1931. [BOTANICAL] Murakami Sadao, artist. HANA NO SHIRABE. Kyoto, MARIA Gabo, Showa 6 [1931]. Large publisher's original chitsu clasped case, containing a cloth-covered portfolio with a table of contents of all 50 of the oban sized flower prints by Murakami, printed exquisitely by the MARIA Gabo. Image size 11 x...... More
Sekino Junichirō 関野準一郎, Takei Takeo 武井 武雄 Hashimoto Okiie et al. Editor unknown. Yamataka Noboru 山高登, 橋本興家. n.p. n.d. String bound fukuro toji 20 x 15cm with title slip in Japanese on front cover. A handmade album with a delightful collection of 52 color and monochrome bookplates and stamps by..... More
1916. [BIRD AND FLOWER] Watanabe Seitei. SEITEI KACHÔ. Tokyo, Okura Shoten, Okura Yasugoro, Taisho 5 [1916]. Brown cloth clasped portfolio, 28.2 x 38 cm. A complete collection of the 22 color prints, the preface and table of contents page, 24 sheets in all, with a colophon label on the inside..... More
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1837. (BIBLE - JAPAN). YOHANE FUKUIN NO DEN [GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN IN JAPANESE] Shingapôru: Kenka Shoin zôhan, 1837. Translated by the Britsh missionary Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (1803 -1851)between 1835-1836 at Macao, with the assistance of three shipwrecked Japanese sailors who taught him Japanese, one of whom, Yamamoto Otokichi..... More
1852. GROTE, George. HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. I.(-XII.) London: John Murray, v.d. (1852-56). The work is comprised of volumes from the third and fourth editions. Offered with: THE MINOR WORKS OF GEORGE GROTE. With critical remarks on his intellectual character, writings, and speeches, by Alexander Bain. London: John Murray, 1873..... More
1970. PIERCY, MARGE. DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP. Advance Review or Proof copy, stapled yellow wrappers, oblong, front wrapper printed in black with title and illustration, a totemic figure. Undated. 232 pages laid out on 116 pages, two columns (pages) on each side. Originally publised in 1970 by Doubleday, the..... More
19. ELIOT, T. S., autograph. CHRISTMAS CARD, SIGNED BY BOTH T. S. ELIOT AND HIS WIFE VALERIE. Undated, circa 1957-1964. The card, published by the Medici Society Ltd., London, is heavy cream-colored stock, 15 x 20 cm when folded, with a color reproduction of Joseph Anton Koch's painting "The Procession..... More
1822. BENTHAM, Jeremy. CHURCH-OF-ENGLANDISM AND ITS CATECHISM EXAMINED: preceded by strictures on the exclusionary system, as pursued in the national society's schools interspersed with parallel views of the English and Scottish established and non-established churches: and concluding with remedies proposed for abuses indicated: and an examination of the parliamentary system..... More
1922. (ELIOT, T.S.) THE DIAL, Volume LXXII, Number 5, November 1922. Greenwich, Connecticut: Dial Publishing, 1922. The first printed U.S. appearance of "The Waste Land" and it's second appearance overall having appeared the month before in England in the Criterion Magazine. Also includes contributions by Yeats, Picasso, Duncan Grant, Sherwood..... More
1514. [Ehon] Sin, Yong-gae. SOK SAMGANG HAENGSILTO Preface from 1514. Though a later impression, Korean volumes of this age and importance are seldom found. The Hangul gloss in the top margin is somewhat trimmed but the Hanja characters are complete. This Sok Samgang Haengsilto ('Continued Illustrated Exemplars of the Three..... More
1783. [Kyôka] Bakuribô, Teiya, [edited by]. Kyôka Kaki no Tane [Kyoto]: Fujiya Shinbe, 1783. First edition. A book of kyôka poems accompanied by twenty-one delightful sumi-e vignettes, edited by Bakuribo Teiya. Bakuribo, a kyôka poet based in Kyoto, was a student of kyôka poet Kyûjokan Donei (1723-1767). He edited three..... More
[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923. Oblong 11" x 15" grey cloth cord-bound covers. 93 original b/w photographs 4 3/8" x 6" mounted on thick card stock, two per page.Bookplate to fly leaf reads "ex libris K. Sinkai". Boards are slightly..... More
1955. MUIR, P. H. CATNACHERY. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955. One from a limited edition of 325 unnumbered copies printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press in San Francisco. [36] pp., the first leaf and final page are blank, colophon on p. [35]. Five folding facsimile..... More
1840. [EHON] TSURUNOYA Osamaru, editor. KYÔKA KANYÛSHÛ. [Tempô 11 {1840}] Ôsaka, carved by Shihosan Kiyû. A compilation of comical tanka, with illustratons in stunning colors by Kitagawa Horonobu and Matsukawa Hanzan (1815-1882). While little is known about the former artist, Matsukawa Hanzan is known to have studied art under ukiyo-e..... More
1801. [EHON] Utagawa TOYOKUNI I. Yôbô Shashin HAIYÛ SANKAI-KYÔ. Edo, Nishimiya Shinroku, Yorozuya Tajiemon, Kansei 13 [1801]. 21.6 x 15.2 cm., hanshibon, string-bound, fukuro-toji. With the original blind-stamped covers. The printed title labels is soiled but present on volume one and nearly gone from volume two. It has the title..... More
1837. [MEISHOKI]. NIKKÔ SANSHI, 5 vols. Edo, Tempo 8 [1837]. 25.7 x 18.3 cm., With original covers, though they are not the light blue covers called for at Mitchell 436, but rather grey covers with a blind-printed pattern of floral roundels. A fresh and clean copy in good impression (perhaps..... More
1949. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. KOJIKI EMAKI. Tôkyô, Sei-en-sô, Shôwa 24 [1949]. Printed "hors commerce" #33 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
1911. [EHON - Design Book] Yamada Unsôdô, publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, Meiji 44 [1911]. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon, with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's..... More
1923. [EHON] Tanigami KÔNAN, artist. SHÔKEI KABENJÔ Ichi. Kyoto, Unsodo, Taisho 12 [1923]. There is a complex series of puns involved with the titling of this work. Suffice it to say that the title describes a collection of designs of flowers and grasses of an unusually large size. They are..... More
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..... 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
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
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..... 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