1st Edition. Frontispiece photogravure engraving by Heliog Duchardin with tissue guard, ix + 298pp with numerous illustrations and plates with numbered tissue-guards. Heavy card embossed covers, titled in gilt, spine re-enforced with buckram, endpapers browned, internally clean and firm. Contains an index of artists and a glossary of buddhist terms..... More

Kyoto: 1892. With delicate colour woodblocks by Tanaka Ikka　田中一華, Ichimi Renjō　一見連城, Hasegawa Gyokujun　長谷川玉純, Mori Yūzan　森雄山, Kamisaka Sekka　神坂雪佳, Tanaka Gekkō　田中月耕, Uemura Shōen　上村松園, Nakai Baien　中井梅園, Itō Suezō　伊藤季造, Umemura Keizan　梅村景山, Tabata　Kakuzō　田畑鶴造　and Kunii ōyō　國井應陽. [28pp], folded leaves. Original patterned paper wrappers with red ties, lower section of spine creased, lower corner of 9 leaves..... More

Tokyo. 私刊豆本. Showa 17 [1942]. Limited edition of 300 signed copies. 15 folded leaves delightfully illustrated with colour lithographs showing Japanese clocks and other time pieces by well-known artist and author Takeo Takei. Japanese four hole stab string binding, pictorial covers. A little very light wear. Very good. Influential Japanese..... More

Unknown. (Showa 12 [ 1937]). Black and white illustrations, 10 + 8 + 11pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. Paper covered boards with cord ties, paper title label upper cover, corners worn with loss, lower endpaper trifle browned otherwise very good. Contains the poems of a number of land service men..... More