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193588894Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways 1935. Revised Edition. Paperback. Good. illustrations folding map 50p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover chips and tears reglued here and there leaving some small gaps on narrow backstrip and in upper right corner of front cover. Internally sound with some creasing and dog-earing. An uncommon tourist guide. <br/><br/> Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways paperback books
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 books
196040126Tokyo: Meiji jing shamusho 1960. Linen with gilt titles. Light foxing along fore edge and blank else a very good bright copy in a very good cardboard slipcase torn along the fold. Unpaged. 170 pp. Illus. with 80 color plates and 4 b/w photos. Folio. Osanaga Kanroji preface. Captions and text in English and Japanese. Reproduces the pictures that are painted by famous artists which depict the lives of the Emperor and Empress Meiji.The gallery is located in the center of Meiji Park in Tokyo. [Meiji jing shamusho] unknown books
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 books
197189055Tokyo: Minstry of Foreign Affairs Tokyo 1971. Paperback. Very Good. color illustrations 88 unnumbered p. Softcover in original wrapper an off white jacket over untitled red paper. 28cm. Wrapper lightly soiled and has some staining on and around backstrip. Contents sound and clean. <br/><br/> Minstry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo paperback books
193782706Tokyo: Department of Education 1937. Paperback. Very Good. folding organizational chart photos ii 123p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. <br/><br/> Department of Education paperback books
194279559Manila: Department of Information Imperial Japanese Forces 1942. Paperback. Poor. 4 vii 1 86p. Original wrapper. 15cm. Cover intact but worn and rather stained. Bottom third of title-page gone as is top fifth of the next Contents leaf. Also lacks final six pages --we don't know what those pages contained. Contents browned; some dog-earing. <br/><br/> Department of Information, Imperial Japanese Forces paperback books
193344204Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways 1933. Illustrated paper wrappers. Very good minor wear and tear along edges most prevalent on spine inked inscription on first leaf faint marginal soiling and creasing. Unpaged 52 pp. Illus. with 1 color map and b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Japanese Government Railways unknown books
193378992Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis folding map photos maps 11 folding illustrated endpapers index xxii ccx 506p.Original flexible red cloth. 16cm. Page edges lightly marbled. Fraying and a tear at base of backstrip. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Japanese Government Railways hardcover books
222895Original stiff color wrappers with white silk ribbon tie; 6 1/8" x 8 3/4"; 12 pages including front and back cover; illustrated with 6 color halftones 1 b/w halftone and 1 map; very good; 1915. Booklet/prospectus for a tour from San Francisco to Japan for the Coronation of the new Emperor at Kyoto Kisen Kaisha Co. thur the Trans-Pacific Line. Scarce. F. Soft cover. paperback books
199045371990. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 62 pp. 6 bw 26 color plates. Foreword by Akiyoshi Tokoro. Essay by Phyllis Tuchman. Essay by Tadayasu Sakai. Text is in Japanese and English. Brief biography extensive list of exhibitions bibliography. unknown books
200033127Sakura: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art 2000. Softcover. VG- light soiling and light wear to extremities. White wraps with stamped illustration and stamped yellow lettering. 237 pp. Color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from March 25 - June 4 2000. Text in Japanese and English. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art paperback books
1987135715Tokyo Japan: National Museum of Modern Art 1987. Softcover. G Ex-library with few markings paged have tanned in margins otherwise very nice. Black & illus. wraps 200 pp. more than 100 BW & color illus. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1987 exhibition in Japan featuring the abstract artwork of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944. National Museum of Modern Art paperback books
1900WRCAM45650Various locations in Japan 1900. Ten leaves containing eighty photographs each 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black three- quarter morocco and cloth. Hinges and corners lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing primarily to mounts and not images. Prints sharp and clear. Very good. Eighty attractive images of turn-of-the- century Japan as seen through a Western lens. Evidently narrating a trip in Japan each photograph is captioned in English usually stating location which include Kagoshima the Kuma River Kumamoto Nakatshu Fukuoka Nagasaki and Isahaya. While most of the images show landscapes and the scenery of the area many of them include local people - at temple and shrines in city streets going about every day life. Of particular interest are a photograph of a woodcutter's hut with the family in the foreground a fortuneteller plying his trade a group of young men washing vegetables a view of Suizenji Park a Buddhist Temple threshing rice the sulphur springs at Nagasaki and various scenes in native villages. A nice collection of images with the bookplate of New Zealand photo-historian Frederic Hardwicke Knight. hardcover books
