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

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

Cat.No: 207410

Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 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 authority..... More

Cat.No: 153380

Tokyo: the author, 1965. 248p., very good hardcover in lightly worn slipcase; text in Japanese. Published in English translation as "Song of a prisoner," these are poems composed while the author was in prison towards the end of World War II. More

Cat.No: 184806

Matsudo: Nihon Puranningu Senta, 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. He... More

Cat.No: 153375

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 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 AIDS... More

Cat.No: 153322

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

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

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

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

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

Cat.No: 202969

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