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198338384New York: Gallery Books 1983. Folio. 176 pp. Colour frntsp. 70 colour illust. & plates 122 blk & wht illusts. Black boards gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition 2nd printing of this well-illustrated survey of Japanese prints from the 17th to the 20th century. Gallery Books, hardcover
199538028New York: Weatherhill/ Phoenix Art Museum 1995. Thick 4to. x 2 313 1 pp. 100s of colour and blk & wht plates illusts. some large folding. Brown cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this beautifully illustrated catalogue of the deluxe Japanese woodblock prints owned by Frank Lloyd Wright which were only recently discovered in the 1980s. Weatherhill/ Phoenix Art Museum, hardcover
193261354Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1932. 8vo. 8 501 1 pp. Title in yellow & black. Black publisher’s cloth small inset illust. by Willard on front cover yellow lettering on spine slight shelfwear very minor rubbing w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art by Howard Willard price-clipped slight chipping head & foot of spine edgewear couple minor closed tears still NF/VG- copy. First edition stated of this excellent historical biography of the famed William Adams 1564-1620 an early British sailor & navigator who in 1600 reached Japan on the Dutch East India Co. ship the Liefde and was forced to remain in Japan. He eventually became a Western samurai and key advisor to the Shogun Tokugawa leyasu and also served as the basis for Clavell’s character John Blackthorne in Shogun filmed originally in 1980 starring Richard Chamberlain Toshiro Mifune and Yoko Shimada. Doubleday, Doran & Co., hardcover
191058802Kyoto Japan: The Kyoto Commercial Museum Meiji 431910. 8vo. 6.5 x 9 in. 8 38 i.e. 52 2 28 2 55 3 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 7 double-page colour woodcut plates tipped-in some of the illustrated ads with colour-printing. Delicate coral pink & white illustrated silk cloth punch-sewn in Japanese style w/ silk braids at gutter margin decorative gilt lettering soot soiling & spotting to covers rubbing to corners head & foot of spine slight fraying to ties still VG- copy. First edition of this catalogue issued by the Kyoto Commercial Museum opened in 1909 to be distributed in conjunction with the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition held in London from May to Oct. 1910. As the largest exposition ever participated in by Japan to that point they intended it as a display of Japanese manufacturing and trade goods. This catalogue features the textile fabrics dyeings embroidery work ceramics lacquer ware toys basketry umbrellas garden & seed items and more. Of special interest are the well-executed colour Japanese woodblock prints depicting Kyoto Dances the Gion Festival Dyeing Embroidery Potters fan making and metalworking. The Kyoto Commercial Museum, hardcover
197950490Tokyo: Kairyu-sha 1979. Folio. 174 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Colour-illustrated title colour frontisp. 100 colour photos colour illustrations text illustrations & diagrams. Gray cloth gilt lettering on spine green endpapers w/ original glassine d.j. preserved in open-backed slipcase colour photo-illustrated covers F/NF/NF copy. First edition of this very scarce and beautifully printed work on how to create and design Japanese folded paper flower arrangements by Miyuki Iida. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Diet Library. Kairyu-sha, hardcover
197750489Tokyo: Kairyu-sha 1977. Folio. 178 pp. Over 100 colour photos colour illustrations text illustrations & diagrams. White patterned boards lettering embossed in blind on front cover silver endpapers w/ original glassine d.j. preserved in open-backed slipcase colour photo & silver lettering on cover F/NF/NF copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and beautifully printed work on how to create and design Japanese folded paper flower wedding bouquets and flower arrangements by Miyuki Iida. No copies located in Worldcat. Kairyu-sha, hardcover
198350494Tokyo: Kairyu-sha 1983. Folio. 148 1 pp. plus 1 pp. publ. ads. Colour-illustrated title over 100 colour photos colour illustrations text illustrations & diagrams. White cloth gilt illustration of paper rose on front cover gilt lettering on spine gray endpapers w/ original colour-illustrated d.j. NF/NF copy w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this very scarce and beautifully printed work on how to create and design Japanese folded paper flower arrangements by Miyuki Iida. No copies located in Worldcat. Kairyu-sha, hardcover
198361090Tokyo & Kyoto: Unsodo; Shinmi Saburo olour to Woodblocks 1983. Three vols. 62; 62 unpaginated; 73 1 pp. printed & bound in Japanese-style bifolium. With 50 hand-coloured plates. First two vols. bound in limp thick brown paper printed paper labels punch-sewn at gutter margin as issued; 3rd volume in brown silk linen printed paper label on front cover all three preserved in purple-silk folding case simulated bone catches at fore-edges printed illustrated label front cover preserved in original box w/ label on front cover F/F copy. First facsimile edition 1 of 200 copies of this scarce reprint of the 1907 Meiji-era original first printed by Yoshikawa Hanschichi. Asai and his close friend the poet Ikebe Toen 1864-1923 conceived and executed tthis set of a Meiji audience by critiquing the tension between the modernizing Japan at the beginning of the 20th Century with traditional Japanese culture and individuals facing off with each other against the Westernization of Japan. These are considered Asai Chu’s best-known printed work and they imitated the popular satirical and comic magazines of the age in Europe. Complete original sets are scarce and Unsodo produced this splendid recreation of the work nicely coloured by Saburo and with extended commentary in Japanese. Worldcat locates 3 copies of the Unsodo edition The Met UBC National Diet. Unsodo; Shinmi Saburo [(olour to Woodblocks), unknown
