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New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1994. 397pp. The best book on Japanese industrial structure in any language. Some light highlighting.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 226pp/illus. 3 color plates, black and white border decorations on all pages, top edge gilt, 2 edges uncut, 225pp, 8vo, color pictorial embossed cloth-covered boards (hardbound). Gift inscription on ffep. Clean.. 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. Illus. by Yeto, Genjiro. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Pr, 1983. 292 pp. Double-page illust. title, over 200 illusts., diagrams, plates. Orange cloth, gilt lettrng on spine (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. First Abbeville edition of this classic work relating how Japanese design and art influenced American cultural life from the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition to the present. Of particular interest are the sections on the various Expositions and Worlds Fairs which aided this movement. The Japanese contributions to the development of the California bungalow are very insightful. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.: Tuttle Pub, 1975. 287 pages, illustrated with 257 plates (55 in full-color) and several fold-out. A fine copy, binding bright, text very fresh and clean, in dust jacket. The jacket is fine fresh and bright. Covers early prints, the beginnings, the primitives, full-color prints, landscape, figure prints and the moderns. Essential reference on landscapes: Hokusai & followers, Toyokuni, minor masters, Hiroshige & figiure prints, and Kiyonobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, minor masters, end of an epoch. Harunobu, Koryu- sai, Buncho, Shunsho, Shunko, Shun'ei, Masanobu, Shigemasa, Toyoharu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Sharaku, Choki, Shuncho, Eishi, Eisho & Shuncho. Clean. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2009. 332pp/illus. History of theJapanese Army. This title looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how thearmy evolved. Clean Like new.. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Press, 1997. 661pp/illus/charts/maps. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the navy's thinking about naval warfare and how to plan for it. Focusing primarily on the much-neglected period between the world wars, two widely esteemed historians persuasively explain how the Japanese failed to prepare properly for the war in the Pacific despite an arguable advantage in capability. Maintaining the highest literary standards and supplemented by a dazzling array of charts, diagrams, drawings, and photographs, this landmark work provides much important information not available in any other English-language source. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near… Leer más

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1984. 346pp. The leading college text for learning Japanese.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. 270pp. The leading college text for learning Japanese.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 2003. 249pp/illus. This work considers several texts, cultural practices and intellectual processes to chart the emergence of a new geographical conciousness in early modern Japan. The study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo, Japan: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1939. Frontispiece and 10 photographic plates. Japanese style binding with printed title-slip, in the original near fine slipcase. [vi], 230pp. Michi Kawai (1877-1953) was the General Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of Japan, presents a very readable autobiography of her extraordinary life: For generations her ancestors had been priests at the Imperial Shrine at Ise. After travelling widely in Europe and America she returned to Japan where in 1929 she founded the Keisen Jo Gaku-en school in Tokyo. Clean copy. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: Univ of California Pr, 1991. 235pp/illus. This ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodana, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Pencil underlining/notations in first chapter.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo, Japan: Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office Japan, 1929. orig. cloth. Title in gilt lettering on spine, with 2 narrow gilt borders at spine-ends. (vi), (ix), [1](list of maps, verso blank), 219pp. ills. on plates, many text-ills, facsim. of the original imperial edict on reconstruction on [4]pp. with tissue-guards, many tables in text and full-p. mainly at end, 6 large fold. maps and plans at end of volume, with loosely inserted the complimentary card of Nozomu Nakagawa, Director of the Bureau of Reconstruction, Home Office, Imperial Japanese Government. A complete official report of the reconstruction of Tokyo & Yokohama, stricken by an earthquate 1st September 1923. It was a gigantic work, unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. The report does not only supply vas information on the technical side of the reconstruction-work but also on the financing of the undertaking by foreign aid from the U.S.A.(US.dollar loan), England, private & commercial reconstruction… Leer más

Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1949. Vol 1 - VG+ 404pp/illus. Vol 2 VG 1,300pp. Overall nice condition. Minimal markings.. 1st Edition. Buckram. Very Good+/No Jacket- Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Random House, 1970. 954 + (1) pp, 65 ills., 7 maps, bibl., index, two-toned brown linen with orig. d.w., col. maps on endpapers. "This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox. DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good(-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1970. 954 + (1) pp, 65 ills., 7 maps, bibl., index, two-toned brown linen with orig. d.w., col. maps on endpapers. "This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox. DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rutland, VT: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1963. Traditionally dressed Sakura dolls illustrated in 35 color photos, with their stories from Japanese lore, plus illustrated instructions on how to make three of the dolls. 96 pp. Autographed by authors. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Pub, 1958. 191pp/illus., bibliography, index, glossary, photos, list of provinces, includes relative values. Hard to find. First complete handbook of the Samurai sword. It covers the origin, development, types, parts, styles, differences in construction, inscriptions, swordsmith, identificataion and value, care & maintenance. Clean. 5th Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Oregon Historical Society Pr, 1991. 287pp/illus/maps. The story of the Japanese sea drifters in the North Pacific. Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

St Petersburg, FL: Broughton International Publications, 1999. red cloth over boards, gold lettering, 384 pgs. plus over 550 illus. in full color. Both the bk. & DJ in like new condition, unclipped. clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1984. 199pp/illus (most color). Clean Excellent condition.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.