New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm); full black cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine, and calligraphic character embossed on front cover; dustjacket; [5],6-223,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to renown actor, dancer, and musician Geoffrey Holder, embellished with a...... More
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
Japan: Kofusha Shuppan Ltd., 1991. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm x 21cm). Black wrappers (softcover) with titling in black on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 112pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped bottom spine corner; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight rubbing to..... 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
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
[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; 47pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Minor toning, else Near Fine. Contributors include Suzuki-roshi and Thich Nhat Hanh. 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.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wrinkling and faint soil, else Very Good and sound. Contributors including Tenshin Zenkin (Reb Anderson); Shunryu Suzuki Roshi; Yvonne Rand; and Thich Nhat Hanh. 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
[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 39pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Upper cover a bit soiled with small paper flaw slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, light wear from handling, else Very Good. Contents include membership news and bookkeeping; and poetry by the 8th..... 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
![Japanese Baseball Makes the Big Leagues [Samisdat Vol. C, no. 1]. Merritt CLIFTON](/pictures/medium/42904.jpg?v=1541801679)
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
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: 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
San Francisco: Bureau of Buddhist Education, Buddhist Churches of America, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [2],14pp. Light toning and wear, else Very Good. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. First American Edition. First appearance in the US of Endo's best-known work, "the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of a fearful persecution of the small Christian community" (from front flap). Johnston's translation was first published in Tokyo, by..... 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
Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; [24pp]. Small spot of discoloration to rear cover, else Near Fine. Gifford's seventh published book, a collection of short lyrics mostly composed in Japan in 1975. More
![Label] Gold Star / Inspected by Hara & Co., Yokohama. HARA, CO](/pictures/medium/45532.jpg?v=1565992601)
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
