Akiyama, Aisaburo

Sights of Old Capital

Japan Tourist Bureau. Cloth Boards. 8vo. 3rd edition. Includes 3 woodcuts, many illustrations, and a large fold-out map. Green cloth boards with faded gilt title to spine and faded gilt illustration to front board. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. Rubbing to boards. Interior is very clean with bright text. Stamp from previous owner to front pastedown and to first page of text; stamp does not effect text. There is also a small slip of paper pasted down to front pastedown. Book is side-stapled, then bound into boards. Crack to front hinge just after title page. Binding remains secure. Full color woodcuts are pasted down. In English. 149 pp. JAP/020205. Very Good.

Barr, Pat

The Deer Cry Pavilion

London: Macmillan, 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good hardcover with like dustjacket. Illustration section in center of book. Japanese History. JAP/2043. Very Good.

Chamberlin, William Henry

Japan Over Asia

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1937. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Very good in brown cloth covered boards with blue title to front and spine panels. Crack to front hinge though binding is still tight. Interior is cleand bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 395 pages. Japan. JAP/050212. Very Good.

Choate, Pat

Agents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System. 1st Edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hard Cover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./295 pp. Japanese History. JAP2/4192. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Craig, William

The Fall of Japan

New York: The Dial Press, 1967. Cloth Boards. 8vo. Red cloth boards with black title to spine. Interior is very clean with tight binding. Illustrated. Red dj with white title to spine and front panel. Closed tear to front panel of fj. 363 pp. JAPAN/102805. Very Good in Very Good dj.

Embree, John F.

The Japanese Nation: A Social Survey

New York: Rinehart & Company, (1945). Hard Cover. 4to. Very good in very good- grey dust jacket with orange title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 308 pages. Japan. JAP/062912. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

Chats on Japanese Prints

London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1928. Hard Cover. Fifth impression of Ficke's well known book on Japanese prints. Tipped in are a Japanese woodcut print and a one page handwritten letter from Ficke to "Helene." Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945) was a poet and lawyer who was from a wealthy family in Iowa. His father imported Japanese prints, and Ficke had a lifelong interest in this art. His poetry had lost its signicance, and he is best known today for his extremely close relationship with Edna St. Vincent Millay and his expertise on Japanese art. The woodcut is 7.25 x 5 inches. In color, depicting a scribe pondering over a long sheet of paper with his pen in the air. There are several lines of Japanese writing. Siled but otherwise in very good condition. The letter, dated May 28, 1937, is about the authenticity of a print and factors considered in determining this. He closes by saying if the print were genuine, it would be a great treasure and would command a price of many hundreds if dollars. He signs it, "Arthur." The interior pages are clean and bright with title, author and publisher in black to spine and front board. Bound in black cloth with slight bumping and rubbing, and a dark outline of a circle on the front cover as though a glass had been set upon it. In a brown dustjacket with author, title, and publisher in black on spine and front cover. It also states that the book is part of a series of handbooks for collectors. Some chipping and nicks to corners and top and bottom of spine but still very good. Bookplate of Inez and Carl Kinney. 456 pages including index. ASIANART/120211. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hajime, Ikenaga

Exotic Art of Japan. "Hosaibankwa Daihokan"

Circa 1930. Cloth Boards. 4to. "An Outline of Exotic Art of Japan" translated by Inada Hogitaro. The books are in Japanese but an 18 page supplement provides a partial translation and clearly identifies most of the prints/artists (if known). The art works included are termed exotic because they show the influence of the West on Japanese art. There is a brief, chronological discussion by historical period on the influence of the Christian religion, European painting and culture, among other factors. There are several hundred plates, printed on various types of paper and using varying techniques. The plates include art work by Odano Naotake, Utagawa Toyoharu, Kitagawa Utamaro, Takahashi Yuichi, Katsushika Hokusai, Kitao Masami, and many more. Textured blue cloth boards with gilt title to front boards. Minor fading to spines and minor wear to edges of boards. Bookplate of J.B. Pabst to front pastedown of both books. A beautiful compilation of Japanese art. JAP/120406. Very Good.

Lahiri, Amar

Japan Talks

Japan: The Hokuseido Press, (1940). Cloth. SCARCE. 8vo. In dark blue cloth covered boards with silver title to spine and front board. Minor overall wear to cloth and slight bowing to boards. Rear hinge starting. Previous owner's stamp to front paste down and to title page. Else very clean and sound with many black and white as well as color illustrations. Original receipt archivally attached to rear free end page. 225 pages. JAP/091405. Very Good.

Maraini, Fosco

Meeting With Japan

New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Hard Cover. VG red boards w/linen binding; VG Dj; photos, drawings throughout; illus. endpapers, 467 pp. Japan. JAP/10212. Very Good.

Morris, Ivan

The World of the Shining Prince. Court Life in Ancient Japan.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. VG+ lavender & gilt boards; pages very clean, text very bright; 8vo.; 336 pp. Japanese History. JAP/12202. Very Good.

Nitobe, Inazo

Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, (2004). Paperback. 8vo. Fine illustrated paper wrappers with black title to spine. Index, 113 pages. JAP/061412. Fine.

Roberts, Laurance P.

The Connoisseur's Guide to Japanese Museums.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1967. Hard Cover. 12mo. Very good+ in very good orange & white illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor fading to bottom edge of jacket. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations. Index, 239 pages. Japan. JAP/1103. Very Good + in Very Good DJ.