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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
27503Japan: Japan Publications Trading Co. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Spots on cover otherwise good . Japan Publications Trading Co. hardcover books
1965233262Tokyo: Communist Party of Japan 1965. Magazine. Eight issues of the journal generally very good with light handling wear occasional minor marginalia. Numbers present are 36-42 and 52. The line taken reflects a turn towards China in the international communist movement's Sino-Soviet rift. Communist Party of Japan unknown books
1964264831Tokyo: Communist Party of Japan 1964. Magazine. 225p. paperback journal frot cover has "shadow" where label was formerly affixed; title neatly penned on blank spine. Includes polemics in response to Soviet criticisms of the Party. Communist Party of Japan unknown books
1963208163Tokyo: Communist Party of Japan 1963. Magazine. 32p. wraps minor creasing else good condition 5.75x8.25 inches. Includes statement on the general elections on the "Victory of Matsukawa Case" and two articles in opposition to nuclear weapons. Communist Party of Japan 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
2002789842002. illustrations some color 116 156p. 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/> unknown books
17306Japan Pleasant and decorative image of a Japanese woman holding a fan; approx. 11" h. x 7" w.; with the studio stamp "Blum" at left margin; some darkening edgewear and closed edge-tears; one corner chipped away a little other creased; still in good condition and interesting C. nineteenth century Japanese-theme imagery. Good. unknown books
191521786Japan: No Publisher 1915. Including: The Tsuragaoka-torii Kamakura Protected officially; The Daibutsu the grand Buddha; The Shariden at the Engakuji Temple; The volume of pictures explaining the origin of the Taemano-mandara; The statue of Buddha in his sermon; The statue of Shaka Buddha the chief object of worship at the Gokarakuji temple; The Arai-No Emma; The Statue of Hojo Tokiyori; The Idol of the Jizoson boddhisattva; The portrait of the boddhisattva Kokoozo painted by Kose Kanaoka; The statue of Uyesugi Shigefusa; The Mask of Aku; all noted as 'protected officially'; text in Japanese and English; final leaf with additional and untranslated Japanese text; approx. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" size with the mounting edges the group slightly larger in its packet; original gray and black paper covers side sewn with red silk cording; wear soiling corner chip to bottom corner of front cover; cards clean postally unused and in very good condition; interesting ephemeral travel and cultural information from the early part of 20th century Japan. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. No Publisher Paperback books
194520956Hokkaido Japan 1945. 9 Black and white photographs no photographer or studio credited no date however most probably circa 1945 at the time of the U.S. occupation after the Second World War; approx. 4" x 6" format; images show male and female workers some in local costume kimono and coolie hats clearing snow from tracks and buildings constructing pathways between structures and generally working diligently to move tons of snow by hand; snow is halfway up the telephone poles and absolutely covers some buildings completely the snow easily reaching to second stories on buildings in the village shown; one building looks like there is approximately 10 feet of snow on top of it being steadily shoveled off in layers; some edge tips wear and a little creasing to the photo edges one image with an old inkblot; generally well-enough taken and interesting photographs in good condition. Very Good. unknown books
194832588Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1948. First edition. Paper covered boards. Spine ends chipped and torn boards soiled a good copy. Unpaged 48 pp. Illus. with 1 color & 43 b/w photos. Folio. Contestants and winners names tipped in to rear. Japan Travel Bureau hardcover books
1911139819New York: Japan Society of New York 1911. 21p. wraps very good. Textual listing of over 200 works with introduction by Frederick W. Gookin. Japan Society of New York unknown books
19274296Toyama 1927. 1st and only ed. in English. Paperback. Fine. index iii 133p. Original wrapper. 22cm. "The library consists.of the collection originally made by Lafcadio Hearn.with some slight addition acquired by the family after his death." We currently have several "as new" copies in stock that we purchased about 20 years ago from Charles Tuttle in Rutland Vermont. <br/><br/> paperback books
195021606Japan: Artist Published 1950. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color both signed lower left in black ink both approx. 9" x 13"; with 2 ink and wash heightened and accented with white paint winter scenes approx. 10" x 14 1/2" one signed lower right; and 2 ink washes waterside scenes 10" x 14 1/4" one signed lower left. Not dated and circa 1950s; all are laid-down on to paper backers. Light wear; one of the wash pieces with a thin line-scrape; the paper backers with wear and wrinkling in margins creasing couple short tears. The artworks are in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published Paperback books
1954254221954. Softcover. VG- some fading along cover edges a bit of writing on inside back cover. Pale green wraps. Appx. 75 pp. 1 color 64 bw plates. Includes a checklist of 64 works in English. Essays & descriptions of the plates in Japanese. Essays include "Chinese Clay Figures" "Remarks on the Han Tombs of To-chi-t'ai Shensi Province" and "Folk Tales Concerning Mortuary Ware" paperback books
