[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
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
Los Angeles: George J. Doizaki Gallery and Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x2cm); 185pp, including photographer lists and bibliography. Reproductions of 78 photographs by 31 different photographers. Text presented bilingually in Japanese and English on facing pages. Unclipped rose red dust jacket, with slight..... 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
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Frooman retaining original price ($4.50); xi,[3],274pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall. World War II memoir of the future Governor..... More
Tokyo: Brain Trust, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Quarto (27.5x22.5x1.5cm); 161pp, including chronology and biographies. Seventy-three color reproductions of works in the exhibition, with additional B&W documentary photographs. Nearly entirely in Japanese. Illustrated card wrappers. Spine uncreased and uncracked. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the Japanese..... 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
Tokyo: Japan Deep Sea Trawlers Association, 1972-1976. First Editions. Two volumes; large folios (36.5cm.); Vol. I bound in black leatherette-backed paper-covered boards lettered in gilt, Vol. II in grey simulated cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in gilt; [6],v,[1],145; [6],iv,188pp.; chiefly color photographs and maps. A hint of soil to boards, else..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1969. Early Printing. Signed by both authors without inscription on half title. Octavo; xi, 272pp. Map endpapers. Printed dust jacket over red and black boards with silver lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a good-sized dampstain to back panel with some loss to blurb text..... 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
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Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House / The Japan Camera and Optical Instruments Inspection and Testing Institute, 1991. First Thus. Quarto. 231 pp. Color frontispiece; black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Publisher's supplement laid in. Dust jacket gently..... 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
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xii,284pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Corners a bit bumped, slight curve to front board, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. More
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Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2002. First English Language Edition. Octavo; xiv, 240pp. Illustrated dust jacket over illustrated boards. Jacket lightly bumped at top corners, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Matching light bumps to boards. Small spot to page edges at fore-edge, not encroaching into margins. Binding is..... 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
New York: Sotheby's Publications / Harper & Row, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Two quarto volumes. 1131 pp. Illustrations throughout, some color. Illustrated dust jackets. Publisher's speckled boards stamped in dark brown. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase. Light edgewear to jackets and boards. Bindings are sound and pages unmarked. Light..... More
Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1993. First Edition. Quarto (30x23x1cm); 130pp, including chronology and bibliography. Twenty-four color full-page plates with many additional background, reference, and documentary images in B&W. Text in parallel Japanese and English throughout. Photographic card covers with deep French flaps. Covers clean and crisp; card spine uncreased..... More
Tokyo: San Ko Sha, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (22.5x16x2cm); [7] + iii + 272pp + 2pp of publisher's advertising. Tables of katakana and hiragana ideographs throughout, though instruction itself is entirely in English. Salmon dustjacket printed in black. Boards in dark khaki paper backed with marigold spine, lettered in gilt..... More
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Windsor, VT: Cornish Colony Museum, 2007. First Edition. Small quarto. 30 pp. Color illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Craft in gold on title page, numbered 202 of 350 copies. Museum catalog for an exhibition that ran from December 2006 to March 2007. No copies in retail or held institutionally..... More
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Tokyo: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by The Shimbi Shoin, 1932. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 626. Octavo; publisher's decorative silk bound in the Japanese style, front cover lettered in black, top edge gilt, in original silk chemise with printed..... 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
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N.p.: Privately Printed, 1949, 1953, 1957. First Editions. Japanese Sculpture volume signed and dated by translator Yuko Nonomura on full title. Octavos; 56pp, 94pp; 130pp. Photos throughout. In beige, pink, and red cloth boards with black lettering. Plain brown paper dust jackets over reach, with "Sample Page" stamped at top..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1990. Stated First Edition. Quarto (32.5x37x3cm); 232pp, including glossary, artist biographies and index, screen index, and bibliographies. Illustrated with 7 B&W documentary photographs, 124 full-color images including the 37 catalogued screens, and 13 gatefold screen reproductions. Pictorial dustjacket. Lacquer-red spine stamping on marigold cloth. Dustjacket..... More
[Okinawa]: s.i., 1947. First Edition. Small oblong quarto; publisher's tan pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in blue; 68pp.; photographs and illus. throughout. A hint of wear from handling and very faint crease at bottom front corner, else Very Good to Near Fine. Pictorial guide to the Ryukyus Islands..... More
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998. First Edition (published simultaneously with First Edition in cloth). Quarto (31x29x3.5cm); 480pp, including bibliography and index. Approximately 400 color images, including the 281 catalogued items. Pictorial card wraps with generous French flaps. Catalog of the 1998-99 exhibit at the National Gallery of..... More