Japan from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Public Affairs Committee, Inc, (1944). First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers, 32pp; illus. Mild aging, with gentle toning to text margins; Very Good. A critique of U.S. policy towards American citizens of Japanese descent in the years following America's entry into WW2. Produced under the auspices of the American Council, Institute of Pacific… Ler mais sobre este item

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 170pp. Small address label inside front cover, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), slightly creased/rolled at spine ends, with small portion of lamination beginning to separate; Very Good. The… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Stanley Paul & Co, (1912). Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's embossed blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; 471pp; 48pp publisher's ads; gravure frontispiece portrait and 65 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Spine rubbed and sun-faded, else moderate rubbing and soil to cloth; internally clean, tight, and complete; Very Good. Ownership signature of a May… Ler mais sobre este item

Dayton: Otterbein Press, (1946). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Previous owner's ink note to front free endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap); slightly edgeworn with brief loss at crown of spine and a small triangular chip to rear panel; Very Good.… Ler mais sobre este item

Ormond Beach: The Doldrums, 1951. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; 26,[4]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, minor marks to rear board, generally Very Good or better. 750 copies printed. [62057].

Billings, MT: Eastern Montana College, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; viii,42pp; illus. Slight separation of covers at bottom 1" of text, else a clean, Very Good or better copy. Exhibition of drawings, caricatures and paintings by Benjamin Charles Steele, long-time Professor of Art at Estern Montana University and a former prisoner of war during WW2.

Tokyo: Fuji Color Photo Company, Ltd, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Pictorial flexible boards; single leaf of text (bilingual, English & Japanese) with ten mounted 35mm color transparencies. About fine. Eighth in a series of similar photographic books from Fuji, each containing 10 color transparencies on a different theme. According to the rear cover, the… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (31cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 323pp, illus. Fine in fine jacket; bookplate inside front cover of Smithsonian curator James G. Mead.

London: The Hakluyt Society, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xlii],428pp; black and white illus. Straight, sturdy, and bright, with spotting to top and fore-edges of textblock, not affecting interior: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, Very Good or better. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 7.

[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States,… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's beige cloth, in dust jacket; xii,251pp; color plates throughout. Straight, fresh copy: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Tight, straight copy, Near Fine, in price-clipped but otherwise Near Fine jacket. An attractive copy of Endo's critically-acclaimed sixth novel, winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize. Translated by Van C. Gessel, and including a brief Translator's Note by him.

Geneva: Geneva Research Information Committee, 1931. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound, printed thick paper wrappers; 34pp. Moderate external soiling and wear, with corner-creasing and a few brief nicks to wrapper margins; Very Good. Day-by-day review of the League's actions in the first weeks of the Sino-Japanese War, beginning with the Mukden Incident, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria,… Ler mais sobre este item

Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; [24pp]. Small spot of discoloration to rear cover, else Near Fine. Gifford's seventh published book, a collection of short lyrics mostly composed in Japan in 1975.

Berkeley: North Point Press, 1989. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's white printed card wrappers; xxvi,[2],175pp.; double-page chart in rear. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities and the whole rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Advance uncorrected reading copy with promotional literature laid in. Collection of poems and sermons by the 14th-century Japanese Buddhist monk.

London: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 330pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new.

[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching text without loss of sense, some uneven toning, else Very Good. Contents include lectures by Dainin Katagiri-roshi, Tenshin (Reb) Anderson, Sojun Mel Weitsman, and Shunryu Suzuki-roshi.

Tokyo: Subterraneans Books, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 15pp. Inscribed on title page: "For my great friend Harry Smith / Menke," dated 1967 and with a small doodle of some flowers. Small scuff and a bit of dusting to wrappers, else Near Fine. Twelve short pieces by the Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet. Bilingual text in facing English… Ler mais sobre este item

[Los Angeles: Peoples Action Union, n.d. but 1975?]. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into eight-panelled pamphlet; illus. and text printed in brown. Light wear from handling, extremities a bit toned, else Very Good. Brochure promoting the upcoming 21st World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of March,… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1918. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 292pp, frontis., 36 plates, 2 fold-out maps. Spine and portion of rear panel sunned; dampstains and light soiling; leading corners bumped. Textblock top edge stained blue, faded; damping and toning throughout; pastedowns wrinkled. Else, Very Good. The… Ler mais sobre este item