Hardcover. US, Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1st, 1975-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Text in English and Japanese. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight fraying and tearing to upper edge of spine.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Sepia illustrations by author throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on blue on spine and gilt title on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, has some tanning from age, covered in protective plastic. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Lovejoy Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 494 pages, giant folio, 12" x 19", publisher's original raw silk cloth with white lettering silkscreened on front board and spine. Omitted plate by Gakutei tipped in at rear. Biographies and color illustrations by 74 master Japanese artists. Number 147 of 1050 copies. Beautiful condition.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Fading on the spine and covers, slight foxing on top of text block. Annotation/underlining in Introduction, name of former owner in pen on front end papers.
New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Paris, Actes Sud, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in French and English. 105 pages+ index. Illustrated throughout in color. Minor rubbing to pictorial covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages plus ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners inscriptions on inside front cover and front endpaper. Interior clean and tight. Slight fading to spine.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 391 pages. Yellow and purple boards, orange cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket. Front inside flap of dust jacket bent, pages crisp and unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Slight chipping to top and bottom spine, front corners. Price clipped.
New York, McFarlane, Warde, McFarlane, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 plates on Japanese sculpture. Black & white photos. Inside very good. Spine faded, gilt lettering. Incomplete dust jacket tucked in inside cover. Scuffed corners. Previous owner named in frontpages.
Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, Sanseido, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, plates of manuscripts translated included, fabric softcover; foxing evident on front pages, wear to edges and corners of cover, ex-library copy with stamp on top page edges.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David Godine / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of 18th and 19th century Japanese woodblock prints in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 334 pgs. color, black & white Illustrations. Ex-library with usual markings, stamping, but hardly read.
Softcover. Oakland, CA, The Oakland Museum, Art Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with fully illustrated color covers; hardly any wear. Paper wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Transparent flyleaves with a flower design are also crisp. 34 plates, 4 in color, of artist's paintings inspired by and made during his time in Japan. 37 items listed. One b/w plate of artist is in the introduction, which discusses artist's connection to painting Japan and other artists' work on Japan. Brief text on artist's life at back, as well as chronology of this period in the artist's life. 48 pages.
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and cover. Moisture stain in upper right corner of front endpaper. Fold-out map of Japan shows light foxing. Endpapers age faded. Light soiling to front and back covers.
Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 494 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light wear to pictorial stiff wrappers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Books Nippan, March 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated, color photographs throughout. Japanese text. Light edgewear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Foxing to top edge. Closed tears on book jacket with some wear and tear. 336 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, University of Tokyo Press, 1st Eng. Trans., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Translated and with an introduction by Joyce Ackroyd. Dark brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.