Asahi nenkan 1946 朝日年鑑昭和21年
Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha 朝日新聞社, 1946. 335p., stiff red wraps moderately worn. First post-war edition of the yearbook published by Asahi Simbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. More
Cat.No: 142252
Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha 朝日新聞社, 1946. 335p., stiff red wraps moderately worn. First post-war edition of the yearbook published by Asahi Simbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. More
Cat.No: 142252
Tokyo: Kokuritsu Daigaku Hoken Kanri Shisetsu Kyogikai Eizu Tokubetsu Iinkai, 1993. Paperback. 160p., text in Japanese, very good trade paperback in wraps. Issued by the Consortium on Health Facilities at National Universities, this book targets post-secondary educators. An opening chapter surveys AIDS around the world and in Japan (including discussion..... More
Cat.No: 157026
Tokyo: Spartacst Group Japan, 1982-2004. 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), a...... More
Cat.No: 261408
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. Oversized Paperback. xlvii, 510 p. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, side-stapled. Stamped "Classification Removed...1946" on front cover. Covers soiled and browned with wear to edges. Pages age-toned. Notations and some circling of words in red pencil to pages. More
Cat.No: 207410
Belmont, CA: n.pub. 1973. 39p., staplebound booklet, covers mildly foxed with a sunned area on front cover, staples rusted. Collection of poems in Japanese with Romanized transliteration. More
Cat.No: 215538
Belmont, CA: n.pub. 1973. 39p., staplebound booklet, covers mildly worn, internal rubberstamp of an activist library. Collection of poems in Japanese with Romanized transliteration. More
Cat.No: 249684
Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros. [194-]. [533p.], very good hardcover. Wartime facsimile copy of the Japanese original (Saishin Chuka Minkoku Manshu Teikoku jinmei chimei benran), for use by US War Department. More
Cat.No: 244297
Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai 日本放送出版協会, 1986. Paperback. 181p., text in Japanese, illustrated with b&w photos and figures, very good trade paperback edityion in white Frenchfold wraps and orange wraparound band. Abe was at the time of writing the director of the Teikoku Daigaku Medical School and a major consulting..... More
Cat.No: 153380
Tokyo: Bukkumansha ブックマン社, 2002. Paperback. 220p., text in Japanese, illustrated with photos, very good paperback in pictorial wraps;. Author is a professional motor-boat racer, born in Osaka. The book explains the author’s early sense of being male in spite of being born biologically female and traces his successful attempt to..... More
Cat.No: 167169
Matsudo: Nihon Puranningu Senta 日本プランニングセンター, 1996. Paperback. 273p., very good in wraps; text in Japanese. The front cover has a youthful photo and recommendation of the book from Kan Naoto, then a Diet representative, now Prime Minister. Aoki was a specialist working in the National Health Institute's AIDS information Center..... More
Cat.No: 153375
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1986. Paperback. xi, 162 p; very good in wraps. Text in Japanese. Iwanami gendai sensho series, no. NS 550. Introduces the nature of the AIDS virus, discusses its spread; notes various forms of AIDS; chapter on encounters with AIDS patients; describes scene at an AIDS clinic..... More
Cat.No: 150858
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1987. Paperback. xi, 162 p; very good in wraps, second printing. Text in Japanese. Iwanami gendai sensho series, no. NS 550. Introduces the nature of the AIDS virus, discusses its spread; notes various forms of AIDS; chapter on encounters with AIDS patients; describes scene at an..... More
Cat.No: 153322
Tokyo: Bunkasha ぶんか社, 2013. Paperback. 135p., text in Japanese, manga strips, very good trade paperback comic book in wraps and matching dj. Presented as a comic (B&W and some color), the book discusses sekumai (sexual minorities) in Japan focusing specifically on gender. Author and manga artist Arai grew up as..... More
Cat.No: 202970
Jeremy Thomas, 1983. [28p] includes covers, 8.25x11.75 inches, texts in Eglish and Japanese [both read right to left on pages] illustrated with b&w and color film stills including a full-color centerfold spread of the two stars, cast and crew info and bios, lightly-handled booklet in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 262280
Tokyo: Futami Shobo 二見書房, 1989. 291p., lots of photos half of which in color; very good in 6.5x4 inch wraps with a printed sash-band; text in Japanese. On mystery, or "crop circles" cut into standing agricultural fields. Translated from Pat Delgado's book, "Circular Evidence" More
Cat.No: 193821
no place: Self-published by the author as dPress, 2003. Pamphlet. [14p]5.5x8.25 inches, spot-color decorations, rice-paper endsheets, text in Japanese characters, romanized Japanese, and English, very good chapbook in sewn wraps and matching folder which is edgeworn. After leaving the Berkeley Street Poets and Moe's Books Denner ran a small bookstore..... More
Cat.No: 219292
Tokyo: Futtowaaku Shuppan フットワーク出版, 1993. Paperback. 180, 18p., illustrated with cartoon figures, text in Japanese, very good reprint paperback in green pictorial wraps. The author was an internist for the Kinki area Health Center. The preface urges readers to not make the mistake of considering themselves immune while at the..... More
Cat.No: 153382
South San Francisco: Heian, 1983. 266p., very good hardcover, mildly worn dj; Japanese-langage edition of "Out of the mud grows the lotus." Brief explanatory printed letter from the author's widow is laid in, giving a San Leandro address. The minister from the Buddhist Churches of America discusses his work with..... More
Cat.No: 190650
Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo 筑摩書房, 1988. Paperback. 201p., text in Japanese, very good trade paperback in wraps. Discusses AIDS, drug use, and bioethics. Contents drawn mainly from Time magazine articles from the 1980s - selections are reprinted in English, translated, glossed, and then explained and commented upon in Japanese. Contains extensive..... More
Cat.No: 163256
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1987. Paperback. 62p., text in Japanese, very good slim trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Iwanami bukkuretto series, no.89. Author was a television producer of health and medicine related programs for NHK (Japan's public broadcasting), he also consulted with Ministry of Health. Written after the first wave..... More
Cat.No: 150838
Tokyo: Hakubikan Shuppan, 1987. Paperback. 206p., text in Japanese, very good paperback in wraps. Opens with discussion of cases of AIDS dementia in Japan; the disease is explained as being from the US which is at the front lines of AIDS; includes translation of latest sex manuals from US for..... More
Cat.No: 162830
Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitatsverlag, 1952. 123p., sewn textblock in 9.5x6.5 inch tobacco-brown wraps printed sepia, mild external wear and toning, underlines on the Vorwort page, an otherwise good clean copy. Bibliothek der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft herausgegeben von Hans Krahe. Some basic features of Japanese language-structure demonstrated with practical examples. More
Cat.No: 170132
Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai 日本放送出版協会, 1994. Paperback. 248p., text in Japanese, very good paperback in wraps with head-scratching photo from Berlin AIDS meeting on cover [clowns in red noses and Superman suit] NHK Bukkusu 692. The author is a social psychologist whose research is in disasters, catastrophes and their..... More
Cat.No: 157016
Tokyo: Nihon Iryo Kikaku 日本医療企画, 1988. Hardcover. 330 p., text in Japanese, illustrations, very good second printing hardcover with dj. The author traveled to the US in 1954, lived in Chicago studying cardio surgery for 3 years. After starting a teaching career in Japan, returned to US in 1959 and..... More
Cat.No: 150832