[Kyoto?]: Japan Tourist Bureau, [1930]. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [4],149pp.; nine leaves of plates including three color plates tipped in. Jacket toned and rather soiled, small closed tears and chips at extremities, some spotting to cloth sizing along margins, else a Very Good copy overall. Date of..... More

Tokyo: Brain Trust, Inc., 2003. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x1.5cm); 150pp, including explanatory maps and chronology. Ninety-eight color reproductions of works in the exhibition, with additional B&W documentary photographs. Nearly entirely in Japanese. Illustrated card covers with full extension French flaps. Covers are clean and crisp, with very faint waving to..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on title page with inscription "To Professor Gould" with the author's name following in Japanese letters. Octavo; [xv], 269pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with bronze and gilt..... More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 490pp, including index. Four maps printed within text. Ocean blue linen with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Spine darkened; some nibbling (?) at spine foot; minimal wear at spine crown. Panel corners and edges politely worn. Textblock unmarred..... More

Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2006. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, this copy numbered 1305 within publisher's blindstamp on title page. 12mo. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket. Turquoise wraps. Text in English. Very light edgewear to corners of jacket and wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Basis for the..... More

Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1904. First Edition. Slim octavo; vii,[1],127pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock a bit shaken in binding, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Clarence N. McHose to front pastedown, neat contemporary manuscript annotations to final leaf of illustrations..... More

Tokyo: Japan Foreign Trade Federation, 1945. [Printed June 15 & 20, 1945 via Japanese text on copyright.] First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream pictorial cloth embossed in black and red; [4],239pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographic illus., maps and line drawings throughout text. Text in English. Ex-Library of Congress..... More

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x5cm); lii, including intro., chronology, and bibliography + 605pp, including 10pp of artists' signature seals and index. Thirty-seven reproductions on 31 plates; three in color; all present. Plates are printed on solid tissue stock, itself tipped onto leaves of laid..... More

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981. Second Printing. Signed by the author on half title without dedication but with inscription "Louise Court (with happy recollections of your memorable one-liners on Momoyama pots) 1983." Quarto (12" x 8.5"); xi, 428pp. Photo-illustrations throughout. Photographic dust jacket over plum cloth boards with burnt..... More

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1992. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's textured paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [8],160pp. Textblock a shade toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy with publisher's promotional literature still laid in. Bookplate signed by the author also laid in..... More

Tokyo: Sophia University, 1961. First Edition. Small quarto; publisher's silk cloth, gilt pictorial element mounted to upper cover, cream printed dust jacket; mixed pagination; forty leaves of half-tone photographs. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners rather bumped, else Very Good overall. Monograph on the various types and care..... More

Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 199pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, old price sticker to rear cover, else Very Good and sound overall. Splendid catalog featuring dozens of full-page, full-color reproductions of the 18th century Japanese..... More