Large format, staple-bound. 10"w x 14 1/8"h. Front cover has 6" tear along spine and is worn. Approx. 28 pages. Age-toned pages. Center folded page has become detached. Lovely line drawings by M. Kuwata. Text in English and Japanese. Images depicting American children's games with American people on one page with Japanese children's games and Japanese people on the facing page. View More...
Large format, staple-bound. 10"w x 14 1/8"h. 28 pages. Lovely line drawings by N. Sugimura. Text in English and Japanese. Images depicting American sights with American people on one page with Japanese tourist attractions and Japanese people on the facing page. View More...
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. It introduces 99 artworks of paintings and sculptures that remain in Soto-Sect Zen Buddhist temples in Yamaguchi and Kyushu. It comprehensively defines the superb Zen culture that expanded in these areas in the Kamakura period (1192-1333). 176 pages. Text in Japanese. Captions to photos in Japanese and English. View More...
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 113 pages. 8 1/4"w x 11 5/8"h. Exhibition catalog for a show that appeared in Russia, England, France, and Germany. The ukiyo-e prints of the Edo period represented here includes portraits of mother and chld, depecitions of customs and games, children's prints, and omacha-e. View More...
Large silk-covered clamshell boxed set of eleven out of fourteen loose prints, each individually matted and backed with paper. Box is 13 1/2"w x 17 5/8"h. Orange cloth covered slipcase shows wear and fraying at edges. Prints are in excellent condition. Twenty page booklet with an introduction and descriptions of each of the plates. The included prints are Youth Secretly handing a Love-letter to his beloved and The Beauty Hinatsura with two Maidens near a Snowman by Suzuki Harunobu; Cat at a Fish-Bowl and Boy with a Mouse by Isoda Koryusai; Female Portrait and Tiger in the Bamboo by Kita... View More...
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 300 pages, book draws"out the implication of Kuzo Uno's theories, and developes a powerful paradigm that resolves many of the conroversies in Marxist theory. View More...
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription. A detailed history of the Japanese print, arranged by period. 5"w x 7"h. 230 pages of text, followed by 48 b&w illustrations. View More...
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is price clipped, shows signs of shelf wear, 1" tear upper front cover. View More...
No dust jacket. Slightly soiled full red cloth boards. Tight Japanese-stab binding. Black and white illustrations. 29 pages. 4 1/2"w x 6 5/8"h. Explanations of each of the signs of the Japanese zodiac, faced with black and white drawings. The Japanese zodiac has a cycle of 12 years unlike people of the West who divide their zodiac in a cycle of 12 months. Each year of the cycle has its own particular animal symbol whose roots of meaning, origin, and influence stretch back to ancient India and China. Printed on different colors of paper folded so each page is double. View More...
Japanese stab-binding in silk cloth-covered stiff silvery/gray decorative paper wraps.Title laid on front cover and spine of slipcase. Ex-library stamps inside, but no marks on cover. No date indicated - circa 1930's. In tattered ex-library marked blue slipcase, torn at top of spine, with bone closures. Printed on double pages of rice paper flecked with sparkly mica. Black and white illustrations with occasional spots of color. Corner of first blank page cut out. View More...
Book has grey boards and silver gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior has underlining (see photo). Dust jacket shows slight signs of shelf wear only, no tears, price sticker at front. Four fold-out pages in b&w with 9 plates are intact and as new. View More...
Book show tiny nicks to the corner of the pictorial boards; otherwise as new in excellent condition in every respect with a straight spine, square, solid binding, text/interior is clean, neat and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears, not price clipped. 'Rises above many of its competitors, thanks to its ambitious scope.The book's photos and illustrations are frequently stunning.Gallagher's writing style is straightforward and articulate, with so much intelligence and grace, it's difficult not to be charmed.'--'Publishers Weekly' Take a fascinating p... View More...
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