[CHILDREN'S BOOK] Nihon Kyôiku Ongaku Kyôkai. EHON SHÔKA Natsu no Maki. Tôkyô, Shôwa 7 [1932] Color-printed stapled wrappers, 22.8 x 15.3 cm. Illustrated throughout with wonderful color drawings, creatures of the sea and land playing musical instruments - the cover is by the inimitably charming Takei Takeo. There are stories..... More

1926. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Run of 6 issues from Volume Five. Numbers 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12. Taishô 15 [1926] Tôkyôsha, Tôkyô. Each bound in wrappers, 25.8 x 18.8 cm. On quality paper, printed in color throughout. Kodomo no Kuni (The Land of Children)..... More

1924. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Run of 8 issues from Volume Three. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 10. Taishô 13 [1924] Tôkyôsha, Tôkyô. Each bound in wrappers, 25.8 x 18.8 cm. On quality paper, printed in color throughout. Kodomo no Kuni (The Land..... More

1931. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 10, #10. Tokyo, September 1931. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous..... More

1932. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 11, #10. Tokyo, September 1932. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous..... More

1932. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 11, #4. Tokyo, April 1932. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous..... More

1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12, #2. Tokyo, February 1933. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous..... More

1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12, #4. Tokyo, April 1933. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous..... More

1929. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 8, #15. Tokyo, December 1929. THE LAND OF CHILDREN was the finest kid's magazine of the prewar period in Japan. There were contributions in each heavily illustrated issue by some of the finest illustrators and writers of the time. Issues are..... More

1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO TENCHI V. 1, #2. Tokyo, June 1933. There must be an interesting story behind KODOMO NO TENCHI. In style, size, printing quality and even in the artists and illustrators it featured (Takei, Hatsuyama, etc.) it iterated KODOMO NO KUNI. There were additions, some..... More

1965. (CHINA). CHINESE JOURNEY. Photographs by Gun Kessle. Text by Jan Myrdal. New York: Pantheon Books, (1965). First edition. Small 4to., red and black cloth stamped in gilt, spine in gilt. 160 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A very good copy; clean and bright, in an edgeworn dust jacket... More

1945. (CHINATOWN). CHINATOWN U.S.A. Text and Photographs by Elizabeth Colman. New York: John Day, [c. 1945]. Small 4to, 32 pp. + 88 pp. photographic section; red cloth. A very good copy. More

1974. (CHINESE ART). MURALS FROM THE HAN TO THE TANG DYNASTY. 4to., beige cloth; black & white and color illustrations; 100 pp. In Chinese, with the English language text inserted in a stapled 4to pamphlet (Publishing information for pamphlet: Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974). A few pencil notations, else fine..... More