North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 112), 8vo, pp. 87, [4], 12, [6]; 33 colorful chiyogami samples tipped in, 18 leaves of "screen paper" samples; the text is comprised of a review of a few English language books on Japanese paper (and..... More

Tokyo: The Herald Press, [1932]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], ii, 39, [1]; 3 folding maps; rebound in green cloth with original paper cover laid down on upper cover; light toning, a couple shallow closed tears, very good. "The first reliable account in English" of the Shanghai Incident of 1932..... More

[Tokyo: Wani Magazine, 2007]. First edition, 4to, pp. [170]; full color comic illustrations; text in Japanese; yellow paper wrappers; fine in fine dust jacket and book band. A manga anthology with unusually high production values. With contributions by Yoshitoshi Abe, Yusuke Kozaki, Sabe, Imperial Boy, Tokiya, Shin Nagasawa, Kamui Fuijiwara..... More

Tokyo: Chuo Toukenkai, 1967. Later edition, fukuro toji, 10.25 x 7.25; [4], 2, 36, 6, 26, 1 leaf; text in Japanese; text illustrations, including 88 illustrations of sword guards, or tsuba; brown paper covers, fine. Higo metalworking is a method of inlaying gold and silver details to metalworks. The process..... More

[Tokyo]: Ryoko Do, [1896-1906]. Approx. 36.5 x 25 cm; 7 color woodblock prints; Japanese text on upper and side margins; all images have rectos and versos of the dolls and clothing designed to be cut out and made into three-dimensional dolls. Often used for hands-on educational purposes, Omocha-e prints were..... More

Kyoto: Doshisha Alumni Association, [1934]. First separate edition of an excerpt from Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Neesima, small 8vo, pp. 57, [3]; original card wrappers with printed pictorial dust jacket with border and vignette printed in purple on upper cover; tipped-in photographic frontispiece portrait of Nessima, and tipped..... More

Tokyo: [Published by the author], 1876-1880. First editions 7 volumes, oblong portfolios, approx 10.5" x 15.5"; text in Japanese; 125 chromolithographic plates and one rubbing illustrating 231 notable pieces of Japanese pottery, lacking the French translations in octavo, but with the 6th and 7th portfolio volumes which were published later..... More

Tokyo: Sanseido Co., Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56 plus 80 color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 20 plates printed in green from pressings, and a 4-p. index; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; covers spotted, else very good and sound. More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986. First edition, folio, pp. 103, [1]; approx. 50 color photographs; perfect boundin pictorial paper wrappers. Fine. An exhibition catalog. More

Tokyo: Shuueisha, 2002. pp. 92, [6], 64, [2]; full-color illustrations throughout, one folding illustration; full white cloth, fine in fine dust jacket and book band. More

Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, [1977]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 228; frontispiece; previous owner's chopmark on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The contributions of Mori Ogai (1862-1922) to the intellectual life of Japan during the Meiji Restoration were enormous. He introduced..... More

Tokyo: Shueisha, 1989. 12" x 8.5", pp. 67, [1]; 52 color photographs, map, plans; text in Japanese; green cloth in pictorial dust jacket; jacket flaps creased, else fine; a visual tour of the grounds and buildings, many of which were built elsewhere and relocated. More

Tokyo: NHK, 2015. 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 223, [1] (main text); liii, [3] (English translation volume); illustrated throughout with images of fossils; text in Japanese; pictorial stiff paper covers, fine. Published in conjunction with a special exhibition. More