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
Pantin (Seine), France: La Vannerie Industrielle, nd. [2], 32p., stapled wraps, 10.75 x 8.5 inches landscape format booklet, chiefly illus., wraps lightly worn, small stain on front wrap, staples rusted else very good condition. Text in French. Catalog of woven baskets and vases for professional florists. Phototypes by the Parisian..... More
Cat.No: 250586
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1954. Hardcover. 55p. + [8] blank pages for notes, illus., corners bumped, else very good condition in a price-clipped and edgeworn dj with several small splash stains on the front panel. More
Cat.No: 320004
San Francisco: Self-published by the author/artist. 2007. Hardcover. 66p., profuse color illustrations reproduced very well, presswork on superb alkaline paperstock and hardbound in oblong 9x11 inch openweave black cloth boards with an onlaid color reproduction. Cloth has picked up offset white particles (mostly to rear cover) else pretty much as..... More
Cat.No: 288930
Berkeley: The College of Agriculture, UC Berkeley, 1933. 168p., footnotes, tables, illustrations, photos, index, very good in original buckram cloth and gilt. California Agricultural Extension Service Circular 53, June, 1931; revised December 1933. More
Cat.No: 111446
Sausalito: Self-published by the author, 2001. Hardcover. 145p., 8.25x10.25 inches, illustrated with b&w and color family photos, self-published autobiography of a Philadelphian pair who ended up in San Francisco after traveling the world and serving in the ARC, very good first edition in orange cloth. More
Cat.No: 181188
Paris: Flores Editions d'Art, 2003. Hardcover. 79p., text in French, color photos on glossy stock, personal inscription signed by the photographer (also French) plus, laid in, a folded sheet with handwritten greeting and thanks from the photographer (in English) with a tipped-in original color photo print; fine first edition in..... More
Cat.No: 223795
Los Angeles: UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1988. Paperback. 96p., wraps, profusely illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good exhibition catalog. More
Cat.No: 317555
San Francisco: Lane Publishing Co., 1936. Paperback. Second edition of an enormously influential manual, toned, pages brittle, chipping at joints, minor wear and tear on covers. 128p., complete text and unclipped photos, diagrams and so forth, mostly sound and entirely clean and unmarked, but the very first leaf (a "this..... More
Cat.No: 312319
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. 101p., profuse b&w illustrations from photography, one color plate set as frontispiece, small hardbound in 7x5 inch green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is very good: sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket is edgeworn with a...... More
Cat.No: 298108
Berkeley: Obata Studio, 1940. Pamphlet. 15 pg. staple-bound pamphlet, 9.5" x 6.25". Illustrations and diagrams by Chiura Obata. A couple of minor spots to cover, very good. Designed by Wilder Bentley. Haruko Obata was one of the first Ikebana instructors in America. Along with her husband, the artist and Berkeley..... More
Cat.No: 276076
Tokyo: Rikuyo-sha, 1997. 159p., 10.5x14 inches, hardcover with dj, very good. Album of photographs of zikamori, three-dimensional miniature landscapes involving flowers, small plants, bonsai trees, statuettes, etc. More
Cat.No: 136607
Tokyo: Shufu no Tomosha, 1997. Hardcover. 155p., very good 105x7.5 inch hardcover in dust jacket. Text in Japanese; color photos illustrate pairing of ancient ceramics with floral arrangements. More
Cat.No: 150467
