First Blows: Britain's Fight Against Japan
New York: British Information Services, 1945. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8 inches, illus., staples rusted else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288470
New York: British Information Services, 1945. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8 inches, illus., staples rusted else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288470
New York: Information Office, Consulate General of Japan, 1960. [24p.] 8.5x7 inches oblong, illustrations, poem by Walt Whitman on inside covers ("A Broadway Pageant") very good in stapled green wraps. Memorial booklet. More
Cat.No: 165721
Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1978. [20p] 4.25x11 inches, illustrations, very good exhibition checklist in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 148773
Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 6x9.25 inches, very good. Issued on the award of the medal to Tanaka Ichimatsu for his scholarship on Japanese art. Includes brief biography and acceptance speech, frontispiece photo in black and white. More
Cat.No: 140056
Richmond, VA: Libertarian International, 1985. 54p., staplebound wraps, very good. Includes a piece by Ken Schooland on the history of libertarian ideas in Japan, and Gene Berkman on South Africa, arguing that libertarians must condemn apartheid. More
Cat.No: 260101
College Park MD: Feminist Studies, Inc., 1999. Paperback. Pp.529 to 756 (i.e., about 125 pages) plus "books received" and vitae; plain printed softbound in red & white 9x6 inch wraps, a nice clean copy. Amongst essays offered here find the featured cover article, Kathleen Brown's The "Savagely Fathered and Un-Mothered..... More
Cat.No: 282289
Kyoto: Kyoto-fu Kyoikucho Shakai Kyoikuka 京都府敎育庁社会敎育課, 1959. 114p., paperback, pages toned, chip at bottom of spine; gift inscription of the sociologist Shigematsu Toshiashi at top of front cover. More
Cat.No: 214706
San Francisco: Japan Society of San Francisco; Consulate General of Japan, with the cooperation of the Society for Asian Art and the San Francisco Ballet, 1959. Pamphlet. [16p.], staplebound wraps, overwrap of Japanese Haruki paper with printed title, untrimmed edges, very good condition. Program for the event, including several ads..... More
Cat.No: 204904
Tokyo: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- u. Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1933. 20p. slender paperback, mild toning. Text in German. Also included is an edgeworn booklet listing members and their addresses from 1934. Historical overview of the German Society for the Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia, one of the earlier foreign..... More
Cat.No: 221638
Tokyo: Dai Nippon Printing, 1988. Pamphlet. 55p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with color photographs, very good condition. Text in both Japanese and English. Overview of the Gallery's showings. More
Cat.No: 146018
Tokyo: Dai Nippon Printing, 1989. Pamphlet. [48p.], stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with color photographs, very good condition. Text in both Japanese and English. Overview of the Gallery's showings. More
Cat.No: 146016
n.pub. n.d. Woodblock print. 10x14.5 inch woodblock print, corner tear at lower right, some spots of soil including a saucer ring at lower middle. More
Cat.No: 298428
San Jose: San Jose Nikkei Matsuri & Yempuku-Yoshinaga Enterprisesn Jose, 1981. 36p., 8.5x11 inches, program illustrated with photos and ads, 4 tournement tickets taped to inside cover (obliterating ad) also taped over ads are 12 color 4x6 inch photographs taken at the tournement by the previous owner and 4 autograps..... More
Cat.No: 166054
Tokyo: Spartacist Group Japan, 1982-2004. Newsletter. Group of newsletters and pamphlets from the Trotskyist group, generally issued under the title Suparutashisuto スパルタシスト, a Japanese transliteration of "Spartacist." Includes a series of local reprints of articles from Workers Vanguard translated into Japanese (nos. 1-33, missing 9, with 4/5 a double issue)..... More
Cat.No: 261408
[Japan]: Zenkoku Sotoshu Seinenkai, 1984. Paperback. 135p., lightly worn wraps, 7.75x11.5 inches, illustrated with color and black and white photographs of the stone Buddhas found in outdoor rural settings in various parts of Japan. Text in Japanese; gift inscription neatly written on title page. More
Cat.No: 158566
Tokyo: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 東京国立博物館, 1959. Hardcover. 6, 110 p, very good hardcover with edgeworn dust jacket, 8.5x12 inches, edges lightly foxed, thoroughly illustrated with B&W photos. Text mostly in Japanese, with English list of exhibits. More
Cat.No: 139575
n.p. [Ikenobo School], 1957. Thrice-folded certificate in brushstroke calligraphy, awarded to Carolyn Pasho in Showa year 32 (1957), in a thin folded case, in recognition of her achievements in this school of traditional Japanese flower arrangement. Also included, in a paper wrapper with Pasho's name, is one of the series..... More
Cat.No: 253599
Kyoto: Ikenobo, nd. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., staples rusted, a few spots of silverfishing on front wrap, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 308614
Kyoto: Ikenobo, nd. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., staples rusted, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 308634
Tokyo: Kasutoriadeisu kenkyukai, 2009. 45p., 5.75x8.25 inches, very good in wraps, text in Japanese. Critique of capitalism by followers of Castoriadis. More
Cat.No: 167226
Oakland: Japan Cultural Festival, 1956. Paperback. 23p., string-bound wraps, 7x10 inches, profusely illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good exhibition catalog. More
Cat.No: 319321
Tokyo: Nihon Bijistsuhin seri-u shushiki kaisha, 1971. Unpaginated paperback catalog for an auction, mostly Western artists, photos mostly b&w, some in color. Many prices realized are hand-written on the plates. Titles and artists in English, most other text in Japanese. More
Cat.No: 232024
Tokushima: Church Missionary Society, Japan Mission, 1940. 32p., slender booklet format, mild edgewear and toning. Updates on missionary activities in Japan, with several black and white photos. Includes discussion of expected legislation regulating religious organizations under the militarist government; it betrays some anxiety about what is to come, but expresses..... More
Cat.No: 260883
San Francisco: Japan Letter Publishers, 1954-1957. Newsletter. Thirty-four issues of the 8.5x11 inch mimeographed newsletter published by peace activists, illustrated with drawings and some black and white photos. Some issues have toned covers; a few have a penciled note such as "Communist front" in the corner of the front cover..... More
Cat.No: 306273
San Francisco: Japan Letter Publishers, 1956. Newsletter. 8p. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed newsletter published by peace activists, illustrated with drawings. Minor toning, very good. This newsletter generally printed translations of articles from the Japanese press (largely leftist, but some from conservative papers as well). This issue is devoted to articles about..... More
Cat.No: 307245