1987WRCLIT70060Kanagawa: Kanagawa Prefectural Government 1987. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white photographs. Slight bump to lower foretips otherwise fine in dust jacket and slightly scraped board slipcase First edition. Text in Japanese but with separate narrow quarto printing of English translations laid in. A beautifully executed photographic homage to the prefecture its people and its physical features. With laid in compliments slip from the Governor. Kanagawa Prefectural Government hardcover 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
194222314Tokyo: Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. Blue and silver boards in slipcase. Case structurally sound but heavily water-stained with scuffing and chipping to spine ends and corners. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped at corners. Endpapers toned. Very good in good slipcase. 72pp. <br/><br/>Black and white photographs of the Japanese navy during World War II dramatically composed and arranged for wartime propaganda purposes. Includes one of the earliest published sequence of images of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Additionally illustrated with maps and drawings. Text in Japanese. Scarce. Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha hardcover books
19301598251930. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes mounted in an album. Small folio 305 x 225mm bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. Japan 1930's. An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first quarter of the twentieth century. Fruits vegetables spirits candies canned meats and fishes are all represented on colourful labels featuring combined western and Japanese design sensibilities. They are neatly tipped into an accordion style album of thick pale blue paper and mostly remain in fine 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
12689Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An extraordinary collection of five Japanese pressed LPs each signed by the primary artist while on tour in Japan 1973-78 and including an especially rare signed copy of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." <br style="">The support for jazz in Japan has long been immense and also remarkably consistent. Even during a slump in the United States in the 70's that threatened to put many American jazz labels and musicians out of business American jazz artists flocked to Japan to perform with many releasing "Live in Japan" albums including Miles Davis Bill Evans and Sarah Vaughan. ''Japan almost singlehandedly kept the jazz record business going during the late 1970's'' said a producer with Blue Note Records Michael Cuscuna. ''Without the Japanese market a lot of independent jazz labels probably would have folded or at least stopped releasing new material.'' NY Times "In Japan Jazz Resurges As a National Passion" 1/7/88  <br>Each album includes the original obi strip spine card the piece of paper wrapped around the spine of Japanese LPs the term obi designating the sash around a kimono Kimono no obi. Japanese pressings generally feature very high quality vinyl and the present examples are all in fine condition rated individually below. Four of them are dated by the obtainer of the signature or by the artist Simone. <br style="">BILL EVANS - NEW CONVERSATIONS.  Label: WARNER P-10516<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 13 September 1978 signed dated and inscribed in black ink on the front cover. <br style=""><br style="">SARAH VAUGHAN WITH CLIFFORD BROWN<br style="">Label: MERCURY BT-1324<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : EDJ<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 26 April 1975 signed in black ink on the front cover.  <br style="">NINA SIMONE - SPELL ON YOU<br style="">Label: PHILIPS SFX-7167<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E-W<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 1973 signed and dated in black ink on the record label and to an interior page of the album booklet<br style=""><br style="">DEXTER GORDON - APARTMENT<br style="">Label: STEEPLECHASE RJ-7101<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 25 September 1975 signed in black ink on the front cover by Dexter Gordon Kenny Drew Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and Albert "Tootsie" Heath<br style=""><br style="">MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE<br style="">Label: CBS/SONY SOPL-155Cover : EW/ Record : EObi stripe: EObtained 1975 signed in silver ink "Miles Davis" on the front cover. <br style=""><br style=""><br style="">The present collection includes several remarkable rarities but the highlight is surely the exceedingly rare signed copy of what is widely regarded to be the greatest jazz album of all time Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." Davis was notoriously prickly and a generally reluctant autograph signer. Though authentic autograph signatures are certainly obtainable we are aware of only one other extant authentically signed copy also sold by Schubertiade of Davis's greatest masterpiece. Of the previous example sold by Schubertiade noted jazz collector and dealer Larry Rafferty noted that in his 40 years of collecting jazz autographs this is "absolutely the only copy I have ever seen -- or heard of" and our research further confirms that no signed copies have appeared at auction or in trade catalogues.  <br style="">The best-selling jazz record of all time is universally acknowledged as a masterpiece revered as much by rock and classical music fans as by jazz lovers. Kind of Blue brought together seven now-legendary musicians in the prime of their careers: tenor saxophonist John Coltrane alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly bassist Paul Chambers drummer Jimmy Cobb and of course trumpeter Miles Davis. To the musicians who recorded it Kind of Blue was just another session when it was released in August 1959. But the disc was quickly recognized by the jazz community as a classic. Jazz musicians were startled by the truly different sound on an album that laid out a clear roadmap for further modal explorations. "So What" became the tune the one that every musician -- not just the practitioners of jazz -- simply had to know. The other tracks also quickly became standards and the individual solos throughout the record continue to inspire musicians to this day. Drummer Jimmy Cobb puts it all down to simplicity -- the reason Kind of Blue has remained so successful for so long. And because of its inherent balance historian Dan Morgenstern adds the album never wears out its welcome.<br style=""> unknown books
15852438<p>Venice: Appreso I Gioliti 1585. </p><p>Price: $8500.00 </p><p>Octavo: 16 x 10.5 cm. 188 11 pp. Collation: A-M8 N4</p><p>One of several 1585 editions first ed. 1584</p><p>Bound in modern cartoncino. A very good copy with some minor repairs lightly washed. With a fine woodcut headpiece and Jesuit emblem on the title page and numerous decorative head- and tailpieces and initials including one of a dragon throughout.</p><p>This collection contains the following letters from the Jesuit missions in Japan and Goa: Francesco Carreón writing from Kuchinotsu 1 Dec. 1579; Gregorio de Céspedes 1579; Lorenço Mexia at Bungo 20 Oct. 1580; three letters by LuÃs Fróis Miyako 14 April 1581; 19 May 1581; and 29 May 1581; Francesco Cabral 15 Sept. 1581; and Alessandro Valignano Goa 28 Dec. 1583.<br /><br />The Salsette Martyrs:<br /><br />This collection concludes with Valignano's important letter from Goa –one of only five Jesuit letters from India published between 1570 and 1585- detailing the deaths of the Jesuit Martyrs of Cuncolim who were killed on Monday 25 July 1583 in the village of Cuncolim in the district of Salsette territory of Goa India. The "martyrs" were the Italian Rudolph Acquaviva the Spaniard Alphonso Pacheco the Swiss Peter Berno the Portuguese Anthony Francis and Brother Francis Aranha also a Portuguese. In addition the Portuguese layman Gonçalo Rodrigues and some Indian youths Dominic Alphonso Francis Rodrigues Paul da Costa and ten others were also killed.<br /><br />While prosecuting their mission of Conversion in Cuncolim the Jesuits and their companions desecrated a Hindu temple by urinating in it a relatively mild if repugnant form of desecration; on an earlier excursion Father Berno had set fire to another temple and destroyed a sacred anthill. In addition they killed a cow that was also an object of worship and hurled its entrails into a sacred well thereby defiling it. The understandably outraged citizenry set upon the Jesuits and their companions killing them with scimitars lances and arrows. They then threw their bodies into a well. The five Jesuits quickly achieved great fame as martyrs and at last in the 19th century were elevated to sainthood while the lay Indians who were slaughtered with them were ignored. <br /><br />It should be remembered that three of the five Jesuit martyrs were in Cuncolim as chaplains to a force of Portuguese soldiers sent to exact harsh reprisals for indigenous resistance to Portuguese rule and the Jesuit campaign of forced conversion. In this context the killing of the Jesuits is remembered by the people of modern day Cuncolim as one of the first acts of revolutionary resistance to European rule in India.<br /><br />Of course the letter written in December of 1583 by the Jesuit Provincial of India Alessandro Valignano glorifies the "martyrs" and in true martyrological style vividly describes the deaths of Acquaviva and his companions.<br /><br />"The Pagans then fell upon them; Father Rudolph received five cuts from a scimitar and a spear and died praying God to forgive them and pronouncing the Holy Name. Father Berno was next horribly mutilated and Father Pacheco wounded with a spear fell on his knees extending his<br />arms in the form of a cross and praying God to forgive his murderers and send other missionaries to them.</p><p>Streit Bibliotheca Missionum IV. 1639; Sommervogel II col 492; Cordier Sinica 75; Laures 170</p> Appreso I Gioliti, books
1998179421998. Hardcover. VG. Color boards. 180 pp. Numerous bw and color plates. Text in Japanese and French. hardcover books
1904162512New York: the monthly 1904. Sewn untrimmed textblock printed letterpress on calendared paper pp.641 - 648 a total of 8p. 641-800p. issue in entirety with ads plain printed terracotta journal wraps. Cover sheets quite edgeworn and detached or nearly so with much chipping of spine panel textblock is sound and clean. the monthly unknown books
2002014057Japan: Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization 2002. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix 118p. maps Bibliography index. Naga City case study as a clue to Philippine politics with many insights found nowhere else. Already a scarce item most copies are found in university libraries. Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization unknown books
1999816991999. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations some color 525p. Wrapper. 30cm. Japanese text summaries in English. We used the English title which appears on the cover and title-page along with the Japanese. <br/><br/> paperback books