New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First American Edition. The author's best-known work of fiction, basis for the Hiroshi Teshigahara film of the same name (Criterion 394). First Printing. Octavo; teal cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 239... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],151pp.; maps. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest approx. 1.5" to spine crown, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Unsigned... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper; near-new. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Bard Graduate Center, 2005-2006. More
[Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1983]. First Edition. Folio (37cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; unpaginated; chiefly color photographic illus. Spine and bottom edge of upper cover rather sunned, spine crown very slightly pulled, old price sticker to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Photobook devoted entirely to the career Bando... More
[New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1938]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp. Wrappers a bit worn and toned, small paper flaw affecting the "I" in "Is," though a previous owner has filled it in with blue ink. Still, Near Very Good and sound. Issued by the Negro... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pink decorative dust jacket, photographically illustrated endpapers; 320pp.; frontispiece, 12 leaves of photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos. General shelf-wear to jacket edges, portions of textblock a bit cockled from damp; contemporary bookplate to front free endpaper... More
Tokyo: Shokokusha, [1955]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 200pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, faint crease across upper panel, textblock shaken in binding, some minor finger-soil to a few leaves, else Near Very Good. Bilingual text in Japanese... More
Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1985? First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pink pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Spine edge sunned, some blue ink smudging throughout textblock, apparently from time of production, else Very Good and sound. Essay on the emerging popularity of Japanese baseball by the animal welfare activist, issued by the... More
[Kyoto: Origin Press, 1964]. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 111. Large square quarto (30cm.); original cloth in white gilt-lettered dust jacket; unpaged; tissue-guarded plates by Ohno. Jacket fore-edges significantly foxed, a few tiny closed tears to extremities, cloth edges very lightly discolored from damp... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955. First Edition. Small quarto. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 286pp; illus. Slight wear to board edges; jacket slightly worn but complete; a solid, Very Good copy. With presentation inscription from artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn to front endpaper: "Happy Birthday R-- / Bernarda," undated. From... More
London / New York: Batsford / Putnam, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 198pp. Tight, unmarked Near Fine copy in like dustwrapper - a fresh, handsome copy. Issued simultaneously in Great Britain and America. More
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Novel about an Englishman in Japan, who falls in love with both the culture as well as a young Japanese woman betrothed to another man as a second wife. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); 3/4 floral-patterned handmade paper over black cloth, with three-color title... More
New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1932. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick paper wrappers; 29pp. Wrappers corner-creased and a trifle soiled; else tight, clean and unmarked - Very Good or better. Transcript of a round table, presented as one of the Foreign Policy Association's "New York Luncheon Discussions," on the... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914. First Edition. Quarto. Original olive cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; lii, 195pp; color frontispiece + 64 inserted leaves of photographic plates (mostly halftones, but including 10 color lithographs). Moderate foxing to endpapers; scattered faint foxing to text; ownership stamps to front... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 274pp. Fine, unmarked copy in unworn jacket; near-new. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black dust jacket; x,390pp.; photographic frontispiece, map endpapers. Jacket extremities chipped and rubbed with some occasional foxing; small soil spots to lower edges of front endpapers, else interior about fine. Very Good. Journalist's account of the on-going... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1962. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 273pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, small tear at spine foot, else Very Good or better. More
[New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1946]. A rather patronizing study of the reconstruction of post-War Japan with a concluding statement by Central Asia scholar Owen Lattimore. First edition, 8vo (19.25cm.); original staplebound wrappers printed in yellow, navy, and black; 96pp.; maps, illus. Some minor dust soiling, else about Fine. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, top edge gilt; [6],541,[1][2](ads)pp.; color frontispiece. Light rubbing to extremities, contemporary bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. BAL 7941. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, top edge gilt; v,[1],541,[1],[2](ads)pp.; color frontispiece. Spine cloth a bit darkened, light shelf wear, hinges cracked but still quite sturdy, else Near Very Good and sound. BAL 7941. More
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1907. Copyright Edition. 12mo (16cm.); contemporary half tan morocco over pictorial paper boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers; 280pp. Light shelf-wear, contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Emmaus, PA: Story Classics, [1952]. First Thus. Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 1561. Oblong octavo (13.25x19.25cm.); original two-toned cloth, gilt-lettered spine, terracotta topstain, black board slipcase; 253pp.; illus. Black stain to upper cover apparently made at time of binding, slipcase rather worn, else Very Good. An attractive edition. More
Sandy Hook, CT: Shorewood Fine Art Books, 1989. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 25.5cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 260pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to bottom corners and edges, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; small tear... More
[Paris]: Hologramme, [1993]. First French Edition. Square quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 184pp.; illus. throughout. Near Fine. Text entirely in French. More
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