Kyoto: the museum, 1986. Paperback. 414p., profuse exhibit photography, exclusively in color, each image extensively captioned and facing a verso page of further text. Softbound, a substantial catalogue on coated alkaline paperstock. Externally mildly edgeworn with subtle signs of handling, but quite sound and presentable; internally we see only one... More about Catalogue of the Collection; Selected Works in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, October...

Cat.No: 235637

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 about Japanese readings for Chinese place names, arranged by Chinese readings War Department. Technical...

Cat.No: 207410

San Francisco; printed in Japan: Aoki Taiseido, 1916. 225p., very good hardcover, bilingual text. Letter-writing manual with sample texts reflecting a wide variety of circumstances encountered by Japanese living in the United States. Includes samples of legal documents. More about Nijisseiki Ei-Wa Shokanbun Taisei / 20th Century Anglo-Japanese Letter Writing

Cat.No: 218111

Tokyo: Joho Senta Shuppankyoku, 1992. Hardcover. 47p., 5.25x7.5 inches, text in Japanese and English, very good hardcover in dj. A bilingual edition by poster artist Akiyama, who created the "Condom Boy" and"“AIDS virus boy" characters as part of an awareness campaign for AIDS prevention. In the introduction, Akiyama explains how..... More about Rabu ando eizu / Love & AIDS

Cat.No: 153453

Tokyo: Bukkumansha, 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 relaunch..... More about Suk to o haita sh nen: k shite watakushi wa boku ni natta [[The boy in a skirt: in this way...

Cat.No: 167169

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 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 in... More about Atarashii nanbyo eizu [The new serious disease of AIDS]

Cat.No: 150858

Tokyo: Kabushiki kaisha Shinchosha, 2006. Paperback. Two volumes in stiff paper case, 213 and 92 pages respectively, very good in wraps. Text in English and Japanese. Catalog of the exhibition held at Miho Museum and three other museums in Japan, Sept. 1, 2006 - August 19, 2007. More about Aoyama Jiro no me / Aesthetic Eyes of Aoyama Jiro

Cat.No: 152076

Tokyo: Daiyamondo-sha, 2007. 250p., very good paperback in wraps. Text in Japanese. Paperback with intact obi (noting that the book is adapted from a blog that is about a true, and forbidden, story). Based on the story of a Japanese woman in her early 30s who lived in Tokyo, the... More about Otto ga otoko ni koi o shita [My husband fell in love with a man]

Cat.No: 151282

no place: dPress, 2003. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 15p., sewn fascicle, spot-color decorations, rice-paper endsheets, pamphlet in 8x5 inch fancy wraps enclosed in matching folder. Text in Japanese characters, romanized Japanese, and English. Folder is edgeworn, booklet is very good to fine. Denner ran a small bookstore in Washington state he... More about Pebbles [cover title]; Koshi / Pebbles [title page]. Calligraphy & typography by Shogo Oketani

Cat.No: 219292

Tokyo: Futtowaaku Shuppan, 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 same... More about AIDS!?: Saa doshiyo: yobo no tame no kiso chishiki AIDS!? [AIDS?! What should we do? Fundamental...

Cat.No: 153382

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 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 comparisons... More about Amerika zasshi de seimei no kiki o yomu [Matters of Life and Death: AIDS, Narcotics and...

Cat.No: 163256

Tokyo: Shueisha, 2008. Hardcover. 460p., text in Japanese, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj with original white printed band intact. A suspense novel, one of the first in Japan to take up the theme of gender ambiguity, hermaphroditism, and intersex. More about Intasekkusu [Intersex]

Cat.No: 202969