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187826953Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes 1878. Color map of this area only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back blank panels of the map of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894 & often on-station in various locales in Japan; he has noted a couple of dates on the map journeying from Ozaka to Nara in 1889. A little splitting along old fold lines; in good condition. Map. Not Bound. Good. Justus Perthes paperback books
193022672Tokyo Japan: Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha 1930. 512 pages; with a color fold-out plate of a woman in traditional Japanese costume; another single-page color plate by Kodera; an approx. 23" long folding cartoon-illustrated story tinted in reds; a blue half-tone fold-out section illustrated with male athletic sculptural figures; and black and white illustrations throughout via line drawings cartoon stories some photo-portraits accompanying articles sporting figures including American swim team; text in Japanese; approx. 6" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated paper covers with information for California importation perhaps the publication targeted for the Japanese community there; front cover edge-chipped about detached old tape residue; colors faded; no back cover or spine covering; still about good condition and an interesting compendium of pre-WWII Japanese culture and society in good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha Paperback books
191020624Nakatsucho Japan 1910. 7.5 x 10.5 in. oblong in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese folding map and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in the upper and middle reaches of the Yamaguni River in Nakatsu City Oita Prefecture the Yabakei Valley is considered one of Japan's most beautiful scenic areas. Among the views included here are Sugi Village from Blue Grotto Peak of Kyoshu Hachioji Rock Rakanji Temple Goryu Falls Nembutsu Bridge and other bridges waterfalls and geologic formations. unknown books
1986206804New York: Japan Society 1986. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Numerous photographic illustrations in color & in black & white. 4to red cloth d.w. crease on front cover. New York: Japan Society 1986. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Japan Society unknown books
19342152Kumamoto Japan: Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission 1934. Sewn binding. Illustrated paper with traditional thread binding. Very good. 31 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorative translucent booklet regarding the Janice James School built at the foot of Mt. Tatsuda in Kumamoto City on land purchased in 1921. Describing the history of mission work in Japan the account of the girls school the widows home the old-age home - accompanied by black and white photos. Includes a card intended for slipping between the pages to block the light and make it easier to read. Covers lightly soiled with crease marks. Interior light foxing. <br/><br/> Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission unknown books
3655a TLS. 2pg. 8 ¼†x 10â€. July 15 1920. Yokohama Japan. A typed letter signed “Neil†laced with anti-Semitic sentiment. In part: “Went out calling last night with the bunch of fellows across the street. The host and his side partner are N.Y. Jews but sort of decent people. The wife is very nice but the husband is a regular East Sider. He is always talking about ‘not that I mind the expense of the house here but the servant is always telling about the money she needs for this and that and I can’t see where it goes to.’ You know just about what kind of a guy he is better than I do no doubt and you haven’t seen him. Anyway it was sort of a pleasant evening as he left the States in March and brought a lot of the new songs with him. He is a very good piano player and I had a fine time listening to him. One of the songs he played and ‘tried to sing’ just like John was ‘Pal of Mine’ you know how nice it was in comparison to the real singer and this Jew did the same stunt of turning to his wife too as John does to his wife when she sits up in the box. The husband was just a regular N.Y. smart alex Jew.†Typed on letterhead from Yokohama’s Grand Hotel which famously burned down as a result of the devastating 1923 Great Kanto earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. b TLS. 3pg. 8 ¼†x 10â€. July 19 1920. Yokohama Japan. A typed letter signed “Neil†regarding work and life as an American abroad in early 20th century Japan. In part: “There isn’t much doing as for excitement but just hang around and do nothing. I really think I am gaining weight on the job. I met a fellow here who deals in all sorts of dress goods from Boston and I am getting on the right side of him as he gets all his stuff from here and I may be able to get some things for you people wholesale when you need them. He is one of us you get me being from Boston and a very fine chap. Eleanor will have nothing on me then getting things wholesale. About the only thing we need now wholesale is to get a bank to give us more money on our checks when we cash in. I am thinking of buying a kimono for Connors in the office for his wife as they are married in the Fall. He is a nice fellow and I thought for his trouble in calling up and the like I would bring him back one. I am not sure about it as yet but I think I will.†Typed on letterhead from Yokohama’s Grand Hotel which famously burned down as a result of the devastating 1923 Great Kanto earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. unknown books
1939865811939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 9. Tokyo Seibundo Showa 14 1939. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues were full of scientific and perceptive articles and illustrated with color and bw plates and reproductions of posters ads signboards etc. etc. Despite a bi-lingual title on the title page inside the text is entirely in Japanese. Ephemeral issues from early Showa have largely disappeared. Reduced price because the lower left corner of the cover and first 5-10 pages are damaged. unknown books
