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Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 Singer, Robert T.
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Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868


Singer, Robert T.

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.

Record # 471525


Price: $63.00 

 

Canadian Woman Missionaries at Toyo Eiwa in Japan 1882-2006


Ariga, Seiichi &Wayne Irwin

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856903


Price: $25.00 

 

Nobility of Failure, The : Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan


Morris, Ivan

Softcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3rd printing, 1988-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462543


Price: $25.00 

 

Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan


Hall, John W./Marius B. Jansen

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear with small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607985


Price: $15.00 

 

Historians' History of the World - Volume XXIV - Poland, The Balkans, Turkey, Minor Eastern States, China, Japan


Williams, LL.D., Henry Smith

Hardcover. New York, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. Hardcover. Volume XXIV only. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613136


Price: $63.00 

 

History of Japan, 1615-1867, A


Sansom, George

Hardcover. Stanford, Stanford Univ. Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos

Record # 57764


Price: $35.00 

History of Writing in Japan, A Seeley, Christopher
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History of Writing in Japan, A


Seeley, Christopher

Hardcover. Leiden Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 403098


Price: $180.00 

 

Age of Visions and Arguments, The: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan


Kim, Kyu Hyun

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.

Record # 405495


Price: $31.00 

Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan by: Vlastos, Stephen
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Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan by: Vlastos, Stephen

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454161
Price: $12.00 

 

Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II


Rees, Laurence

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Light wear to edges of cover and dust jacket. Inside is nice and clean, with b&w photographs.

Record # 455580


Price: $12.00 

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by: Hastings, Max
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by: Hastings, Max

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Knopf, 4th printing, 2008-03-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 615 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463923
Price: $12.00 

 

Making of Modern Japan, The


Jansen, Marius B.

Hardcover. US, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2000-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 871 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464193


Price: $35.00 

Japan We Never Knew, The: A Journey of Discovery Suzuki, David
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Japan We Never Knew, The: A Journey of Discovery


Suzuki, David

Hardcover. Toronto, Stoddart Pub, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471780


Price: $15.00 

 

Western World and Japan, The


Sansom, G. B.

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.

Record # 608127


Price: $12.00 

 

Japanese Folk Textiles - An American Collection (Japanese & English Text)


White (Editor), Fifi

Softcover. Japan, Shikosha, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages. Softcover with french flaps. Japanese & English text throughout. Striking full page, full color illustrations throughout featuring wide variety of folk textiles & artisans including ikat, fireman's garments, kyogen costumes, paper, tie-dye & stencil dye among other garments. Crisp, unmarked & bright copy.

Record # 750840


Price: $38.00 

 

Social Change and the Individual: Japan Before and After Defeat in World War II


Tsurumi, Kazuko

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st thus, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 441 pages. Purple cloth. Light edgewear, tearing to dust jacket with sunning to rear cover. Light foxing to edges, previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 809825


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Buddhist Japan


Kidder, J. Edward

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.

Record # 851534


Price: $12.00 

 

Japan Expedition, The: 1852-1854 The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry


Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fascinating historical document, edited by Roger Pineau. With an introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison. Many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Price-clipped. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951871


Price: $31.00 

 

With Only the Will to Live - Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps 1941-1945


LaFurte, Robert S. and Ronald E. Marcello and Richard L. Himmel

Hardcover. Wilmington Del., SR Books, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54707


Price: $20.00 

 

Servants, Shiphands and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa, Japan


Leupp, Gary P.

Hardcover. NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, rep., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub. hardcover 1992

Record # 54753


Price: $18.00 

 

Japan Before Buddhism


Kidder, J. Edward

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, revised ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 photos, 65 drawings, 7 maps.

Record # 125599


Price: $35.00 

 

Travels in the Land of the Gods (1898-1907) - The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith


Manthorpe, Victoria (Ed.)

New York , Prentice Hall, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, Color illustrations.

Record # 305324


Price: $25.00 

 

Political Development in Modern Japan


Ward (Ed.), Robert E.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, black cloth covers with red and gilt design on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 403089


Price: $160.00 

 

Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan 1873 - 1922


Nakamura, James I.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages, dust jacket with light wear, fading. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 406280


Price: $15.00