Hardcover. c.1975.Red cloth, gilt titles. 12mo. 107pp. Fine in Good dustjacket. Dustjacket spine tanned, rear panel creased and rumpled, tear along rear panel near spine, chipping to spine-ends.

Softcover. 4to. 336pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, creasing to spine, mild soil.

Second Edition. c.1999. Softcover. 8vo. 318pp. Fine.

Softcover. c.1982. 4to. 240pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, some wear / chipping at spine-ends.

First Edition. c.2009. Hardcover.Black cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 335pp. Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Softcover. c.1991. 8vo. 173pp. Fine.

Softcover. c.1980. 8vo. 178pp. Very Good+. Sunning to spine, light wear to edges.

First Edition. c.1992. Hardcover. 8vo. 247pp. Sunning to spine of dustjacket, else Fine in Near Fine dj.

First Edition. c.1981. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 8vo. 392pp. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Rubbing to dustjacket, light wear and soil.

Softcover. c.1997. 8vo. 504pp. Fine.

First Edition. c.1990. Hardcover. Gray cloth. 8vo. 396pp. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Light dinging to foredge. Rubbing to dustjacket, moderate wear to head of spine.

Kadensho
Ze-ami

First Edition. c.1968. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, gilt spine titles. 12mo. 109pp. Illus. Text in English. Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Former owner's signature on flyleaf, bottom corner of text block lightly bumped. Sunning to spine of dustjacket, moderate wear to edges and corners.

First edition, 1980. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 486 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy in Good dust jacket, soiling or discoloration to the page-edges, soiling also to the dust jacket, dust jacket with some rubbing, creasing, and tearing to the tips and edges.

First edition, 1974, hardcover, octavo, 192pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG- with edgewear that includes some small closed tears and their related creases, rubbing and toning.

Hardcover, 2008, octavo, 284pp., not illustrated. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of sun to spine.

First printing, 2003, paperback, octavo, 267pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.

Hardcover, 1970, large octavo, 212pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with soil to spine, binding tight, pencil ghost to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with some toning, rubbing, and clipped front flap.

Hardcover, 1978, large octavo, 347pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.

First printing, 1981, hardcover, octavo, 291pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with small bump to bottom front corner, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild rubbing.

First edition, 1970, hardcover, octavo, 441pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with handsome boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text has a few instances of marginalia in pencil and ink. DJ VG with toning to spine and panels, mild edgewear that includes a couple small closed tears and their related creases.

First edition, 1969, hardcover, octavo, 202pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with previous owner's signature to front endpaper, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with sun to spine, rubbing and edgewear.

Paperback, 1988, octavo, 473pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild sunning to spine head, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.

First edition, 1972, hardcover, octavo, 460pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with handsome boards and tight binding, text has a few very faint, erasable pencil marks to margins. DJ VG with edgewear, rubbing, mild toning.

First printing, 1992, hardcover, octavo, 418pp., not illustrated. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild sun to spine.

Mythological Japan, or The Symbolisms of Mythology in relation to Japanese Art
Otto, Alexander F.; Holbrook, Theodore S.

First Edition. c.1902. One of 950 copies. Hardcover. Cloth. Pastedown cover illustration. 4to. 63pp. Illus. Good. Ex-Library. Spine label, remnant of pocket on front pastedown, library stamp on title page. Moderate rubbing / wear to edges, corners bumped and heavily rubbed with some loss to cloth, head of spine worn with chipping and loss to cloth, some soiling, very mild tanning to contents.

First UK edition, 1972, hardcover, octavo, 343pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild toning to spine, rubbing.

Japan's Advance
Scherer, James A.B.

RARE IN JACKET! First edition, 1934, hardcover, octavo, 347pp., illustrated in b&w + fold out color charts. Book VG+ with handsome gilt decoration to front board and spine, binding just tender, previous seller's small sticker to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked with some general age-toning. DJ VG with edgewear to top that includes some small closed tears and their related creases, rubbing and mild age-toning, looking handsome in protective mylar wrap.

1981 Hardcover tall 8vo. Near fine with highlighting to the table of contents, else unmarked. In a VG+ dust jacket with light edgewear.

1994 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing lightest shelf wear. Pages: 31

1986 Hardcover, in Fine condition, with a light previous seller notation to a front end paper. The dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with light edge wear, very light handling soil, and the DJ shows light sunning to the spine. Pages: 178

1993, edition not stated. Softcover, in Fine condition, showing lightest shelf wear. Pages: 188

1999 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing lightest shelf wear. Pages: 687

Chinese Book of Kimono Fabric and Patterns, ca. 1935
n/a

ca. 1935 Hardcover folio, 13 x 9.5 inches; 33 x 24 cm. Bound in silk brocade with woven ribbon tie binding. Mounted silk title has been roughly translated into "Exhibition Number One [+ proper name]". 27 gorgeous chromolithographs, each with printed tissue guards, followed by 18 pages of text. In very good condition with light rubbing to the silk at the edges of the boards and slight balding to areas of the rear cover. Now housed in protective mylar wrapper. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked. A beautiful book. Text in Chinese.