19699023814Tokyo: International House of Japan 1969. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original orange wraps stamped in blind. Chipped at the heel. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and multi-color letterpress with an original silkscreen p. 9 handmade by craftsmen at the Toppan Plant from Hiroshi Tanaka's prize-winning design. Price list from the exhibit and raffle laid in. Book design by Helmuth Holtz. <br/><br/> International House of Japan paperback books
19659023832Tokyo: International House of Japan 1965. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated paper wraps over printed wraps. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and full color plates tipped in. Errata tipped in. <br/><br/> International House of Japan paperback books
19072222218<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated by S. Morita and R. S. Hayata.Frontispiece portrait. Original green pictorial cloth with design in red white pink and gilt of rising sun flag Mt. Fuji and cherry blossom t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good. 301 pages; 22 pages of reviews and ads. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed by The Wilkens-Sheiry Press Washington D.C.</p><p>Front pastedown with text in Japanese.</p> The Baker & Taylor Company hardcover books
1939866131939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 8. Tokyo Seibundo Showa 14 1939. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon was in charge of photography. The issues were full of scientific and perceptive articles and illustrated with color and bw plates and reproductions of posters ads signboards etc. etc. Despite a bi-lingual title on the title page inside the text is entirely in Japanese. Ephemeral issues from early Showa have largely disappeared. The fragile paper is in nice condition overall. Lacking back wrapper but text is complete and priced accordingly. unknown books
191044085Kobe: Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi N.d. ca 1910. Oblong octavo 18cm x 26cm. Original silk-covered boards bouond with red silk cord; 19 colored collotype plates. Gift inscription from an N.L. Thacker on verso of title page dated 1914; child's ownership inscription on verso of final plate "Ermy Tharp Novato Cal" dated 1936. Rubbing and wear to board edges; internally clean and sound - a Very Good copy with all plates present. An attractive Meiji Era souvenir album with subtly hand-tinted collotype plates depicting a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony. One of several editions produced between 1906 and 1920; per the excellent bibliography of Tamamura's souvenir albums at ours would appear to be the Third Edition of 1910. Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi unknown books
19520000173Tokyo: Shinbun Gekkansha Showa 27 1952. First edition. Good . 4to variously paginated numerous illustrations from photographs facsimiles. Publisher's tan cloth backed in gilt-lettered brown pigskin. Text mostly in Japanese. Small loss at the top of the spine binding lightly soiled & rubbed corners bumped previous owner's name & chop at rear blank page. <br/><br/>A massive volume of over a thousand pages compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is a compendium of mostly Japanese documents relating to the Pacific War. Special attention is focused on the final months focusing on peace feelers in May 1945 through Moscow the Battle of Okinawa the demand for "unconditional surrender" the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the final fateful War Council in the Imperial Presence in which the Emperor spoke for peace and the decision to have the Emperor announce the surrender on radio to his subjects. The work is organized into 60 sections beginning with war plans and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 to the arrival of General MacArthur as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Tokyo Bay on the U.S.S. Missouri to officiate at the surrender ceromony on September 2 1945. Changes in war leadership and cabinets as well as in war policy political diplomatic social and economic conditions are covered in intervening sections. Shinbun Gekkansha hardcover books
199524033Niigata Japan: Blue Jacket Press 1995. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Sold here together are six early issues of Blue Beat Jacket a Japan-based magazine devoted to poetry and the beat generation. Edited by Yusuke Keida. Text in both English and Japanese. All issues in illustrated stapled wrappers and are all in fine condition. Issue # 12 published in 1997 is a special Gerald Locklin issue. Spread throughout these issues are articles on the beats poems drawings and articles. Blue Jacket Press paperback books
18802560561880. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. Foxing waterstain on mount extending into top of image. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. WH/9/Box D unknown books
1904316621Boston: Dana Estes 1904. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Bound in modern half brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Dana Estes unknown books
1936316722London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1936. Bound ion three quarters modern polished crimson calf and marbled baords. Fine. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd unknown books
1904316723London: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd 1904. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern mottled brown calf and marble boards red title label. Fine. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Anthony Treherne & Co., Ltd unknown books
