1852. HUC, M. RECOLLECTIONS OF A JOURNEY THROUGH TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHINA, DURING THE YEARS 1844, 1845, AND 1846. (Appleton's Popular Library). New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852. Later printing, complete in two volumes. 12mo., red cloth; vol.1: 245pp. + ads, vol.2: 248pp. + ads.. Spine-pieces missing. Otherwise good..... More

19. [36 Poems by 36 Haikai Poets]. N.p. C. 1900-1920. 30.4 x 26.5cm volume string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with olive green brocade covers. The blank title slip is mounted on the top left of the front cover. The inner wrappers are covered in gold-flecked paper and the free endpapers appear to..... More

Aya Nishiki 綾錦 [Design album]. Late Meiji-Taisho Era. Oversize design album in boards approx. 69 x 43cm with 99 sheets approx 77.5 x 45cm. Each sheet has a rectangular design approx. 47.5 x 34.5cm, about two-thirds with penciled gridlines for production. Holes in the right hand margin for binding. Hand-brushed..... More

1956. Bijutsu Techō 美術手帖 No. 118 Bijutsu Shuppansha 美術出版社 Tokyo December, 1956 21 x 15cm issue of the monthly art magazine Bijutsu Techō 美術手帖. The cover has a modern art design of red and brown squares within a blue square while the back has 4 blue and red ads..... More

Bijutsu Techō 美術手帖 Vol. 44 No. 660 [Monthly Art Magazine ] Bijutsu Shuppansha 美術出版社 Tokyo October 1992 21 x 14.5cm monthly art magazine Bijutsu Techō 美術手帖 has a black and white reproduced photo of Yoshihara Jirō overlaid with a partial red circular design for which he was known, as..... More

The Cub’s Triumph [Kitsune no Tegara] (野干[狐]ノ手柄) [second edition]. Mrs. T. H. [Kate] James, translator. Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎, publisher for Kobunsha. Tokyo. Meiji 20 [1887]. 15x9.8cm small crepe paper book, opens Western style, with decorated wrappers. Perfect-bound with holes for sewing. This volume was published..... More

[Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言] Izeri Sosui, artist c. Early 20th C [Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言 ] Very long (approximately 33 feet long and 10 3/4 inches tall) black and..... More

Geijutsu Shinchō 芸術新潮 # 138 Shinchosha 新潮社 Tokyo June 1961 25.5 x 18cm periodical has a reproduced artwork in red with black down the center and title in red outlined in white. Article on the First Gutai exhibition at the Takashimaya dept store on pp. 70-1. With Japanese text..... More

Gendai Sekai Bijutsuten - Higashi to Nishi no Taiwa 現代世界美術展－東と西の対話 Contemporary Art: Dialogue between the East and the West Tokyo Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan 東京国立近代美術館 The National Museum of Modern Art, publisher Tokyo Shōwa 44 昭和44, 1969 24.4 x 25cm art catalog with orange covers..... More

Gutai 4 具体 4 - 第一回具体展 Special Edition of The 1st Gutai Art Exhibition. Gutai Henshū I-inkai 具体編集委員会, publisher. Nishinomiya. July 1, 1956. 24.5 x 25.7 cm magazine with dark red wrappers decorated with an image of abstract art. 34 pages of black and white photographic images of artworks, from..... More

1967. Interior インテリア [periodical] No. 105 Gakurin Tokyo December 1967 32.5 x 25.5cm magazine Interior インテリア with color and b+w photographic images, diagrams, inserts, fold-outs, a map, glassine and color pages and Japanese text, with some English, throughout. Decorated wrappers with a color negative exposure of an image (found..... More

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 10 - The Matsuyama Mirror. Mrs. T. H. [Kate] James, translator . Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎, publisher for Kobunsha. Tokyo. Meiji 19 [1886]. 14.8 x 9.7cm small crepe paper book, opens Western style with decorated wrappers. Perfect-bound with holes for sewing..... More

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 11: The Hare of Inaba (Inaba no Shiro Usagi 因幡の白兎). Mrs. T. H. James, translator. Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎, publisher for Kobunsha. Tokyo. Meiji 19 [1886] . 14.8 x 9.6cm small crepe paper book, opens Western style. Perfect-bound with holes for..... More