192949701Tokyo Japan: Arusa Showa 4 1929. Tall 8vo. 8 16 72 37 3 pp. Including colour-decorated title page 2 colour plates printed glossy paper stock 16 pp. of printed photo illustrations on glossy stock 56 pp. of nicely printed colour lithograph illustrations numerous black & white illustrations. Colour-decorated printed softcovers in gray brown gilt & red minor darkening to spine slight chipping head of spine VG copy. First edition of this scarce installment in the famed series on modern graphic design in Japan filled with design examples and suggestions from Japan Russia Europe Britain and America inspired by Art Nouveau Bauhaus Constructivism Dada Art Deco and more. This beautifully illustrated work includes inspired designs for cosmetics packaging chocolate boxes perfumes soaps match covers tea & coffee tins cigar wrappers cigar labels cigarette labels beer menus noodle packages wine labels advertising business cards and even display posters. Arusa, paperback
200138264Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum 2001. 4to. xvi 176 pp. 177 photos illusts. colour plates. Colour-illust. softcvrs mnr shlfwr slght rubbng still VG copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce exhibition catalogue presenting the toys clothes and images of children divided into four themes -- The World of Children Growing Up Parental Hopes and Dreams Sacred Children. Tokyo National Museum, hardcover
189032522AB1890. Japan Kyoto / Nikko and other locations c. 1890-1900. Each slide 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm. One Plate in Black-and-White all other 44 Plates in colour. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Plates with their original uncleaned Patina. Only one slide with a slightly broken off corner held by a strip of paper. unknown
110834Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo with scenes of Mt Fuji a pagoda and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang Seoul and Pusan with '38° LINE' in a much larger font across the centre. The album 275 × 390 mm contains three series of commercially produced small photographic views loosely inserted behind photo-corners 40 hand-coloured views of Japan; 56 black and white views of Tokyo; and 40 black and white views of the Kure-Hiro district as well as 11 larger personal photographs of Bangkok. The last three items in the album are more significant: they are professionally produced photographs of two destroyers of the RAN - HMAS 'Anzac' D59 and HMAS 'Warramunga' D123 - and a large group portrait of three officers and twelve sailors of the 'Warramunga'. Both these ships served in the Korean War. The album and its contents appear to have been purchased by one of the crew members of the 'Warramunga' after she became one of the first Australian warships assigned to the Far East Strategic Reserve in 1955. unknown
1902174898Leipzig.: Bibliographisches Institut. 1902-1908. Map printed in colour 27.2 x 21.4 cm inset colour key to territorial administration by country inset "western continuation of the main chart" including the Gulf of Tschili and Tsientsin and two insets at the foot of the map to the Kuril and the Ryuku Islands text in Geman central fold slight edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive map text in German prepared for Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. . Bibliographisches Institut unknown
218287Japan. Late 20th Century. Beautiful set of 4 stencilled Chiyogami papers each sheet approx. 48 x 31.5 cms in very good unused condition. The online image shows a detail only. . unknown
1979218045Tokyo.: Japan Art & Culture Association. 1979. Colour and black and white photographic plates 58pp. 21 x 25.5cm. Text in Japanese and English. Covers a little worn in places spine sunned otherwise a very good paperback copy. . Japan Art & Culture Association. paperback
194143024Japan 1941. Loose in a black clamshell box. Very good copies with slight curl; some with small edge or corner tears; 23 have the name of the film or featured actors/actresses rubber-stamped on the back in Japanese. 47 b/w photos. Approximately 6 x 4 inches. One duplicate. Most are group scenes from dramas a few portraits a few without characters; subject matter ranges from early historical dramas to contemporary scenes to the war and its effects. The dates have been verified on a few and all fall during the years of the Pacific War including Tadashi Imai's Tanjiko-mura 1940 "Hanagoyomi hasshojin" 1940 based on the 19th century novel "Josei hongan" 1940 made in the same year as the novel by Kan Kikuchi Yasuki Chiba's "Kuso buraku" 1939. The balance of the stills appear to date within approximately the same period. unknown
196262609Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1962. 12mo. xvi 17-142 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. With colour frontisp. 123 text photo illustrations. Tan publisher’s cloth black lettering w/ d.j. cover art illust. of young woman in kimono and wearing elaborate headdress and wisteria blossoms chipping head of spine tidemark to back fore-edge of spine edgewear still VG/G copy w/ w/ Japan Publication Trading Co. label on rear flyleaf. First edition stated of No. 26 in the Japan Travel Bureau’s Tourist Library Series and one of the scarcest titles detailing the necessary accessories for Japanese dress including the Obi Obijime Han-eri Braided Cords Katakake Tebukuro Kanzashi purses head coverings footwear and more. Japan Travel Bureau, hardcover
