed in dark green and purple; near fine. Reprinted excerpt from the author's Kokoro (1896). Forms part of the Evergreen Series. BAL 7980. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1899. Reprint, small 8vo, pp. 388; illustrated title page printed in red and black; publisher's green sateen (soiling) stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; spine faded to tan; minor glue stain from removed label, previous owner's bookplate on back pastedown. Very good and sound. See BAL 7928..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. 8vo, pp. x, 251, [1]; [2] ads; title within a pictorial red border, frontispiece, 2 plates, illustrations in the text printed in red (a number full-page); original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and blue on upper cover and..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [ca. 1910]. 8vo, pp. [4], [viii], 240; frontispiece and one plate; 3/4 purple calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spine in six compartments with gilt title in one, t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine sunned and rubbed, owner's bookplate on free endpaper, text clean and..... More
Harper's Weekly: New York, Oct. 15, 1904. Folio, pp. [32]; illustrated throughout; last leaf contains a full column letter from Hearn, published posthumously, about his youth and upbringing, and his introduction to reading and writing literature; orig. printed wrappers; very good. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, 1910. First trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 200 copies), BAL's state A of the binding imprint; 8vo, pp. [2], lx, 468, [2]; Illustrated with photogravures and reproductions of sketches by Hearn; front hinge cracked else very good..... More
New York: Citadel Press, [1949]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 566; near fine in original green cloth, dust-jacket with light edge-wear. The volume includes the books Kwaidan, Some Chinese Ghosts, and Chita, and many sketches describing life in New Orleans and Cincinnati, Hearn's famous Caribbean sketches and the Japanese ghost..... More
[San Francisco: published by American-Japanese Publishing Assn. printed by Kudo Printing Co., Tokyo, n.d., [ca. 1950]. Reprint of the first edition in English, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. [4], iii, [3], 346, [6]; [6], 254, [6], v, [1]; 7 plates (actually 6, as 1 is not a plate), 6 pp. of..... More
![Item #34520 開国之滴 [Kaikoku no shizuku]. [Vol. 1, all published]. [Translated by Hisaakira...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/34520_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613490727)
Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1893. First edition (an earlier account - only 68 pages - was published in 1863); 8vo, pp. [2], 236; 3 lithograph plates (the Japanese castaways in a longboat with the American ship in the distance; a chart of Yokohama harbor; and the American fleet at Shimonoseki); original pictorial..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1856. Large folio (approx. 20½ x 15"), consisting of a title page, and introduction leaf, and 10 leaves of descriptive text to accompany each of the 10 plates, of which one is a lithograph portrait of Commodore Perry from a daguerreotype by P...... More
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, [2008]. 4to, pp. xxiii, [5], 348; illustrated throughout, some in color; publisher's ochre cloth, dust jacket with light edge wear, else fine. "Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West by imperial decree. During that time, a unique brand..... More
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, [2008]. Second printing, 4to, pp. xxiii, [10], 348; text illustrations and 16 color plates; full tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket, fine. More
![Item #64165 空から見た日本 / Sora kara mita Nihon [= Japan as seen from the air]. Susumu...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64165_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688157911)
Tōkyō: Bungei Shunjū Shinsha, 1960. First edition, small folio, pp. [116]; illustrated throughout, some in color; near fine copy in original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase worn with cracks and light chipping. More
