New York: Pantheon Books, Inc., Bollingen Series LXIV, 1958. First Thus, being the second, revised edition of "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture" (Kyoto, 1938). Octavo (24x16.5x4.5cm); xxiv + 478pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Frontispiece + 64 plates + 3 gatefolds + 1 double-spread, all in sepia..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper with rice paper..... More
Paris and Brussels: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire / G. Van Oest, Éditeurs, 1914. First Edition. Quarto (35x27x4cm); 98pp + 47 tipped-in plates printed obverse only, with all tissue guards in place; all guards have imprinted captions; reproductions in sepia, with the exception of the full-color frontispiece. Almost wholly in..... More
Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); xii + 153pp, including artist biographies, orthographical and phonological appendices, and bibliography. The 281 catalogued items are accompanied by approximately the same number of photographs, most in color. Illustrated card wraps. Some slight signs of age to..... More
Paris: Musée d’Orsay and Skira-Flammarion, 2011. First Edition. Small Quarto (22x22x2cm); 223pp, including index. Relentlessly and vividly illustrated in over-luscious color throughout. Entirely in French. Near Fine volume, perused with a very light touch. Nano-signs of edgewear to wrappers; card spine uncreased and uncracked. Textblock unmarred and unmarked... More
New York: Willey Book Co., 1938. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 55pp.; chiefly plates throughout, six (including frontispiece) in color. Some minor chipping and wrinkling to jacket extremities, spine panel quite sunned, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, else..... More
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Boston: Bulfinch Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition (stated). Bookplate signed by Parks loosely laid in at front. Oblong quarto. 128 pp. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in dark green. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some light intermittent spotting..... More
Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Signed and inscribed: "For Ceci[e]lia, with thanks, DL 1979." Quarto (29x22x2cm); xxvi + 150pp, including index. Over 175 B&W documentary photographs and images. Photographic dust jacket. Volume in gray cloth with black spine and front panel stamping. Doublespread endpapers with map of..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (25x19x2.5cm); xvi + 231pp, including bibliography and index. Ten color plates; 67 B&W images. Photographic dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt spine stamping (and a dot, just a dot, of maroon). Both jacket and volume are Near Fine, impeccably clean..... More
New York: Sheridan House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 467 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket edgeworn shallow loss at spine ends and several small nicks and tears along edges. Light edgewear to edges of boards and touch of dustiness..... More