2004 Defense of Japan.
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
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: Department of Education. 1934- 1938. 4 volumes: Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education for the Third Statistical Year of Showa (1928-1929), 541pp; Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education for the Fourth Statistical Year of Showa (1929-1930), 576pp; Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of..... More
Tokyo: Department of Education. Showa 2. 1927. 4 charts, 2 folding, 2 coloured, 424pp, library stamps and cancellation, gilt library stamp upper cover, minor wear cloth covered limp boards. Good copy. A mine of information for anyone interested in educational or religious affairs in Japan in the early 1920s. Includes..... More
London. Cassell. 1898. First edition. Black and white illustrations, 374pp + 15 page publisher's list at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, index, rear gutter split, some foxing on endpapers and edges, cloth a trifle rubbed in places, corners lightly bumped but overall a very good copy in dark grey cloth..... More
New York. Weatherhill/Heibonsha. 1977. Black and white and colour plates including a fold-out plate, 166pp, prior owner's bookplate tipped in upper and lower endpaper, protected price clipped dustjacket with lightly sunned spine, good hardback copy. 23.6 x 18.5cm. "This book introduces the reader to the fascinating and often dramatic art..... More
Dee Publications. Black and white line illustrations, unpaginated, very good in paperback. 30 x 20.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 164539. More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1967. x + 474pp, index, binding trifle marked, one corner bumped, name and date front free endpaper, otherwise good. The third volume in a series of six published for the Conference on Modern Japan. Articles include: Status Changes in Hamlet Structure Accompanying Modernization - Erwin H...... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2012. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 296pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyoso) of Jiu and Tensho Kotai..... More
Canberra. A.N.U. Press. 1981. Tables, xii + 447pp, index, good copy in marked dustjacket. Papers include: Family systems in Australia and Japan - Yuriko Kitaoji; Japan's Foreign Policy and Attitudes to the Outside World 1868-1945 - Junji Banno; The Australian and Japanese Constitutions - Yasuhiro Okudaira. When referring to this..... More
Paris. Colmet Daage. 1912. Illustrated with 46 photographic reproductions in the text, list of netsuke signatures at the rear. Original wrappers, spine has been re-enforced, some corners bent, some chips to edges, still a very good copy. 27.5 x 19cm. An auction held in June 1912 with 721 lots, including..... More
Rutland. Tuttle. 1982. Reprint. 128pp, paperback, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 68307. More
London. Collins & Brown. 1991. Colour photographic plates, 224pp, glossary, reading list, index, a good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. 26.3 x 26.3cm. This work discusses why Japanese design is pre-eminent throughout the modern world and how Japanese design combines respect for tradition with an awareness of the needs of..... More
Kyoto. 知恩院 [Chion-in]. 1982. Colour and black and white illustrations, 250pp, text in Japanese with some English, extremities little worn, a good paperback copy. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Kyoto National Museum. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154680. More
Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 1981. Black and white illustrations, 38pp, little wear and creasing to stapled wrappers, otherwise good, tall quarto. The exhibition was organised by Jackie Menzies. When referring to this item please quote stockid 151939. More
大阪. [Osaka]. 株式会社大阪毎日新聞社. [Kabushiki Kaisha Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha]. Showa 17 [ 1942]. Well illustrated with many striking black and white photographic illustrations throughout, small map of Singapore in text, 23pp, 36.5 x 26cm. Original pictorial stapled wrappers. Evenly browned throughout. A good copy Focussing on the fall of Singapore this..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1987. Colour frontispiece, xviii + 372pp, appendix, notes, index, covers trifle shelf worn, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180132. More
New York. Weatherhill. 1995. Map, colour and black and white plates, line illustrations, ix + 276pp, appendix, index, very good copy in dustjacket with sunned spine. 27 x 19.5cm. A study of the architecture and engineering of the Meiji period (1968-1912) in Japan. When referring to this item please quote..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1992. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxi + 413pp, abbreviations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, list of interviews, index, edges lightly foxed, mark upper edge, still a good paperback copy. "Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode..... More
London. Sotheby & Co., 1972. Black and white illustrations, unpaginated, a few prices realised in ink, newspapers clippings relating to this auction - the first Sotheby's auction devoted to Japanese books and carbon copy of invoice for two items purchased in the sale loosely inserted, lightly creased, shelf wear, good..... More
Canberra. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 1997. xxx + 506pp, indices, appendices, paperback, spine a little faded and creased, very good copy. "The archival documents published for the first time in this volume include Cabinet decisions and submissions, ministerial and departmental correspondence, diplomatic notes, records of conversation, political reports..... More
Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press. 1989. x + 226pp, bibliography, index, bookplate front free endpaper, very good in dustjacket. Examines the role of the Japanese business community in helping the nation solve an unprecedented comination of economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s: chronic trade deficits, world depression..... More
Livorno. Opera Museo Stibbert, Firenze. 2008. Beautiful colour illustrations, 204pp, bibliography, very good paperback copy. 24 x 22.4cm. Text in English and Italian. When referring to this item please quote stockid 212706. More
London. Routledge. 1995. vii + 279pp, appendix, bibliography, index, inscription by the author to historian Dr J. Caiger, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. A unique and pioneering study of the first fifteen years of the Imperial Japanese Diet, this book is the first detailed study of..... More
Canberra. Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU. 1972. Map, x + 87pp, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 5932. More