1919. MAUGHAM, W. S. THE MOON AND SIXPENCE. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first issue with four pages of ads. Small 8vo., green cloth. A bit of tape residue from a book description on the flyleaf. Toning to paper -- as in every copy we have handled. Book is... More
1902. 963. (BOAS & HUNT). KWAKIUTL TEXTS. Part One. Recorded by George Hunt and edited and revised by Franz Boas. Publications of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, January 1902. Whole Series, Vol. V. Anthropology, Vol. IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered... More
[EMAKI HANDSCROLL]. GOLD AND SILVER LANDSCAPE UNDERPAINTED POETRY SCROLL. A wonderful example of a poetry scroll, written in an elegant late 17th, early 18th century hand. Extraordinary in three features, the cover is superb, with a beautiful found pattern of what appears to be pieces of gold foil laid down... More
1800. [EHON] Ki CHIKUDÔ. CHIKUDÔ GAFU CHIKUDÔ GAFU NIHEN. [Kyoto, Kansei 12 {1800}], Bunka 12 [1815]. 27.9 x 17.1 cm. A total of 22 double page color printed illustrations in Nanga style. Butterfly-bound album, original blue-grey covers, title labels. No colophon in the first series, colophon in the second. When... More
[EHON] Mori GENKÔSAI [1807-86]. INRÔFU, Ichi no kan, 2 vols. 27.4 x 18.3 cm. No colophon, originally published in 1830,but probably early Meiji era. [Original?] blue grey covers, no title labels. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji. Rich, detailed and beautiful b+w and color woodblock prints. Genkôsai was a sculptor, painter, designer... More
1800. [EHON] Ki CHIKUDÔ. CHIKUDÔ GAFU CHIKUDÔ GAFU NIHEN. [Kyoto, Kansei 12 {1800}, Bunka 12 {1815}]. 27.9 x 17.1 cm. A total of 22 double page color printed illustrations in Nanga style. Butterfly-bound album, original blue-grey covers, title labels. No colophons. No two copies of this book that I have... More
1813. [EHON] Yorita Kyûhô. Shinkoku KINSHI GAFU. Nagoya, Ôsaka, Edo & Kyôto, Tôhekido, et al. Bunka 10 [1813]. 29.6 x 19.3 cm, original covers and printed paper title label. Some staining but a wonderful printing overall. There are copies at Waseda and the Diet Library in Tokyo. Not in Mitchell... More
1916. [EHON - Botanical] Iwasaki Tsunemasa. HONSÔ ZUFU. 25.6 X 17.5 cm. Taisho 5 - Taisho 10 [1916-21]. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, with printed paper title labels. Complete in 95 vols. with the 2 volume supplementary index. The classic work of botanical classification created by Iwasaki, (1786-1842) which was abortively... More
17. [FLOWER ARRANGING] Rokkakudô Ikenobo, et al. EMAKI HANDSCROLL WITH 34 FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS. 27.0 cm high scroll, in a brocade cover, bone jiku scroll handles. The flower arrangement examples depicted date back to masters of the late 17th and early 18th century and this rendition seems consistent with a mid... More
1936. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHÔ. SHINA FUKÔ ZU-E. Kyoto, Otsuka Minoru Showa 11 - [1936]; #32 of 150cc. Large gold cloth brocade portfolio 43 x 54 cm. Twelve prints of China [ea. 32 X 43 cm image size] Wonderfully well printed using a hybrid of collotype with woodcut printed color... More
1916. [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endô, publisher. HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE A folding album of 30 oban-size color woodcut prints, printed by Nishimura Kumakichi and published by Kanao Bun'endô in 1916-17. There are two prefatory pages: a map of the trip around western Japan depicted herein, and a table of contents, plus the... More
[CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] Matsuzaki U-ichi. Untitled "EIGHT VIEWS OF NAGASAKI" 8 oblong ôban size prints, tipped onto sheets and overlain by English and Japanese bilingual descriptions of the scenes depicted. The sheets are 30.5 x 38.2 cm. Matsuzaki [1895-1972] did these prints in the early 1950s. He had attended Tôkyô... More
1971. [KATAZOME] SERIZAWA Keisuke. Katazome KOZARA MOYÔ HINAGATA. Tôkyô, Gohachi, Shôwa 46 [1971]. The publisher's own copy, #1 of 100 cc, with his bookplate done by Kawakami Sumio. Remarkable association copy. 28.7 x 25.6 cm. Printed on and bound into Japanese handmade paper. Lovely stencilled designs of small dish patterns... More
