Japanese Lacquer Art: Modern Masterpieces
New York: Weatherhill/Tankosha, (c. 1982). 1st ed. Hardcover. color illustrations, 298p. Original black cloth. 34cm. More
New York: Weatherhill/Tankosha, (c. 1982). 1st ed. Hardcover. color illustrations, 298p. Original black cloth. 34cm. More
[New York]: n.d. [ca. 1960?]. Hardcover. [4]p. plus 132 leaves of paper samples. Thin, flexible, cloth-covered cover. Tied. Oblong (19 x 9cm.). Light soiling and wear. An appealing small-format paper-sample book. More
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1949. Hardcover. photos, maps (some double-page), index, 6, (1), 160p. Original red boards. Pictorial dj. 18cm. Slightly bowed. Jacket has modest edge-wear and a couple of small chips. Text somewhat browned. More
Tokyo: Nihon Mojinkai Rengo, 1998. Hardcover. photos (some color), 356p. Original ribbed green cloth. 30cm. No Jacket. Japanese text. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1940. Paperback. 2 vols. folding color frontis(in first volume, 99 plates, (a few color, some folding), xv, 156, (4)p. Softcover in wrapper, tied oriental-style with double-leaved pages. 31cm. Original blue cloth-covered pegged portfolio binder (worn and splitting along a couple of the folds..... More
Tokyo: Privately published, 1933. Paperback. folding color frontis, illustrations (some color), xiii, 122p. plus 93 leaves of plates. Original tied wrapper, bound oriental-style (double-leaved). 31cm. Pages lightly browned. Top edge gilt. Dark blue chitsu box (corners and ends of somewhat faded backstrip are chipped and worn. Copy #890 of an..... More
Ginza, Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1941. Paperback. 2 vols. frontis, ills, 151p. text (1st vol.) plus 52 plates (2nd vol.). Tied wrappers in original pegged binder. 31cm. The two volumes virtually as new except a red note in lower right corner of title-page in Vol. I: "H. Woulthat [or is..... More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1856. Fifth thousand. Hardcover. 6 plates (including frontis), 286p. Original blindstamped cloth. 17cm. Spine sloped. Extremities frayed. Lacks front free endpaper. Plates uniformly browned Foxing (light to moderate). More
Philadelphia: S. I. Bell & Co., (c. 1894). Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 608p. Original green decorative cloth. 26 cm. Cover scuffing and wear; cover lettering dulled. Contents sound. More
Tokyo: Seito Shorin Press, 1934. Hardcover. frontis, photos, sketches and maps (including a map on endpapers), indexes, lii, 496p. Original cloth. Backstrip darkened. Endpapers browned. No Jacket. Errata slip laid in. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Hangain, 1954. 1st ed. Hardcover. This portfolio only (of 2). 6 prints & a booklet ([8]p. with errata slip and printing on inner sides of wrapper). Original tied Portfolio. 24 x 30 cm. Splitting along front joint of tied portfolio. Internally Fine. Japanese and English text. More
.202: Yale University Art Gallery, (c. 2020). 1st ed. Paperback. color photos, 278p. Softcover in original wrapper. 30 cm. More
n.p. [presumably somewhere in Japan]: n.p., n.d. Paperback. black & white illustrations, 26cm. Softcover in stiff flexible cover. (72) unnumbered pages. Modest soiling. Contents sound with chipping and short edge tears on many leaves -- no loss of text or images. An uncommon catalog offering mostly small, decorative stands, plate..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1905. 2nd printing. Hardcover. xiii, 225p. Original blue cloth. 19 cm. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. No jacket. First published in 1904. More
15 page letter on note-sized paper from Mrs. C. Burnell Olds in Okayama, Japan dated Oct, 27, 1925. Envelope present but postmark and stamp portion gone. Olds reports that she had visited the True Beauty Girls School right near the hills and quite a distance from town in the summer..... More
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 2 vols. color plates (including frontises), 4 folding maps, xii, xiii, 492, xi, 496p. Original plum-colored cloth. djs. 22cm. Backstrips faded. Reprint of the 1859 Edinburgh edition which was titled "Narrative of the Early of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan...." This Oxford..... More
Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihon Sha, (c. 1964). Manshichi Sakamoto. Hardcover. 67p plus 107 plates. Original tan cloth. Clear acetate jacket. Original slipcase covered in what was probably brownish red (terra cotta) cloth. 34 cm. Backstrip and top and bottom edges of slipcase faded; the two largest sides of backstrip faded..... More
Osaka: Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantiloe Steamship Company, Ltd.). Hardcover. illustrations, photos, 402p. (including numerous advertisements). Original padded red cloth. 29cm. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed and chipped. Splitting at bottom of front joint. Pages 7-9 contain a list, organized by country and city, of the firms advertising in..... More
[Tokyo]: Kairyudo, n.d. [1930s?]. Hardcover. 190p. Original green cloth. 19cm. Minor cover warping and wear. No Jacket. Fourteen Western writers in English. Pages 165-190 contain notes (about the writers and some of the vocabulary). More
New York: Brentano's, n.d. (circa. 1920). Hardcover. frontis & illustrations (some color), ix, 278p. Original purple cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 25 cm. Doering bookplate (for Otto C. Doering, an Executive at Sears, Roebuck) on front pastedown. Offsetting and browning on front free endpaper. No jacket. An appealing copy..... More
Chicago: The Paper Mills' Company, n.d. (first half of the 20th century]. Paperback. 14 paper samples on (28) unnumbered leaves (including wrapper). Softcover in stapled and tied original wrapper. 17 cm. Cover soiled with some wrinkling along edges and there is an old, relatively light stain around the base of..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1953. Paperback. frontis, 73p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Prices realized (and what appear to be a few bid limits) written in pencil on quite a few items in the first half of the catalog. Cover edges worn. Other wear. More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1968. Paperback. illustrations (black & white), 35p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Former owner's address label in upper corner of title-page. Hammer price inked in for each item. Printed price list laid in. Sale Number 2785. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xvii, 444p. Light green cloth with yellow title labels on backstrip and front cover. 25cm. Cover rather soiled. Title label on backstrip browned. Two bookplates (John Schroder and John Howell). No Jacket. Introduction by Sanki Ichikawa. More
n.p. n.d. [ca. 1947]. Hardcover. 180 photos. Various sizes ranging from about 7 x 9cm. up to 10 x 15cm. Photo mounted in album by a strip of cellophane tape across top edge of photo hinging photo to album page. A minority of the photos have brief ink or pencil..... More