Softcover. Shigaraki, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover in Japanese & English text. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light sunning to left margin & top edge of wraps. Light wear to edges. Preliminary page has faint foxing to one edge, top edge lightly foxed. Faint tone to edges of pages throughout. However, this does not touh the illustrations. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Else clean, unmarked.
Softcover. Baltimore, MD, The John Hopkins University Press, First Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean text with tight binding & sharp corners. A nice copy.
Softcover. Japan, The American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 96 oversize pages featuring 64 color plates. Appendix containing artist biographies. Beautiful cover includes detailed look at "Water Lily and Moth" by John La Farge. Slight wrinkles on lower section of binding edge. Sturdy taupe endpages protect a fine interior.
Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 161-320, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Coast Range 1954, Climbing in the Japanese Alps, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Hike, Avalanche Research, others. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Honolulu Academy Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to dust jacket, minor bump to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Tokyo, The Japan Foundation, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Approx. 110 pages. Color plates throughout. Calligraphy on tissue before title page. Light brown pictorial cover with pink spine. Article about exhibition laid-in. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover. Full color tipped-in plates throughout. Tan cloth hardcover with tipped-in plate (has fallen off and is laid in) to front cover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dj and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Arts of Asia Publications, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art periodical in color wrappers. Illustrated in color and b&w. Articles on: MOA Museum of Art at Atami, Yokohama Prints, Aesthetics of Tsuba, Tatsuzo Shimaoka Japanese Potter, Miniatures of Japanese Bamboo Art, Betel Leaf Holders. Book and auction reviews, gallery ads, collector's column.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Arts of Asia Publications, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art periodical in color wrappers. Illustrated in color and b&w. Articles on: Chinese Paintings in the British Museum, The Amaravati Marbles, Japanese Swords, High Life in Mosul in 1232 A.D., Silver Decoration on a Chinese Lacquered Box. Book and auction reviews, gallery ads, collector's column.
Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Hardcover. Full color frontis. Black & white illustrations. Price clipped dust jacket with short tape repaired tears at edges. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Amsterdam, Christie's , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 lots, illustrated in color. Softcover with minor wear to covers and spine else in very good condition.
Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 154 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 182 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
S. Brunswick, A. S. Barnes, 1st US, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. color, B&W photos. Light chipping, short closed tear to dust jacket
Hardcover. Rutland, Vt., Tuttle Pub, 1st pr, December 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, color illustrations throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 379 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only light wear to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. Illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only light wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. US, Weatherhill, 1st, 1986-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row Publishers, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gallery price tag on cover. In great shape for its age. Just a small bit of smudging on front flyleaf. Beautiful full-page color plates. Artist illustrations on front and back covers. From the front flap: "The whole of the colorful and boisterous history of ukiyo-e-- the art of Japanese woodblock prints that arose in the seventeenth century and declined in the nineteenth--can be virtually summarized in the works of two great artists, Okumura Masanobu and Katsushika Hokusai. ...Of the two, Masanobu (1686-1764) was undoubtedly the more influential, for he was the major artistic force of the formative years of the art... This book, which presents a concise overview of Masanobu's life and works, is the first in the English language to be devoted solely to this early master."
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This lavishly produced catalog accompanies an exhibition of Edo-era art at the National Gallery in Washington. Edo, as Tokyo was known before 1868, was the cradle of a bold aesthetic that blurred the boundaries between traditional artistic disciplines and flourished in the centuries of national isolation enforced by the Tokugawa shogunate. Led by Robert T. Singer, curator of Japanese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a team of scholars has assembled an impressive array of painting, ceramics, lacquer, textiles, woodblock prints, armor, and sculpture; many pieces have never been seen outside Japan. Rather than displaying the works by medium, the curators have chosen to divide them thematically into six groups: Ornament; Samurai; Work; Religion and Festivals; Travel, Landscape, and Nature; and Entertainment. Each section is introduced with an essay and packed with color plates, more than 300 in all.
 "Art of Shibata Zeshin: The Mr. and Mrs. James E O'Brien CollectionO'Brien, Mary Louise")
 "Collecting Modern Japanese Prints Then & NowTolman, Mary")
 "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868Singer, Robert T.")