Oroville, CA: The George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, Inc., 1977. First Revised Edition. Octavo (21cm.); white pictorial paper wrappers; 101pp. Text block edges have some toning and soiling, with additional light soiling and handling wear throughout. Sound, Very Good. Wrappers are foxed on front panel, with sunning very evident on rear..... 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

[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

[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching text without loss of sense, some uneven toning, else Very Good. Contents include lectures by Dainin Katagiri-roshi, Tenshin (Reb) Anderson, Sojun Mel Weitsman, and Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. More

[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 31pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching illustration but not text, light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Contents chiefly devoted to the Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm, the last payment on..... More

San Francisco: Zen Center, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan pictorial staplebound wrappers; 64pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, else Fine. Contributors include Suzuki-roshi, Dainin Katagiri, Yvonne Rand, and others. More

La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1951. Reprint. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in green; vi,[2],46pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the first (1905) edition. 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: Columbia University Press, 1969. First American Edition. "...a collection of advice and notes left by great actors of the live popular theater of Japan, the kabuki, at the end of the seventeenth century. This book provides a fully annotated translation of the Analects, with much illustrative material" (from..... 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

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

Yokohama: Hara & Co., n.d., ca. 1920. Original pictorial inspection label (12.5x9.5cm.) printed in colors. Light soil to verso with, very faint crease line, else Fine. Label to be affixed to Company-inspected export shipments, depicting a city skyline at twilight. 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