190040351Weissenburg im Elsas: Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf 1900. A very good copy light toning colors vibrant. 1 sheet. Chromolithograph. 33.5 x 43 cm 13 1/4 x 17 inches. Template for the construction of a Japanese infantry cap on thin cardboard. Many such military related items were printed during the German Imperial period. C. Burckhardt Nachfolger was a successor firm to Imagerie Wentzel and one of the largest producers of paper lithographic items. Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf unknown
195419811Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau. 1954. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Very light soiling/dampstaining to front board. Originally laid-in addendum nicely taped into book as first few pages with tape yellowing but not affecting readability. Last 50 pages stained from beverage but not affecting readability. Else a handsome copy with all maps present and in NF condition ; Extremely detailed travel guide with numerous fold-out maps; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xxxvii 1015 pages . Japan Travel Bureau hardcover
19573436Chiba Japan 1957. Very good plus. Title leaf plus 18 leaves illustrated with forty-three large photographs between 4 x 6 and 8 x 10 inches including a few small panoramic images most with typed captions mounted beneath the pictures. Oblong folio. Contemporary light brown leather. Minor scuffing and edge wear. A unique photograph album created for an American businessman named Richard F. Quandt "In Remembrance of Your Visit to Chiba Iron and Steel Works on May 14 1957" according to the printed dedication on the title leaf. The printed message is signed by the founder of Kawasaki Steel Yataro Nishiyama. The album is populated by over forty photographs featuring the construction and operation of Kawasaki Steel's new integrated steel mill in Chiba City Japan. The photographs picture the staff of Chiba Works a schematic of the plant aerial views of the plant images of the blast furnace coke oven ore yard and other exteriors. Some of the exterior shots include small panoramas of the plant's construction most notably a three-panel panorama showing the "Entire View of Hot & Cold Strip Mill Plant's Construction Work." The interior photographs document the heat control center open heart furnaces soaking pits and several candid shots of Mr. Quandt touring the plant with the managers of Kawasaki Steel.<br /> <br /> According to his 1974 obituary in The New York Times Richard Frederick Quandt was a Hungarian-born businessman who emigrated to the United States after World War II. He first worked for the Hambro Trading Company in 1949. At the time he visited the Chiba Iron and Steel Works he was serving as a loan officer for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development the lending arm of the World Bank. He was quite likely visiting the Chiba Works at the request of their principal Yataro Nishiyama in search of funding for the steel mill. Nishiyama was an engineer who built Kawasaki Steel into one of the most important steel manufacturing companies in Japan in the ensuing decades. A wonderful and informative photographic artifact of American economic diplomacy in postwar Japan. unknown
197554004Tokyo: Japan Photographers Society 1975. First edition. Oblong small 4to. 80 pp. several hundred b&w and color photographs. Decorative stiff wrappers. Tips lightly bumped. A very good copy. Provides a visual evolution of photography in Japan; prepared for an exhibition arranged chronologically. Text in Japanese. WorldCat locate only six copies none in North America. Japan Photographers Society unknown
196119080Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau. 1961. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Slight soiling to fore edge ; Extremely detailed travel guide with numerous fold-out maps; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1016 pages . Japan Travel Bureau hardcover
19682192471968-1970. Collection of 19 items gathered on trips to Japan made between 1968-1970. 5 folding brochures including a small timetable for New Tokaido Line large folding map of Japan 3 visitor guides in stapled wrappers 2 magazines in stapled wrappers of which one from The New Otani hotel and a copy of The Nissan Graphic May 1970 issue. 5 issues of "Facts about Japan" published by the Public Information Bureau Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Envelope from International Hotel Kyoto Suntory coaster and a business card from Shinachu a restaurant in Nagoya. Overall in very good condition. This collection offers an insight into the experience of tourists in Japan before the country became a major travel destination. . unknown
19852080202103700208Japan Women's Voter Alliance 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Page number: 370p Size: 26cm B5 Japan Women's Voter Alliance paperback
178858Tokyo.: Japan Year Book Office. Sixteenth Annual Publication. 1928. Folding colour map and 2 folding plans and black & white sketch maps in the text xxxiv advertisements at front and back 698pp plus 200pp supplement includes business directory and index to advertisers legal medical shopping and gastronomical information and a bibliography. Bright red cloth covered boards inner hinge neatly re-enforced with archival tape. A very good copy clean and bright. Small blind stamp from the National Library of Australia & gilt library numbers on the spine. 22. 5 x 15.5cm. Packed with information and interesting adverts covering a wide variety of aspects about Japan and Japanese society including earthquakes volcanoes and mineral springs; the population; Imperial Court; politics and local government; civil and military service; charity and relief; education; Justice Prisons Police and Sanitation; Social Politics and Labor Problem; Women Problem sic; Sports and Amusements; Railways the press etc. The two fold out plans show the reconstruction of Tokyo and Yokohama. . Japan Year Book Office. hardcover
