Bibliotheca Japonica.
Paris. Ernest Leroux. (Repr. Martino Fine Books, USA). 1912-, octavo, original cloth, Title label., pp.xii,762 When referring to this item please quote stockid 88426. More
Paris. Ernest Leroux. (Repr. Martino Fine Books, USA). 1912-, octavo, original cloth, Title label., pp.xii,762 When referring to this item please quote stockid 88426. More
New York. Columbia University Press. 1971. Reprint. xiii + 275pp, index, very good hardback copy. This book is an examination of the campaign strategy of a Japanese politician, Sato Bunsei. The author spent a year and a half living in the candidate's home, participating in campaign strategy meetings, visiting innumerable..... More
第一徴兵保険他. [Daiichi Chōhei Hoken and others]. (Circa 1940). Charming group of seven pieces of Japanese insurance ephemera. Each of the six brochures and one booklet (18 pages) are very attractively presented with coloured covers, colour and black and white illustrations, charts, sizes vary from 15.5 x 9.5cm to 18.2 x...... More
東京. [Tokyo]. 大日本回教協會. [Dainihon Kaikyō Kyōkai]. Showa14 [ 1939]. 22 x 15.2cm, 57pp, original wrappers and first and last leaves foxed with some staining from rusted staples, otherwise clean. Good copy. Scarce. This fascinating 1939 publication from the Greater Japan Islamic Association (大日本回教協会) outlines trade relations between Japan and Islamic..... More
New York. Vintage Books. 1985. Reprint. Black and white line illustrations, monotone photographic illustrations, xix + 347pp, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, page edges starting to brown, a good paperback copy. 21 x 21 cm. "Geisha combines ethnography with a view from the inside. Dalby is a young American anthropologist fluent..... More
Berkeley. Stone Bridge Press. 2009. First edition. Map, black and white line illustrations, 396pp, damaged lower cover that spans 10 pages through an indent and slight rips. Does not obscure text. "Tracing the lives of its characters through the late 20th century to present, from Paris to Kyoto to California..... More
New Haven. Yale. 1981. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 355pp, notes, bibliography, index, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, sunned dustjacket reverse foxed, very good hardback copy. "A sensitive critical biography, interlaced with extracts from [Ichiyo's] diary, and [Danly's] translation of nine representative stories, several appearing in..... More
New York. Stokes. 1937. Black and white photographic plates, xii + 266pp, index, stamp of a prior owner front free endpaper and edges, occasional foxing, very good in slightly chipped dustjacket. Articles on his pre-WWII travels in China, Japan and Hawaii, originally published in the New York Sun, by raconteur..... More
London. HMSO. 1972. Colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, 15pp, oblong octavo paperback patchily faded. Victoria & Albert Museum. An overview of ehon, old Japanese illustrated books. When referring to this item please quote stockid 45328. More
Los Angeles. Dawson's. 1967. Back and white photographic illustrations, 191pp + index, very good copy. A bound edition of an important series of 6 catalogues issued by Dawsons of Los Angeles in the 1960s. This bound edition includes indices to the artists and authors, subjects and titles of the printed..... More
Tokyo. The Maruzen Company. 1949. vii + 256pp, appendices, ex-library copy, considerable library markings endpapers, library stamp three prelims, pencil annotation one prelim, edges browned, binding worn and marked, library marking spine, tear at head of spine with some loss, contents sound, a reading copy. Chapters cover various aspects of..... More
Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1917. Folding map, colour frontis, 286pp, appendices, grey cloth-covered boards trifle marked, protective dustjacket, octavo, small bookseller's label front pastedown, a good, generally clean copy. A reproduction of Yotsuya Kwaidan told by the famous story-teller Shunkintei Ryuo. The story is an example of a 'true' Japanese ghost story..... More
Paris. Collège De France, Institut Des Hautes Études Japonaises. 2009. 74pp, a very good paperback copy. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156870. More
Tours. 1842. Troisieme Edition. Engraved frontispiece and title pages and two other full page tissue guarded engravings, (6) + 308pp, marbled edges and endpapers, upper edge browned, foxed throughout, first few leaves soiled, upper edge water stained throughout (not affecting text), upper hinge split, quarter morocco binding worn particularly at..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2023. Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 295pp, index. Paperback. New. "This collection of essays on the music of migrant minorities in and from Japan examines the central role music plays in the ongoing adjustment, conciliation and transformation of newcomers and "hosts" alike. It is the..... More
No Information. 九潜館. [Kyūsenkan]. Keio 4 [ 1868]. Translated by Suzuki Tadakazu. Complete in three volumes. Woodblock printed. Volume I: 53 double folded feaves; Volume II: 41 double folded leaves; Volume III: 47 double folded leaves, 24.5 x 17.6 cm, four hole stab binding. Lacks title labels on upper covers..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1973. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 597pp, appendices, bibliography, index, neat stain from an old sticker front free endpaper, insect damaged and slightly torn dustjacket, now protected, felt pen mark outer edge, still a good copy. This volume explores the psychological features of..... More
No place of publication. Japan Times. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, tables and charts, xvi + 340pp, edges and endpapers trifle stained, paperback covers somewhat worn and soiled. An examination of "International Military Situation," "National Defense Policy," "Present Conditions and Problems of the National Defense of Japan" and "The..... More
Inter Group. 2003. Folding map and chart, ix + 538pp, very good paperback copy. Originally published by Japan Defense Agency in August 2003, this edition translated into English by Inter Group Corporation. When referring to this item please quote stockid 136614. More
Folding chart and map, black and white photographic illustrations, 607pp, very good copy in paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 136615. More
London. Methuen. 1971. Second edition. xviii + 332pp, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket little torn but now protected. When referring to this item please quote stockid 62260. More
[Tokyo]. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. (circa 大正十 1921). 87pp, occasional foxing and soiling on covers, otherwise very good in wrappers. Text in Japanese. 22.4 x 15. Early 20th century Japanese postage rates for foreign parcels. Published as Notice number 2431 issued by the 遞信省 "Ministry of Communications" in December 大正十年 (1921) to..... More
Tokyo. Department of Communications, Tokio.遞信省通信局. 1913- 1914. Two bilingual early 20th century postal agreements between the Imperial Postal Administration of Japan and the United States, Japan and Dominion of Canada. 20 + 11pp. Wrappers a little browned and discoloured in places, a little wear with loss on paper spine. Very..... More
Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治三十九 1906. Bilingual (English and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Minister of State for Communications of Empire of Japan, 山縣 伊三郎 [Yamagata Isaburō], and the Postmaster General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Austin Chapman. 18 + 11pp, in wrappers, including 16 articles..... More
Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治四十 1907. Bilingual (English and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Minister of State for Communications of Empire of Japan, 山縣 伊三郎 [Yamagata Isaburō], and the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sydney Buxton. 22 + 14pp, in..... More