1952. [Chinese Woodcuts, Peking Jung Pao Chai] SHIH CHU CHAI CHIEN P'U Fei An T'i. Peking: Peking Jung Pao Chai,[with the 1952 preface] Set of four volumes (each 31 x 21.3 cm) of the TEN BAMBOO HALL POETRY PAPERS. The TEN BAMBOO HALL POETRY PAPERS, of course, date back to... More
1789. [EHON - HORSES] Hirasawa Kyokuzan & Suzuki Fuyô, artist. KAYÔ HISÔ 2vols. Edo, Suharaya Mohei, Kansei 1 [1789]. Ôhon, string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 26.0 x 18.5 cm. 2 vols. Original title labels, original covers. Wonderful pictorial treatise on horses, handcolored images of horses in all their habits. Considered an important... More
1812. [ÔRAIMONO] [Kitao MASAYOSHI]. ONNA BUNSHOU Shikishikagami. Kyôto, Tôkyô & Ôsaka. String-bound fukuro-toji, Japanese-style in the opriginal printed covers. A scattering of tiny wormholes to the covers but the interior is very good. Surprisingly good printings for such an ephemeral item. The title label is missing. The plentiful illustrations of... More
18. [1.][Unidentified.] [2.]Paper label: DAIBUTSU, BRONZE IMAGE AT KAMAKURA. Numbered in negative: 1020. [3.]Paper label: View of Honmoku, Bathing Place Near Yokohama. [4.]Paper label: CUTTING RICE. [5.]Paper label: DOCTOR. [6.]Paper label: SELLING FLOWERS. [7.]Paper label: Basket Seller. [8.]Paper label: KAGO, TRAVELLING CHAIR. [9.]Paper label: JAPANESE MARRIAGE. [10.]Paper label: Cathedral Tonosawa... More
1875. [EHON] Kawanabe GYÔSAI, Artist. Tsuuzokû ISOPPU MONOGATARI. Tokyo: Watabe. Meiji 5 [1872] 6 volumes. Hanshibon, 22.5 x 15 cm. Blindstamped patterned cream paper covers, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. The interesting and now increasingly uncommon translation of Aesop's Fables into Japanese from the English version of Thomas James. Illustrated throughout in... More
1907. [DESIGN] Furuya Korin, designer. SHASEI SÔKA MOYÔ 2 vols. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 40 [1907]. Folding orihon albums, 24.9 x 18 cm. Printed paper over card covers, each volume with 25 double page color woodblock prints of vegetal and flower designs by the important designer Korin. Lavishly printed and overprinted... More
1926. KYOMU SHISÔ-SHA. YOSHIYUKI Eisuke (edited by). KYOMU SHISÔ = Nihilism. Tôkyô: Kyomu Shisô-sha, Taisho 15 (1926). 21.6 x14.8 cm. Western binding, paper wrappers. Eisuke Yoshiyuki (1906-1940) was a dadaist poet and modernist novelist. Born in Okayama prefecture, in 1922 Yoshiyuki quit high school after being drawn to the SOMETHING... More
1928. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. THE PUBLICITY WORLD. Gotaiten Hôshuku SÔSHOKU ZUAN-SHU. Tokyo, Shotenkai-sha, Showa 3 [1928]. Decorated paper wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues... More
1930. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. THE PUBLICITY WORLD. Volume 7, number 11. Tokyo, Kôkokukai-sha, Showa 5 [1930]. Decorated paper wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 88 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues... More
1928. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. THE PUBLICITY WORLD. Volume 5, number 1. Tokyo, Shotenkai-sha, Showa 3 [1928]. Decorated paper wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 84 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues... More
2012. ESKENAZI. QING PORCELAIN FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. London: Eskenazi, 2012. 4to, 106pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt to front and spine. Fine, in fine dustjacket. More
1960. [KATAZOME] OKAMURA Kichiemon. NARADA NO TAFU. Shôwa 35 [1960]. String-bound Japanese-style, privately printed in 50 copies. 31.1 x 19.7 cm., Okamura (1916-2002) was a student of Serizawa Keisuke and embraced his interest in traditional Japanese folk arts, papermaking and stencil printing (katazome). This lovely monograph on Japanese bark-cloth from... More
1964. [SÔSAKU HANGA] KAWAKAMI Sumio, artist. ARASUKA MONOGATARI. Aishokai, [Shôwa 39 {1964}]. 32.9 x 25.0 cm. The standard limited edition of this work, a record of a 1918 trip to Alaska, #5 of 140 copies. The 15 lovely double page color woodblocks were printed from blocks carved by Kawakami. The... More