17275Japan Colorful and interesting group of cards varying sizes mostly 4" x 5 3/4" or thereabouts; advertizing the wares of companies in Shinjiku Nakano Jyoto Shiba Kyobashi Nihon Bashi Tokyo Yokohama Misaki Kuchinotsu Fushimi; travel clothing art tissues Suntory NCR Credit more; Isetan Mt. Fuji Nozawaya; artists Shigehiko Hiruma; mostly color one black and white card; some wear and rubbing to edges some postal cancellations a few notes; overall in good condition and an interesting ephemeral group depicting this Japanese advertizing venue of the time. Very Good. hardcover books
89757CANDY - JAPAN A COLLECTION OF 560 CANDY WRAPPERS AND LABELS AND 55 DECORATED BOXES EARLY 20TH CENTURY. The wrappers and labels range from small 2.5 x 3 cm to large 32 x 45 cm although the majority are somewhere in the middle. Many are elegantly printed woodblocks employing traditional Japanese botanical motifs while others combine traditional and contemporary design elements with contemporary methods of printing. The boxes have been carefully compressed and along with the wrappers and labels are mounted onto 291 loose leaves of light brown paper 30 x 22.5 cm to one side only. Besides advertising the expected fruit flavored sweets such as orange lemon cherry grape and apple other tastes on offer are chestnut walnut honey lychee and even parsnip. Collected from small candy makers and larger firms located all over Japan. A few of the labels and wrappers show some foxing and/or discoloration but are mostly clean. Printed in clear and saturated colors with occasional flashes of metallic ink the wrappers labels and boxes in this collection still entice and charm. Two of the designs even have the original cellophane wrapper that accompanied each. A collection assembled almost certainly before the war with some wrappers going back to the early 20th century. Mostly from the teens twenties and the thirties. Very unusual and interesting ephemera. 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
26909Softcover. VG. Ill. wraps. 95 pp. 67 color plates. Text in Japanese and English. Includes biographical documentation of the 14 artists many luscious color plates and and essay by Yoko Imai. paperback books
199031995Tokyo: Japan Society 1990. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket else as new. 127 pp. Illus. with 42 color & b/w reproductions b/w drawings. 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name at the Japan Society Gallery in 1990. Limited to 2000 copies. Essays plus detailed discussions of 42 objects. Japan Society hardcover books
196989030Tokyo: Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association 1969. Paperback. Very Good. illustrated a few in color 72p. Softcover in original flapped wrapper. 29cm. Cover title: Modern Decorative Arts of Japan. Published in connection with their annual exhibition. <br/><br/> Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association paperback books
1971213341971. Softcover. VG- cover lightly worn stamp inside front cover. White wraps. Appx. 200 pp. 44 color 156 bw plates. Text in Japanese Spanish and English. paperback books
16646Photo Album Education Co-educational Primary School in Tokyo. Three-Wood Common Elementary School1941 during World War 2. Album of Gelatin silver print photos. Original textured paper wrapper. Album opens right to left. 6.9 x 9.75 in. Album cover is dated "March of the 15th year of the Showa Dynasty" in Japanese. 7 photographs measuring 4.5 x 6 in. Each class photo includes names of sitters printed on rice paper in Japanese. <br/><br/>Of note in the 6 class photographs of school children and faculty are the mix of men and women as teachers and the mix of girls and boys as students. In the first image of the entire school boys and girls are lined up next to each other although they stand in rows of their own single-gender classes. Two class photos have additional small portraits of students who were absent for picture day. In Japan at this time education was not compulsory beyond primary school but childhood was regarded as an important time to foster learning growth and intellectual curiosity for both boys and girls. Very good condition. unknown books
192850317Tokyo: The Japan Advertiser 1928. First edition. Very good/Very good. Tokyo: The Japan Advertiser 1928. First edition. Many sepia photos also an original woodblock print of Himeji Castle by Hiroshi Yosida tipped in. 179 pp. . Folio. Eggplant silk Japanese style binding with silk ties and a large very colorful phoenix-like bird on the front cover. Very slight fading at top and bottom board edges where unprotected by dust wrapper or folding cover else in wonderful condition - vibrant; dust wrapper is mildly edge-frayed along top; folding protective case is splitting at folds and generally quite worn. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. The Japan Advertiser unknown books
1928897801928. JAPAN ADVERTISER. ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOURTH EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Tokyo: Benjamin Fleisher 1928. Folio-size purple cloth-covered boards with rooster decoration bound Japanese-style; xvi 179pp. With an original print by Hiroshi Yoshida opposite p.58. The nicest example we have seen bright in the original edgeworn dustwrapper and clasped chitsu cloth covered case with original printed paper title label. Extraordinary in this condition. unknown books
