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195232518n.p.: n.p. 1952. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Annotations on rear wrapper else very good. 8 pp. 8vo. n.p. unknown 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
2060a 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 KantÅ 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 KantÅ earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. 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
15854676Venice: I Gioliti 1585. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 103 pp. Bound in old vellum. Discrete former ownership stamp on title. Gutter margin of title reinforced; inconsequential toning otherwise excellent. Rare early edition of this Jesuit letter containing news of missions and activity in Japan from the year 1582 the only edition of 5 printed that year to contain a title-page advertising the famous Japanese embassy of 1584-86. Significantly the work also discusses the embassy the participants and their noble lineage and expresses the hope that the embassy will prove a convincing sign of the Jesuit's spectacular success in Japan p. 7. The present imprint of this edition comprises the first entry in Boscaro's bibliography of printed works related to the embassy. It thus stands at the head of nearly 50 works printed in 1585 alone to record and commemmorate an event that-in addition to providing a public relations coup for the Jesuits-became a watershed moment in cross-cultural exchange between the Orient and the West: "no Japanese emissaries to Europe either before or since aroused comparable interest or enthusiasm" Lach. In the annals of international relations between Europe and Japan in the 16th C it is particularly noteworthy "how the physical presence of the Japanese in Europe stimulated an unexpected number of typographical presentations" Boscaro of which this particular Gioliti edition with the titlepage advertising the embassy-Portata de Novo Dal Giapone Dai Signori Ambasciatori-is the very first. Boscaro notes that there were four other editions of Coehho's letter published in Italy in 1585 around the time the embassy arrived in Venice on June 25 including another by Gioliti but none of these uses the embassy as a way to market itself.The report itself is also a significant document of the embassy's genesis: Coelho composed it in February 1582 the month that the embassy of four Japanese Christian converts departed from Nagasaki. In it he describes the ongoing missionary activity across the country: e.g. in Hirado Amasuka Bungo and especially Funai Oita City the home of a thriving Jesuit college. Presumably the contents of this letter as the title suggests were "brought from Japan by the eminent ambassadors" as the latest news on the Jesuits current success in that faraway land.Though the embassy did not reach Lisbon until August 1584 it eventually was as Coelho had hoped a resounding success: from 1584-86 the four young Japanese nobles were the object of intense curiosity wherever they traveled and they were treated to lavish receptions in Lisbon Madrid Florence Rome Venice and other cities throughout Catholic Europe.OCLC: Cornell NYPL HU and Newberry. Boscaro 1; Alt-Japan 812; Sommervogel II.1267; Cordier 78; Laures 169; Pagès 22; Lach I.2.690. I Gioliti hardcover books
91322n.p. n.d. WWII. Very Good. Small WWII Japanese propaganda broadside. 13 x 10 cm. Chip and tear in bottom margin. Depict two Allied soldiers looking toward the "Philippine Deep' and seeing numerous presumably Allied. ships and planes under attack and sinking. <br/><br/> 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
192044621Yokohama: Japan Cotton Trading Co n.d. ca. 1920. Original illustrated inspection label 15.5x11cm. printed in four colors. Light soil contemporary ink notes to verso blank else Very Good and unused. Label to be affixed to Company-inspected export shipments depicting a gilt raptor flying over several continents and a small village. The Company was founded in 1892 by a conglomeration of twenty-five Osaka spinners and by 1912 cotton spinning would make up half of Japan's industrial output https://www.sojitz.com/history/en/company/nihon-menka/. Japan Cotton Trading Co unknown books
1996326011996. Softcover. VG light bumping to rear corner. Pictorial wraps. 322 pp. 181 color plates. Text in Japanese. paperback books
1939866111939. 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. 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. unknown books
1939866041939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 6. 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. Ken Domon was in charge opf 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. 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
1939866071939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 1. 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. Ken Dômon 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 Shôwa have largely disappeared. The fragile paper is in nice condition overall. unknown 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
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
198635217Tokyo: Japan Resources Association. Very Good. 1986. Hardcover. Text is in English and Japanese. First edition. Fine in a very good light corner bumps and dust soiling small stain on top edge slipcase. . Japan Resources Association hardcover 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
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
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
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
200128705Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Near Fine. 2001. Paperback. 0824824644 . First paperback printing. About fine in illustrated wraps. . University of Hawaii Press paperback books
19941320862Tokyo: Yakuji Nippo Ltd 1994. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 415; VG; blue spine with gilte text; cloth has only slight wear to exterior; mildly rubbed edges; mylar wraps; strong boards; text block shows very light wear to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated;. 1320862. FP New Rockville Stock. Yakuji Nippo, Ltd hardcover books
1961140944N. p.: The Japan P. E. N. Club The Kazui Press 1961. Octavo pp. 98; 8 printed wrappers. New enlarged edition. First published in 1957 this work and its 1964 supplement are divided into five sections: General Classical Literature Classical Theater Modern Literature Juvenile and Folk Literature. "The term 'literature' has been interpreted in the broadest possible sense" as the introduction notes including essays biographies and poetry. Nearly fine copies. #140944 The Japan P. E. N. Club [The Kazui Press 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
4434118. JAPAN. JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. By Edward S. Morse. Publishers announcement. Single printed sheet measuring approx. 7" x 4" with single illustration. A near fine example with only light creasing at the corners and top edge. unknown books
