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.
Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Kodansha International, Inc., 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages of text. Many color photographs throughout. Black cloth cover, gilt lettering, light wear. Dust jacket has minor fading and wear to edges. Introduction by Edwin O. Reischauer. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. University of Tokyo Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, Reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows wear with small tears and rubbing along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages, b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Blue top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket, sticker residue on front cover. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. CA, Buddhist Education Center , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, soft cover. Light blue with white text, dark blue spine. Diary of a mortician, invites the reader into the fascinating world of Buddhist spirituality, which sees the extraordinary in things ordinary, mundane, and even repugnant. Clean copy. Record # 33593
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
Hardcover. Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 554 pages. Illustrated with hundreds of full page color and black and white plates of Japanese temples dating from Year 552. Useful bibliography lists books for further study of the title subject at page 549. Folio. Brown silk cloth with gilt titles. Large, heavy volume; extra charges for priority or international shipping.
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, clean, tight copy. Record # 453704
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.
Softcover. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1st , January 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Sweden, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Text clean and bright. Cover shows standard wear.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Oriens Institute , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows wear with small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
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.
 "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 Singer, Robert T.")
 "Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician by: Aoki, Shinmon Transl. by Wayne S. Yokoyama")
 "The Japanese and The Jews by: Ben-Dasan, Isaiah Transl. Gage, Richard L.")
 "Japanese Sense of Self by: Rosenberger, Nancy R. (Editor)")
 "Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism Harootunian, Harry D.")
 "Suye Mura: A Japanese Village Embree, John F.")