Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, The Wayward Press, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 98 pages. Contains cartoons of the Vietnam War by Ken Melvin. Light soiling and edgewear to covers.
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. Minneapolis MN, Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Softcover, 48 pages plus illustrated wraps. Twelve chromolithographed illustrations by Alice Sargent Johnson with a blank plate to be colored opposing, and detailed, careful instructions for step by step Japanese watercolor application, specific to each illustration, rather fine tips for painting. A promotional available with coupon found in each bag of Ceresota Bread Flour. The line illustrations are uncolored. The spine has been reinforce with a strip of clear tape. Small name stamp to cover, several pages, in margins not affecting plates. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Some light, scattered pencil markings.
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. 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. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Mustard cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover board. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Decorated endpapers. In beautiful, like-new condition. Lyrical, rooted and intimate, Autumn Light gives us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Demi. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company , 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading/discoloration to spine and upper covers. Old library code painted to lower front cover corner. Inscription in pen on front end papers, "August 1951". Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo News Service, Ltd, 2nd Printing, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages, with 132 detailed color illustrations by Shigezo Kobayashi, as well as black & white photographs, different charts and maps. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise, tight, bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia Univewrsity Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature presents an insight into his career as a writer and translator. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, which is enclosed in a plastic protective sleeve. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.