東京. [Tokyo]. 博文館. [Hakubunkan]. Showa 8[ 1933]. Six colour card cutout sheets, folded as issued, 39 x 27cm, original wrapper with instructions (28 x 21cm). Paper wrapper chipped and torn with a little loss now neatly repaired with washi. Instructions are complete and the card sheets are in very good..... More

滿洲國國務院國都建設局.[Manshūkoku Kokumuin Kokuto Kensetsukyoku]. 康徳4年[ 1937]. Fourth Edition. Large folding double sided single sheet printed on both sides, folded in 12 panels. One side features a handsome colour birds-eye view of Shinkyo with a photographic panorama showing construction in progress immediately below, on the reverse a coloured plan, text and..... 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]. 同盟通信社. [Domei Tsushinsha]. Showa 14 [ 1939]. Handbill with black and white photographic illustration with accompanying text, 28.5 x 38.7cm. Sheet evenly browned, a few small closed tears in the margins of the image, corners a little creased and chipped. This handbill is a brief news report of..... More

Melbourne. Stillwell & Stephens. 1939. 11pp. Leaves little foxed, original stapled wrappers trifle worn with staples little rusted, overall a very good copy. 21.5 x 14cm. A short self-published work by Dr Rupert W. Hornabrook, principally of note for his work in anaesthesia, expounding his views on supposed sabre-rattling towards..... More

[Japan]. 1938 - 1942. Thirty-seven black and white photographs laid down in a Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd album with fifteen black and white photographs loosely inserted (sizes vary between 5 x 5.8cm to 16.5 x 11.3cm), a number of photographs are missing, Japanese captions neatly written on leaves, 22.5..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 伊林書店. [Ibayashi Shoten]. 昭和14 [ 1939]. Colour printed folding map, 78 X 109cm, minor damage original envelope (27.5 x 20cm). Very good copy. This map offers comprehensive information on northern China, Manchuria, the Soviet Union and Hokkaido, including Kuril Islands under the Japanese control. It also includes the..... More

大阪. [Osaka]. 大阪毎日新聞社. [Ōsaka Mainichi Shimbunsha], Showa 8 [ 1933]. Colour folding map, 78 x 53.5 cm, light creasing, repaired tear in upper top right margin not affecting the image, tiny separation at one fold and along upper right fold line, light foxing to two outer panels but only one..... More

大阪. [Osaka]. 大阪毎日新聞社. [Ōsaka Mainichi Shimbunsha], Showa 8 [ 1933]. Colour folding map, 78 x 53.5cm. edges slightly discoloured, small closed tears and holes at folding points now neatly repaired with archival washi on the verso. A detailed and fascinating map issued by the Japanese newspaper Osaka Mainichi Shimbun (大阪毎日新聞)..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 主婦の友社. [Shufunotomo-sha]. Showa 8 [ 1933]. Colour print of Emperor Showa and his family, 38 x 48cm. Two vertical folds, edges a trifle worn, otherwise very good. This colour portrait print of the Emperor Showa and his family was published in 1933 as a January issue supplement of..... More

(Circa 1933). Map in text with outline colour, graphs, black and white mainly photographic illustrations, 16pp, original pictorial wrappers. Very good copy. 18.9 x 12.8cm. This booklet argues the importance of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia for Japan and its people as a new frontier for migration and development. It points..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 大日本雄辯會講談社 [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Showa10 [ 1935]. Atlas consisting of ten pictorial colour maps, one folding and nine full page, [20pp], coloured pictorial wrappers soiled and worn at the spine and edges, staples rusted. While the wrappers are very used, the maps are all in very good condition..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 東京日日新聞. [Tōkyō Nichinichi Shinbun]. Showa 6 [ 1931]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 55 x 41cm, [4]pp newspaper which has been folded in four at some time and the creases can still be seen. Some occasional soiling and spotting, light even browning, good copy. This extra edition of..... More