1925. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Run of 9 issues from Volume Four. Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 & 12. Taishô 14 [1925] Tôkyôsha, Tôkyô. Each bound in wrappers, 25.8 x 18.8 cm. On quality paper, printed in color throughout. Kodomo no Kuni (The...
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)...
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...
Shibata ZESHIN, painter. Large album leaf painting of an Oni. 19.4 x 30.6 cm image size. Mounted in a large oblong album leaf. Signed and sealed by Zeshin. With his characteristic brushwork. Zeshin (1807-91) was a lacquer artist, painter and printmaker. His works have become much sought-after of late. Zeshin...
1923. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Run of 10 issues from Volume Two. Numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12. Taishô 12 [1923] Tôkyôsha, Tôkyô. Each bound in wrappers, 25.8 x 18.8 cm. On quality paper, printed in color throughout. Kodomo no Kuni...
1922. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Run of 6 issues from Volume One. Numbers 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 & 12. Taishô 11 [1922] 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)...
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Natsu no bu. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24 [1891]. 1 vol., approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. This is Vol.2 [Summer] and has 32 plates. These original Tanaka Jihei issues (which preceded the Unsodo versions) have become quite...
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Haru no bu. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24 [1891]. 1 volume, approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. Vol.1 [Spring] only, it has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers, of which 7 are huge double page prints...
1931. [CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] HIRATSUKA Un'ichi, editor. KITSUTSUKI Hangashû 3-go Shizumono. This "Dôjin" magazine was limited to a maximum of 500 copies, though, as it ceased production that year of 1931, it would be hard to credit such a large production of it. Edited by Hiratsuka Un'ichi, as well as...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
1907. [DESIGN] Furuya Kôrin, 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...
1926. KYOMU SHISÔ-SHA. YOSHIYUKI Eisuke (edited by). KYOMU SHISÔ = Nihilism. 3 volumes, all published. 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.....
1928. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. THE PUBLICITY WORLD. Gotaiten Hôshuku SÔSHOKU ZUAN-SHÛ. Tokyo, Shotenkai-sha, Showa 3 [1928]. Decorated paper wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues.....
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...
1928. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. 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...
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.
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
