Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear with light fading. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt letters to spine. Illustrations in b/w. Dust jacket in very good condition. Bright, clean copy & unmarked.
Hardcover. Neptune City, NJ, T. F. H. Publications, First US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover with bright blue illustrated cover boards. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Academy of Political Science at Columbia University, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages, volume VI, Number 3 of the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York series. Ex-library residue, corner and spine edge fray, bind loose on title page. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Four black-and-white illustrations, including frontispiece. Black-and-white fold-out map, with slight creasing and tearing. Some scratches and rubbing on covers. Fraying of cloth on spine. Minor tear close to front hinge. Very light foxing on fore edge. Small tear on page before map. Good, tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto and Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1st English, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Translated by Annie R. de Wassermann. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and some color photographs of outstanding examples of Japanese lacquerwork. Slight bowing to front panel. Heavy rubbing and edgewear along with slight chips and tears to dust jacket, mostly to top and lower edges. Light age toning and spotting to prelim pages. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Stanford, CA, Standford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Softcover. Normal light wear to covers, otherwise clean and 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. London, England, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover. Decorated slip case, has been mended with tape on bottom. Color and b/w illustrations (some foldout) throughout. Some tanning to edges. Title and copyright pages have a small amount of tape residue. Cover boards bound in green cloth with gilt title on spine and decoration (Japanese characters) on front cover board. Beautiful volume with intricate illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Weatherhill, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing, but is still in good condition overall. Gray paper cover boards with a black cloth spine are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. While drawing freely from personal experiences, literature and popular sources, he also turns to such traditional materials as medieval Japanese social and legal documents, the Talmud, and the Torah in his search for the forces that have shaped the Japanese and the Jew as we know them today. Some of the previous owner's notes and musings are present in black pen on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34507
Softcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1st Ed, 1st Pr., 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book, written by a WW-II veteran and former psychology professor, follows Lonnie Ray, a young man who escapes an unhappy home life and drifts aimlessly across the United States, and, masking his deep fears, Lonnie is captured and becomes one of hundreds of American soldiers held in brutal Japanese POW camps. One black sharpie remainder mark is present on the top edge of the pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34656
Hardcover. Tokyo, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st Eng. transl., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 203 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.
NY, New Directions, 1st, 1962, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Designed and Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. Covers with edgewear, chipping soil and rubbing. Spine detached, but present.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Z.P. Maruya & Co., 1st Revised, 1902, Book: Good, 190 pages, red cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. Front hinges cracked with some light paper loss at gutter. Otherwise, clean internally. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1902 PRINTING, NOT A MODERN PRINT-ON-DEMAND REPRINT.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket with minor tear to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Scarce 1st hardcover. Light sunning to dust jacket spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a very neat, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.
Softcover. Icon, 2nd printing, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear, sunning to pictorial wrappers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2nd printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light edgewear, sunning, rubbing to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.
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