Shanghai. 南成都路正大橡皮印刷公司.Tsen Dah Printing Co., [circa 1930]. Colour poster showing a beautiful young woman elegantly dressed in winter clothing in an outdoor setting, advertising slogan in Chinese calligraphy upper right corner, artist's signature and chop printed along the left lower edge, text in traditional Chinese along upper edge. Sheet measures..... More

Tokyo. Tokyo Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Showa 5 [ 1930]. Travel brochure, 12 panels, black and white photographic illustrations, colour map showing distrances from Kamakura one panel, places of interest, colour pictorial cover. Single sheet printed both sides, 9 x 20cm when folded, 44 x 20cm when unfolded, some light wear..... More

Goteborg. Elanders Boktryckeri. 1929. Maps, black and white line and photographic illustrations, xix + 515pp. Original wrappers little browned particularly on spine with a few chips, largely unopened. Neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. A good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 157299... More

広島. [Hiroshima]. 呉海兵団. [Kure Kaiheidan]. Showa 12 [ 1937]. 35 black and white photographic plates, printed single sided, each with captioned tissue guard, last 12 pages are a list of names, pictorial embossed upper cloth cover, 2 hole binding with modern cord ties. 19 x 28.5cm. Edges of last two..... More

London. The Carey Press, [ 1919]. 1st Edition. Sepia toned portrait frontispiece and 5 photographic illustrations in the text. 128pp. Original red cloth covered boards with gilt dragon device stamped on the front cover. Spine faintly sunned with the subject name written neatly in ink, small bump to lower edge..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 内務省社会局保険部. [Naimu-shō Shakai-kyoku Hoken-bu]. (Circa 1925). Large coloured lithographed poster, 108 x 79cm. Poster has been folded and is now creased but still very striking. Scarce. This Japanese government poster was published to raise awareness for the prevention of tuberculosis. It bears the campaign slogan "Train your body!"..... More

大日本雄辯會講談社 [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Taishō 8 [ 1919]. Colour folding sugoroku, or Japanese board game. Pin holes at corners, worn along the folds with a number of small holes particularly along central fold, some browning and soiling. Neat tape repairs on reverse. 55 x 78.5cm. Published as a supplement to..... More

男體社. Showa 3 [ 1928]. Handsome coloured bird's-eye folding map size, map measures 18 x 79cm; folds into 19 x 11cm colourful card folder. Sightseeing information and photographic illustrations are printed on the reverse in blue ink. A little minor wear at edges otherwise very good. This delightful folding map..... More

Leiden. E.J. Brill. 1919. 33pp, edges of leaves browned but text clean, signature of previous owner on title page, wrappers browned around edges, upper wrapper slightly detached and creased, lower wrapper edge bent, small section of head of spine worn with loss. Text in Dutch. When referring to this item..... More

London. Foulis. 1920. 1st thus. Tipped-in coloured frontispiece illustration by Norman H, Harvey and black & white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated papered boards, lacks the lower half of the back strip and with discolouration of tape residue to the spine. Prior owner name on the the front free endpaper dated..... More

Tokyo. 大日本帝國陸地測量部. 昭和 14 [ 1939]. Large colour folding Japanese WWII map. Scale 1:5,000,000 featuring Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Karafuto Eastern China, parts of French Indochina and the Northern Philippines (US colony) in detail. Legend includes territorial boundaries (national and regional) and shows some borders as unclear (i.e. Taiwan and bordering..... More

Shanghai. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1935. x + 299pp, endpapers faintly browned, royal blue covered boards titles stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. The front pastedown has some rippling, the original dust wrapper has a slightly sunned spine but a lovely clean, tight and firm copy. This book..... More

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1929. Colour frontis, black and white illustrations, 358pp, upper hinge starting, attractive indigo patterned boards trifle browned. Good copy. Chapter headings include: Origins and Early Forms; Kagura; Matsuri and Street Plays; Dengaku and other Antecedents of Noh; Sarugaku and Noh; Shugen, Yurei and Seirei Noh; Genzai..... More