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 about The Woman in the Dunes

Tokyo: Animage, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm x 21cm). Pictorial wrappers (softcover); pictorial dustjacket; 114pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to upper extremities, else clean and sound. The art work and character designs that Japanese... More about The Art of Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago

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 about Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain and the United States, 1931-1945

[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 about Is Japan the Champion of the Colored Races? The Negro's Stake in Democracy [Cover Title

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 about Japanese Baseball Makes the Big Leagues [Samisdat Vol. C, no. 1

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 about The Architecture of Japan

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 about The Actors' Analects (Yakusha Rongo

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 about Is the Peace Machinery Imperiled by the Far Eastern Situation?

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1988. Second printing. Quarto; cloth boards; dustjacket; 223pp; illus. Fine copy in jacket. Extensively illustrated after photographs by Chiaki Yoshida. More about Kabuki

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 about Label] Gold Star / Inspected by Hara & Co., Yokohama

[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 about Eclipse of the Rising Sun: Headline Series, No. 56, March-April, 1946

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 about Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation

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 about Tales Out of the East [Limited Edition