Japan from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

No place [Yokohama?], T. Enami & others, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn:… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1969). First American edition & first translation from the Japanese. Octavo (8.5" x 6.25"), 149 pages. Publisher's deep red cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's card soliciting information to assist with "promoting cultural exchange between East & West" laid-in. Almost indiscernible small stain on the upper cover, previous owner Julia Kuroda's rubber-stamped… Read more about this item

Kyoto, Japan: Uchida Art Co., Kyoto Handicraft Center, no date (ca. 1970). Single sheet measuring 55 inches by 6.75 inches accordion-folded into decorated paper over boards measuring 7 inches by 5.25 inches, with a printed paper label on the upper cover. Provides 2 pages of text in Japanese & English & 18 woodblock prints in various states tipped to decorated… Read more about this item

[Tokyo, Japan]: Victor's Pearls/ Imperial Hotel, no date (circa 1960s). 32mo (4.5" x 3"). Publisher's striped blue & red cloth over flexible boards lettered in gilt on the upper cover. Gilt dull affecting legibility, lacking "magic Glass," otherwise very good. A splendid & sexy guide apparently given to gentlemen patrons of Victor's Pearls which had a location in Tokyo's Imperial… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan: Kofu-En Bonsai Nursery/ Yugi Yoshimura, no date in English, circa 1950's ? Duodecimo (7" x 5"), 34 unnumbered pages with illustrations from photographs of 58 Bonsai trees. Original stapled paper wraps. Text in Japanese except for rubber-stamped notice quoted in part above. Moderately soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise Very Good. Yoshimura (1921 - 1997) was a distinguished bonsai master largely… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, [1933] (from colophon tipped to the last blank page). First edition Quarto 10.5" x 7.5"), xi & 141 pages including exhaustive illustrations from photographs in text & occasionally full page, with color frontis & 3 color plates (two folding). Publisher's original decorated purple silk over boards stabbed & cord-bound in the Japanese style, with applied printed… Read more about this item

Takarazuka, [Hyogo Prefecture, Japan]: Kiyoshi-Kojin, 1962. Folio, [6], 60 plates (some color), 27 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with applied illustration in color on the upper cover, in acetate dust jacket & thick card slipcase. Text in Japanese & English. Short tear in the margin of one leaf (text unaffected), slight offsetting at front & rear blanks, otherwise near fine in… Read more about this item

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo, vi, [8],513 pp Gilt-lettered brown cloth in printed & decorated dust jacket. Faint stain at the fore edge of the textblock, previous owner's chop & date in ink at the ffep, otherwise very good in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket. Reprinted several times, author Beasley was Professor of the History of… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, Editeur, (1910). First edition, limited to 365 copies, this number 277. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"), 160 pp. plus 14 plates (including 4 mounted color woodblocks), each plate accompanied by guard-sheet with descriptive letter-press. Rebacked preserving original French fold printed & decorated thick paper wraps over plain card covers, with new printed paper spine label, Text… Read more about this item

No place [Yokohama?], no publisher, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn: spine… Read more about this item

Okinawa: NOB, broken run of 4 issues from volume 1; no 27, September 9, 1945; no 32, September 14, 1945; no 48, September 30, 1945; no 50, October 2, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two or three columns Includes a couple of "Male Call," comic strips by Milton… Read more about this item

Tokyo: T Hasegawa, Publisher & Art-Printer, [ca 1902]. 12mo, [24] pages (including covers) printed in color on crepe paper on 12 folded sheets, stabbed & tied with silk thread, illustrated throughout. Blanck/ BAL 7937C. Margins lightly sunned, briefly soiled, modest edge wear, otherwise very good The publisher's address as given in the colophon in Japanese (p. [23]) is 17 Kami Negishi… Read more about this item

No place [Okinawa ?]: U.S.S Monroe., 1945. Stapled newsletter. Broken run of 5 issues presumably published aboard: June 21, 23, 24, 26, & 27, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two columns. Includes cartoon appearances by Blondie, Male Call, & others. Not found in OCLC as of 6/8/2020. Additionally… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Shogakkan, (1984) First edition. Small folio, 107 & [1] pp, illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Publisher's white cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket & light card slipcase Text in Japanese, with English captions. Two OCLC holdings as of 6/4/2020 A fine copy in fine dust jacket in lightly soiled & rubbed… Read more about this item

[Tokyo]: Published by the Government of Japan with the cooperation of the Mainchi Newspapers, (1964). First edition. Complete in three small folio volumes: 224; 215, [1]; & 220 pp, profusely illustrated mostly from photographs (many in color). Publisher's yellow, red, or light blue cloth lettered in black on the spines, housed in a black cloth slipcase with printed paper label… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Shinkenchiku Sha, (1974). First edition thus. Complete in two quarto volumes, one with 100 accordion folded plates on double leaves (26 in color); the other (47 pp plus folding timeline chart) providing descriptive text in Japanese with English translation. Publisher's gilt-threaded black silk with printed paper title labels on the upper covers, in folding sleeve & slipcase, both in… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, (1998). First edition. Small folio, 480 pp., profusely illustrated in color. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & in blind on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Upper margins slightly sunned, ffep creased, text block beginning to slip at the top of the spine, otherwise… Read more about this item

Japan: Unpublished, 1909 - 1954. Approximately 430 presumably amateur silver gelatin photographs, 6.5" x 5" and smaller, and a couple of real photo postcards housed in three commercial albums, oblong or vertical quartos measuring about 11 inches by 8 inches. The compiler is unknown but quite possibly "Takamasa" (first name) or his descendants. His photograph is the first image in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., Printers, 1878. 8vo, 67 pp., large folding map. Original printed paper wraps, sewn. Margins browned, modest edge wear, Very Good An offprint originally published in volume v, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers The author, then an adjunct professor at Columbia, additionally wrote books on Japanese paper, prehistoric Japanese bronze bells, the gold… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Shinbun Gekkansha, Showa 27 [1952]. First edition. 4to, variously paginated, numerous illustrations from photographs & facsimiles. Publisher's tan cloth backed in gilt-lettered brown pigskin. Text mostly in Japanese. Small loss at the top of the spine, binding lightly soiled & rubbed, corners bumped, previous owner's name & chop at rear blank page, good or better. A massive volume of… Read more about this item