Nepal. circa 2022. Original painting on traditional handmade paper, 24.5 x 37.2 cms (sheet), signed lower right, in very good condition. Purchased from a women's co-operative in Nepal in 2022 Sudhira Karna is a prominent and highly regarded master artisan associated with the Janakpur Women's Development Centre (JWDC) in Nepal..... More

London. Vintage. 2024. 343pp. Paperback. New. "Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Marjane Satrapi lived through the Iranian..... More

London. Islamic Arts Foundation. Vol 2, No 3, Autumn, 1984. Colour and black and white photographic and line illustrations, 76pp, some minor wear to extremities, quarto, wrappers. Articles in this issue of Arts & the Islamic World include 'Bihzad and Herat Renaissance' - Dr Mulk Raj Anand; 'A Niche for..... More

Dublin. P. Byrne and W. Jones, 1793. [First Thus]. [xvi] + 643 pp, full mottled calf, maroon gilt lettered title label, gilt ruled spine, 21.7 x 13.4 cms, lacking the front free endpaper, inner hinge starting but firm, very occasional toning and marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, but a...... More

大阪. [Osaka]. 株式會社日表協會. [Kabushiki Kaisha Hiomote Kyōkai]. Showa 18 [ 1943]. Daily calendar for 1944, stapled firmly to the colour illustrated backing board (29.8 × 14 cm), the calendar measures 9 x 6cm. The calendar is complete, although the months of April, May and June have been bound in upside..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 大日本雄弁会講談社. [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Showa 7 [ 1932]. Attractive colour folding bird's-eye view map with black and white photographic illustrations on the reverse. 39 x 53.5cm. Very good condition. This colourful bird’s-eye view map of Manchuria by Ito Kikuzo, (1901–1985) a popular graphic artist in the early Showa..... More

[Japan]: Taisho 3 [ 1914]. Folding colour map, 54.3 x 39cm, a few tiny holes at folds. A very good copy. This colourful pictorial map of Shikoku traces the pilgrimage route linking eighty-eight Buddhist temples, giving distances between temples and from major cities in Honshu and Shikoku. Each temple is..... More

London. Faber & Faber. 2026. Translated by Michael Emmerich. 186pp. Paperback. New. "An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside. Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 実業之日本社. [Jitsugyō no Nihonsha]. Taisho 5 [ 1916]. Colour sugoroku game sheet, 54.5 x 78.3cm, paper is quite fragile with prior and recent repairs to folds and edges on the reverse, the playing pieces have been clipped from the margin. A bright striking sugoroku. This colourful sugoroku was..... More

Collingwood. Black Inc., 2022. Maps, black & white photographic illustrations, 277pp, index. Paperback. New. "India - Over 5,000 years of wonderfully colossal and chaotic history. From the earliest humans and the Harappan civilisation to Muslim invaders, the Great Mughals, British rule, the country's struggle for autonomy and present-day hopes and..... More

横浜. [Yokohama]. 内田勇太郎. [Uchida Yutaro]. Showa 16 [ 1941]. Part I. Colour and black and white illustrations, 66 panels, accordion style binding with title label on upper cover, 21.5 x 15cm. Lower endpaper creased, repairs along fold where covers join the contents, cloth covered boards lightly faded in a few..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 田中宋栄堂. [Tanaka Soeido]. Showa 18 [ 1943]. 12pp, 21 x 29.5cm, map on colour card cover, cord hanger, lower cover and inside covers a little foxed, paper evenly browned. A good copy of a scarce ephemeral item, complete and unused. This monthly calendar for 1943 conveys a sense..... More

[Manchukuo]. 外山卯三郎. [Toyama Usaburō]. Collection of nine items of ephemera relating to the making of Daichi no soshoku (大地の装飾), a Japanese film promoting Japanese policies in Manchuria. The collection includes four business cards 9 × 5.5 cm, two telegrams 21.2 × 15 cm, a customs duty receipt 20 × 15.3..... More