Book of Japanese Humanoid Puppets, 1933
n/a

1933 Hardcover folio, 14.25 x 10 inches (36 x 25.5 cm). Housed in cloth chemise with bone toggle closure and printed paper label. Silk screened pictorial boards with paper label, bound with woven ribbon ties. [3]p introductory text followed by 63 plates printed in color and b&w on rice paper, each with tissue guard. Many plates contain more than one image, and are often captioned. Near fine with mild rubbing wear to extremeties. Chemise in VG+ condition with mild rubbing to corners, slight chipping to the paper label, and some interior blue ink rubbing from contact with the volume. Sticker of the Isseido booksellers on the interior flap of the chemise, the volume remains bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Book Japanese Temple Photogravures, ca. 1930
n/a

ca. 1930 Cloth softcover oblong folio, 11.25 x 16 inches. Near fine with decorative ribbon binding with pale green printed cloth in very good hardcover shell with toggle closures. ca. 25 large photogravures of temples in Japan, including many interior views. Includes the Temple d'Amida, Otani Hombyo, and more. With captions in French and Japanese. VG+ with faint spotting to covers. Contents are clean and unmarked. Rare.

Japanese Classics: Reprints from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Volume I, December 1925
Chamberlain, B. H.; W. G. Aston. J. M. Dixon; H. Parlett

First thus, 1925. Cloth backed printed boards. Harcover 8vo, 165pp. Text primarily in English with some Japanese characters and language. In very good condition with mild tanning to boards and gentle shelfwear. Includes several stories, including "A Description of My Hut" by J. M. Dixon and "The Maiden of Unai" by B. H. Chamberlain, who contributed the bulk of the text. Contents are clean and unmarked.

1963 Softcover folio, 459pp. Housed in original zipper case with pocket containing map of Tokyo. Fine in near fine case. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked.

Stated first printing, 1935. Yellow paper over boards, 8vo, 383pp. In good condition with slight soil and bow to boards. Mild pen marks in margins/underlining. With numerous illustrations including frontis portrait.

1954 Tan cloth folio, 103pp. Illustrated with rich full-plate black and white photographs. Near fine in a good+ dustjacket with several chips to the upper edge of the front panel. Small previous owner's sticker to the front pastedown, else bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce hardcover.

Nikko Tosho-gu kenchiku soshoku zushu / Buildings and decorations of Nikko Toshogu shrine, Japan
Suminami Takashi

First edition, 1931. Oblong cloth folio, 10.75 x 15 inches, 133pp. Replete with rich photogravure plates, with descriptive notes on some. Simultaneous text in English and Japanese. Decorative covers with purple cord binding embellishment. Housed in plain card chemise with one bone clasp (second is missing). Near fine with slight bump to lower left corner, in very good case with light foxing. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked.

Wonder Tales of Old Japan
Whitehorn, Alan Leslie; Obata, Shozan (illus.)

First American Edition. c.1912. Hardcover. Cloth. Gilt titles and decoration, gilt edge. 8vo. 174pp. Pastedown cover illustration. With laid-in Obata illustration which replicates both the frontispiece and the cover paste-on, this is probably all that remains of the original dust jacket, probably from the front panel. Near Fine. Very mild shelfwear, light offsetting to endpapers, mild rubbing at spine-ends and corners, mild soil to boards.

Enlarged and Revised Edition. c.1966. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titles. 12mo. 299pp. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Mild general shelfwear. Some wear to dustjacket, sunning to spine, occasional small tears and light chipping to edges.

First Edition. c.1987. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 8vo. 264pp. Near Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Light general wear.

First Edition. c.1972. Hardcover. Oblong Folio. Unpaginated. Lavishly illustrated. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Mild general shelfwear. Rubbing to jacket with a few instances of light loss to laminate, small piece of masking tape affixed to rear panel.

The Industries of Japan, together with an Account of Its Agriculture, Forestry, Arts, and Commerce
Rein, J. J.

Hardcover. c.1889. Cloth. Gilt titles and cover decoration, gilt edge. 4to. 570pp. Color frontis, 44 illustrations, 3 maps. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, moderate rubbing to corners, spine-ends chipped with small closed tears in cloth, edges rubbed.

Fifth revised edition, 1964, hardcover, octavo, 782pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with some sun to spine and edges of boards, binding tight, inscriptions to front flyleaf and rear pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG- with edge wear that includes a few small closed tears and their related creases, mild rubbing and toning.

The Constitution of the Empire of Japan with the Speeches Addressed to Students of Political Science in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 17, 1889
n/a

First printing, 1889, paperback, octavo, 47pp., not illustrated. Book VG with tied binding tender, rubbing and general soil to panels, text clean with some mild pencil to margins. No DJ.

Three Volumes. c.1951-1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 260pp. / 223pp. / 231pp. Volume One in illustrated boards, Volumes Two and Three in dustjackets. Light general shelfwear, chipping and creasing to dustjackets with moderate loss to foot of spine of Volume Two, moderate soil to boards of Volume One.

First edition, 1994. Softcover, 160 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light rubbing to the covers.

First edition, 1971. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 159 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, owner's name-sticker on the front pastedown, some soiling to the page-edges, dust jacket with some soiling and discoloration, dust jacket also with rubbing and light wear to the tips.