[Osaka]: The Asahi Press, [1950]. First edition, folio, pp. [10], 125, [1]; illustrated throughout, a few in color; original gray cloth, silver-stamped spine, pictorial pastedown on upper cover; very good copy. Pictorial review of the fair sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company "to show the public a comprehensive view..... More

Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro, [ca 1850s]. Fukurotoji, 29 leaves, likely original blue paper cover, faded and partially perished title label; light worming, wear to the bottom of a few leaves, top margin tide stained, affecting some impressions, one spread spotted, fair. The advertising leaf on the lower cover identifies the publisher..... More

Tokyo: Japanese Sword Preservation Association, 1963. Revised new edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 8, [2], 212, 16, [2]; 50 plates of 51 swords; full blue cloth, lacking the slipcase; top edge foxed, corner a touch bumped, little musty, very good. Signed by Honma to a "ジョ-タタグリア" (Jo-tataguria) on free endpaper..... More

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, the Murdock Press, 1901. 4to, [40] leaves, about half of them blank, stitched and sewn in the Japanese manner; text within decorative borders, 43 relief prints, the whole printed in red and black throughout; original pictorial printed wrappers, chipped and worn; the whole rather brittle..... More

Tōkyō: Tōgyō Kenkyūkai, 1916 [i.e. Ryūkyū Shiryō Fukkoku Hanpukai, 1969]. Second edition after that of 1916; 12mo, pp. [4], 123, [1], 14, [2], 7, [5]; text in triple column; fine copy in brown leather lettered in gilt on spine, in a near fine dust jacket. The Ryukyuan languages (also Lewchewan..... More

Tow Kyow [i.e. Tokyo]: Kaiseidow [et al.], n.d., [ca. 1888]. 8vo, 3 parts in 1, as issued; pp. [2], 81, [1], [148], [174]; contains approx. 50 pages of illustration of the lips and mouth showing the positions of same for the pronunciation of different letters, syllables, and words; internally with..... More

Tokyo: Shinchosha, [1990]. 18th printing, 8vo, pp. [2], 413, [3]; full creme cloth; boards and edges foxed, text clean and sound, very good in fine dustjacket, lacking slipcase. More

Tokyo: Evening Star, 1949. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 48; text in Japanese; text illustrations, pictorial paper wrappers; lower wrapper and edges a little soiled, text clean and sound, very good. With contributions from Yamanokuchi Baku, Shinichiro Watanabe, and others. VAN was a long-lived satirical magazine that lasted from 1946 to..... More

Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 1969. 8vo, pp. 170, [1]; photos, chargs and graphs throughout; perfect bound in pictorial paper cover; age toned, else fine. An abbreviated version of the 1969 white paper on the Tokyo Administration. More

[Sendai: The Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, 2003]. Large 8vo, pp. 123, [1]; text in Japanese; text illustrations, largely facsimiles of manuscript documents, throughout; green printed paper wrappers; owner's signature on endpaper, else fine. CNEAS Monograph No. 14, on the literati circle of Shikian, centered around Souseki and..... More

Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1962-1963. 8vo, 8 vols, including a final volume out of series; text in Japanese; text illustrations, 3 folding maps; full gray cloth, title in white and gilt on spines; prospectuses for 6 volumes and two errata slips laid in, slight rubbing to spine of vol. 1, else..... More

Nagasaki: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victim's Council, 1970. Large 8vo, pp. [144]; text largely in Japanese with brief biographies of the subjects in English; approx. 90 photographic illustrations throughout; stiff illustrated card wrappers, fine in edge rubbed dust jacket. A collection of photographs taken by the Nagasaki branch of the "Japan..... More

Boston: the Stratford Co., 1927. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 169; frontispiece portrait, plates; original green cloth gilt; joints rubbed, overall very good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Johnson visited Japan, China, India, Egypt, and France. More