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

Yokohama. Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant. 1946. Colour and black and white full page plates, 36 pages on double leaves, bound in oblong Japanese paper covered boards with ties, 28 x 39 cm. Upper cover lifting, a little minor insect damage paper covered boards, light soiling title page, mild crease..... More

上海.[Shanghai]. 三益社.[Mimasusha]. 昭和十三[ 1938]. Coloured folding map China as far north as Hebei Province, south to Hong Kong, west to Sichuan and Guizhou Provinces, and corresponding coastal regions. Some folding black and white plates including one of the Bund looking north. 4 full page colour plates, black and white photographic..... 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