1922409811922. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF JAPAN. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF BOTANY. Transactions and Abstracts. Tokyo: 1922-1941. Volumes 1-11 the serial continued until 1970. Vols. 2-11 bound in black cloth vol.1 #1-4 in wrappers. Wrappers torn at spines front wrapper missing of vol.1 #2. Some soiling at boards. Very good. unknown books
17162Girls Education Japan Photograph album from a girl student in Japan c. 1926. Filled with 78 original silver gelatin print photographs of classmates school activities and social outings. Original cloth and red boards. 10 x 7.5 in. "Photo Album" printed on front cover. Pasted label on the final page with some information on the original owner dated 1926. Photographs of various small sizes from 1.75 x 2.5 inches to 3 x 5". Many images are school portraits of teenage girls in their matching uniforms posing either individually in pairs or small groups. Occasional photographs of teenage boys as well including one with the sitter dressed in a samurai outfit. Photos of a field day with outdoor footraces marches and performances. A few later photographs of older young women in civilian clothes posing by a river and strolling in a park together. These may be images of some of the younger students years later as adults. Most of the images show figures in Western styles clothes although 2 photographs show women dressed up in kimonos. Images lack captions but there is an autograph on one photograph. Some soiling to cover and 8 sheets of album are detached from spine. Unique images are in very good condition. unknown books
2855Taipeh: The Bureau Printed by the Toppan Printing Co. Tokyo 1918. . Tall narrow brochure with small half-tone on front which is printed in back and light green. Formosa was ceded to Japan at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895 by the Treaty of Shimonoseki.in. It remained under Japanese rule until the end of WWII when it was returned to China. At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1947 the defeated Chiang Kai-shek fled with his follows to the Island Formosa became the Republic of China and the Chinese mainland was named the People's Republic of China. A rare survivor of a troubled time. Taipeh: [ The Bureau] Printed by the Toppan Printing Co. (Tokyo], 1918. unknown books
5101WORLD WAR II IN JAPAN. ALS. 2pgs. October 1 1945. Hirosaki Japan. An autograph letter signed “Dale†Christensen written home by an Allied serviceman stationed in Japan shortly after the official end of World War II. “Well I haven’t had a chance to write for some time. We made it up here O.K. but the ship sure was loaded. We landed at Aomori and this place is inland about 30 miles. We have had no trouble at all. We spent the first night at an airport and then moved to another Army camp the next day then the third bn came up and took over here. I was in on the big thing at this camp I came up with the first gen jeeps and saw the Jap General sign the camp over to us then to top it all off I was picked to take the Jap General to his home. He talked to me all the way but I didn’t know a thing he said. When he got out he saluted me. He seemed happy about the whole thing. The climate here is good and cool. We have a big mt right afore us and it looks just like Mt Fugiama sic. They say it sure gets cold here in the winter. The rice is just headed out and it is very pretty here but I hope I can soon come home…We are cleaning this camp up now it sure needed it. I don’t see how the Japs lived in it. Bugs and dirt all over. We sure are making a change in the looks of it. They say they might give each one of us a Jap Rifle and bayonet to take home I don’t think there is any thing to it. I sure would like to have one. They sure can grow the fruit and garden stuff here but they sure are way behind in the way to live. I think even behind the Philippines…The papulation sic of this place in 97000 and Aomori – 57000. Aomori was bombed and it sure was smashed and burned. Well we have a few Japs working in this camp and I think as a whole they will like better from now on that ever before. There clothes are all patches but they look healthy and happy. Well I will write more later. I hope we soon get a mail call. Tell Ann and the rest Hello. Everything is fine here. Write soon. Dale.†The letter is in fine condition. hardcover books
193555196Tokyo: Tokyo City Government 1935. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Flexible silk-wrapped boards with silk ties. Minor rubbing else Fine. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Tokyo City Government unknown books
188117327Japan 1881. A newsheet insert or separate broadside publication printed one side only; approx.16 1/2" h. x 23" w. about a 1" margin surround; portraits of the British political worthies of the time; Japanese characters at top and bottom margins with title in English as well; appears to be a lithographic process; corners mounted to a larger paper sheet; edges with some wear and tear a few old reinforcements at edges; a little darkened one 1/2" chip at bottom edge; overall good condition and an interesting piece of British political ephemera from Asia. Good. unknown books
23566Japan Two volumes; 255 266 pages; color black and white illustrations some folding showing Japanese swords and sword-making techniques blacksmithing various sword furniture tsuba sheaths decorative work portraits of famous makers; text entirely in Japanese; part of a larger set; these are volumes numbered 6 & 7; approximately 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" size; bound in light gray cloth gilt cover titles with blindstamped design of swordsmith at anvil; black spine titles; purple silk page-markers; a little wear and ageing to the cloth faint old discoloration on one unobtrusive; contents clean and bound very well in very good condition and a good reference to the ancient techniques & craft of sword-making in Japan. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