1899. [HIKIFUDA]. WASHI INSATSU MIHON. 10 1/4 X 14 1/2 inches. Oblong album of "hikifuda", some 60 advertising sheets, handouts... Here as samples in a salesman's book.. Several of the enclosed designs have a scrawled "nashi" - "out of stock". There is edgewear, coverwear, some worming. But hikifuda are a.... More
192. [DESIGN] MATSUZAKAYA DEPARTMENT STORE. MEIKA MOYÔ. Tôkyô, Hakurinsha (n.d. - c. late 1920s) 15 1/2 X 11 1/2 Inches. A deluxe folio of 15 large color woodblock printed designs done for the department store as a keepsake in 100 copies (of which this is number 75) presumably for their... More
1918. [EMA] Tanaka SHUNJI, editor. EMA KAGAMI Isshû, Nishû. Printed by by Bankadô in Kyôto, Taishô 7 [1918]. Two large tassel-bound volumes of designs and explanatory text regarding the ubiquitous ema tablets used as offerings at shrines. Originally "pictures of horses" "e-ma" were used as a substitute for the horse... More
193. MIZUSHIMA NIHÔFU, artist. MANMOU MANGA 2 kan. 2 scrolls, each about 9 inches tall (Volume one is about 28 feet long and volume two is about 20 feet long). These COMIC SKETCHES OF MANCHURIA AND MONGOLIA represent a remarkable visual record of a moment in history when Japan was... More
![[KANTÔ DAISHINSAIGACHÔ]. EARTHQUAKE ALBUM, Nakazawa Hiromit Okamoto Ippei.](/pictures/thumb/90310.jpg?v=1543514412)
[EARTHQUAKE ALBUM]. Okamoto IPPEI; Nakazawa HIROMITSU, et al. artists. [KANTÔ DAISHINSAIGACHÔ]. Orihon folding album, about 14 x 9 inches. Brocade covers, no title (Title implied, as above). There are twelve double page 14 x 18 inch watercolor paintings reflecting the 1921 catastrophic earthquake and fire and the immediate aftermath. Hiromitsu... More
1932. ALIGHIERI, Dante. DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Folio. 491pp. Rose and buff decorative cloth with rose cloth label to spine, stamped in gilt. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Translated by Melville Best Anderson with an introduction by Arthur Livingston. Designed, printed on rag... More
1885. HAWTHORNE, Julian. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND HIS WIFE. A Biography. London: Chatto ans Windus, 1885. First British Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 505pp., 465pp. B/w illustrations. Contemporary full red morrocco, stamped in gilt to front back and spine with gilt leather turn-ins. Edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate presentation to front pastedown... More
1903. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. With a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson, and a general index. Illustrated with photogravures. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1903(-1904). The Concord Edition. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo, three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled... More
1948. ELIOT, T.S. ODERMARKEN OG ANDRE DIGTE (THE WASTELAND). Kobenhavn: Westermann, 1948. First Danish Edition. Small 8vo. 86pp. #XLVIII of 235 copies signed by author and translators (Kai Friis Moller and Tom Kristensen). Blue paper covered portfolio with white paper title label lettered and ruled in black and blue. Spine... More
1950. ELIOT, T.S. THE COCKTAIL PARTY. London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. First revised edition, being the fourth impression. "In addition to some minor corrections, certain alterations in Act III, based on the experience of the play's production, were made in the fourth impression of the text." This copy is inscribed... More
1960. ELIOT, T. S. FOUR QUARTETS. London: Faber & Faber, 1960. Limited edition, number 207 of 290, signed by Eliot on colophon. 4to., 2 blank leaves, 53 pp., [1], [2], 2 blank leaves. Quarter parchment stamped in gilt over green marbled paper boards, t.e.g., edges untrimmed, with green marbled paper... More
1940. .ELIOT, T. S. OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS. London: Faber & Faber, [1940]. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo. 50pp. Color illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. Cream cloth boards stamped with colored design to front and lettered in red to spine. Bottom edge trimmed. Small stain to rear board. Very Good... More