Tokyo, Japan: Nigensha, 1982. First Edition. Slim folio (37cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket and cardboard slipcase; 105pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light edge wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, corners nudged, slipcase a bit scuffed, else Very Good and sound. Title page and chronology in English..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm), [x], 275pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£20.00). Boards full bound in bright red paper with black stamping on spine. Black endsheets. Jacket lightly bumped and creased at margins. Board corners sharp with minor bumping to spine ends..... More

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. Third Printing. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; illustrated boards; 222pp. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with a few nicks and short closed tears; general scuffing. Binding sound; gift inscription to preliminaries; else unmarked. Rampo, whose pen name is a rendering of Edgar Allan..... More

Suzuka, Japan: n.d., [ca. 1940-1960]. Nineteen original hand-stenciled designs (ca 48x35cm); thirteen examples with rubber-stamp from two different craft shops, the remaining six unattributed. Light wear and soil, else a Very Good to Near Fine collection. Colorful multi-decade sampling of designs for the Japanese casual summertime cotton kimono known..... More

Tokio [Tokyo]: [s.i.], 1908. First Separate Edition, originally published in "Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun" in the same year. Octavo; printed wraps; 8pp. [English text] + [18]pp. [Japanese text]. Frontis portrait of Townsend Harris; errata slip. Light wear; a few minor nicks; smudging; still Very Good. An olive branch of..... More

London: The Folio Society, 2023. First Folio Society Edition, first printing. Large octavo; black cloth boards stamped in blue and gilt; illustrated endpapers; 671pp. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Full-page color illustrations. Mild shelfwear to slipcase; boards tight in binding and pages unmarked; Near Fine. More

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978. First Edition. Signed by Hiratsuka at front free endpaper. Folio. 202 pp. 236 plates; first three fold-outs; some color; complete. With single sheet reproduction of a Hiratsuka print in publisher's folder; colophon inserted. Text in Japanese with list of plates in Japanese and English. Publisher's white cloth..... More

[Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co., 2004.] First Edition. Quarto (30cm.); publisher's boards in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 165pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear and light dust-soil to jacket, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the photographer on half title page. Bilingual text in Japanese and English..... More

Cambridge: University Press, 1959. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xlix,[1],281pp.; three leaves of maps, including one folding. Light shelf wear, spine lightly soiled and toned, partly-redacted ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as the publisher's "Oriental Publications" No. 3. More

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co., 1975. First Edition. Folio (34cm); unpaginated. Black and white photographs of various U.S. locales throughout. Light blue boards stamped in white and bronze with black cloth spine lettered in silver; housed in publisher's black slipcase. Comes with publisher's original shipping box. Boards scuffed and smudged; binding..... More

Tokyo: [s.i.], 1937. Limited edition of 100 copies. Octavo; string-tied wraps; [8], 5, [1]pp. Two photographs with tissue guards. Light wear and toning to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked. One of a series of translations and summaries into French of Noh plays, a classical Japanese dance-drama dating back..... More

Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company, 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo (15.5 cm); publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 192,[3]pp.; brief illus., sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers, small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text, textblock a bit browned and foxed, else Very Good, bright and..... More

Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1992. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's card wrappers in white printed dust jacket; [36]pp.; black and white and color photographs. Very light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. An uncommon catalog to accompany this group show. More