1975. [EHON] Kosetsu SHIKI. 2 vols. SEKINO JUNICHIRÔ, artist. Tokyo: Gallery Gohachi, Shôwa 50 [1975]. This is #58 of 95 copies, each volume signed and sealed by Sekino Junichirô. Oblong Japanese-style string binding, 21.9 x 31.7 cm. Color printed paper covers. each volume with 34 full page b+w woodcuts, one... More
1850. [EHON] Maruyama Ôkyo, artist. ÔKYO GAFU. Kyôto, Hishiya Magobei, Kaei 3 [1850]. Brocade original covers, and printed title label, 27.5 x 18.5 cm. A large and lovely book based on Ôkyo's works, published here for the first time in 1850. Ôkyo is one of the most important artists of... More
1811. [EHON] KAWAMURA Bumpô. KANGA SHINAN NIHEN. Kyoto: Hishiya Magobei, et al., Bunka 8 [1811]. String-bound Japanese style in the original covers with paper title labels. 26.1 x 17.2 cm. This "second series" of the KANGA SHINAN [Manual of Chinese-style Painting] was the only one illustrated by Bumpô and was... More
1813. [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi. SÔKA RYAKUGASHIKI. Toto: Suharaya Ichibei et al, Bunka 10 [1813]. 27.3 x 18.2 cm Original covers, printed title label. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. Perhaps the finest and most unusual of all the "ryakugashiki". Hardly ever found in good impression, because of the demanding nature of the... More
1910. [EHON] Nakamura Fusetsu, artist. FUSETSU HAIGA. Tokyo: Kôkadô, Meiji 43 [1910]. 2 volumes, 27.9 x 16.4 cm., Green paper covers with printed paper labels, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji. In a modern clasped chitsu case. This is the "saihan" printing of April 1910, the same month as the first printing... More
1922. [MASKS] DARUMAYA, publisher. MEN TO MASUKU Jô Ge. Ôsaka, Darumaya, Taishô 11 [1922]. 2 vols., complete, orihon folding albums. 28.1 x 20.4 cm. A wonderful selection of masks from cultures all over the world, reproduced in color woodblock prints. Good printing, very good condition. Unusual, with the publisher's clasped chitsu case. More
1818. [EHON] Aikawa MINWA, artist. KÔRIN GASHIKI Zen. Ôsaka & Kyôto, Bunka 15 [1818]. 26.1 x 18.5 cm. Original covers and printed title label. Delicately printed color prints after designs by Ogata Kôrin. A few pages with slight repaired worming, the covers are rubbed, but overall a lovely copy of... More
1949. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. KOJIKI EMAKI. Tôkyô, Sei-en-sô, Shôwa 24 [1949]. Printed "hors commerce" #78 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Sekino. A large (36 x 30 cm) kappa-ban, color stencil-printed volume in stencil-printed boards, bound fukuro-toji but with Western-style spine. A rendition of the early histories embodied... More
1970. [CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] KANAMORI Yoshio. KOZAN. Nihon Aishokai, Shôwa 45, signed by Kanamori. Number 134 of 150 copies. Huge western bound folio, 45.9 x 31.7 cm. Each of the 15 color woodblock illustrations is double page - and are in consequence remarkably large and therefore difficult to print. Quite... More
1793. [EHON]. TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI. 3 Vols., Osaka, Terada Shazaemon, Kyôhô 5 [1720]. 25.6 x 16.8 cm. Original covers with printed paper title labels. The covers are soiled. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji. An early 18th century edition of this work in good impression. Possibly illustrated by Jichôsai, though the artist... More
1816. [EHON] Kameda BÔSAI, artist. KYÔCHÛZAN. Original covers with chipped printed paper label. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. 27.1 x 18.4 cm; there is a colophon on the inside of the back cover with a Bunka 13 date [1816] listing 6 publishers, including Suwaraya Ihachi and Suwaraya Mohei of Edo. There... More
1803. [EHON] I-Fukyu & Ike no Taiga. I-FUKYU IKE NO TAIGA GAFU. 2 volumes. Kyoto & Edo: Maruya Gempachiro & Suharaya Mohei. Kyowa 3 [1803]. 27.2 x 18.2 cm. Blue paper covers, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. A bit of one original printed paper title label remains. Follows the copy at Mitchell... More