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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. xii, 314, (2) pages. First impression of the trade edition. This copy has been rebound by Whitman Bennett in a lovely half-brown leather over cloth boards, with gilt on spine, for Korner & Wood (binder's ticket on front free endpaper). Spine slightly faded. Very minor rubbing to the spine, else a near fine copy. Studies of the Vatican Library, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Bodoni, etc. A beautiful book.
SIGNED ILLUTRATED HISTORY & TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN. We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations. by de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K - 1947
by de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K
![SIGNED ILLUTRATED HISTORY & TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN. We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations. by de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K - 1947](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/719/604/1482604719.0.m.jpg)
SIGNED ILLUTRATED HISTORY & TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN. We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.
by de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K
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Yokohama, Japan: Yamagata Press, 1947. First editions, later 1947 printings.
PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL.
Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters. Vol. 1 cover edges worn, top edge soiled, overall good+; Vol. 2 minimal wear to cover edges, text edges darkened, otherwise very good. Both volumes in archival custom mylar covers.
MIYANOSHITA is one of the Seven Hot Springs of Hakone, Japan. The hot springs have been an attraction for tourists and pleasure-seekers for hundreds of years going back to the beginning of the Edo period. The Fujiya Hotel is one of the oldest in Japan, founded in 1878. Notable guests include Charles Chaplin, Helen Keller, John Lennon, and Prince Albert (later George VI) of the UK. The Main Building, the Comfy Lodge, Restful Cottage, the Flower Palace, and the Annex Kikka-so Inn are all registered as important cultural assets. These books, signed by an author hotel president, respectively, were printed 2 years after the end of World War II. The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL.
Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters. Vol. 1 cover edges worn, top edge soiled, overall good+; Vol. 2 minimal wear to cover edges, text edges darkened, otherwise very good. Both volumes in archival custom mylar covers.
MIYANOSHITA is one of the Seven Hot Springs of Hakone, Japan. The hot springs have been an attraction for tourists and pleasure-seekers for hundreds of years going back to the beginning of the Edo period. The Fujiya Hotel is one of the oldest in Japan, founded in 1878. Notable guests include Charles Chaplin, Helen Keller, John Lennon, and Prince Albert (later George VI) of the UK. The Main Building, the Comfy Lodge, Restful Cottage, the Flower Palace, and the Annex Kikka-so Inn are all registered as important cultural assets. These books, signed by an author hotel president, respectively, were printed 2 years after the end of World War II. The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
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- Keywords Japan; World War II; travel; society; binding; signed; illustrations
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MAGIC OF THE BOOK, MORE REMINISCENCES AND ADVENTURES OF A BOOKMAN.|THE
by Orcutt, William Dana
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The Successors of Genghis Khan
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New York: Columbia University Press [0-231-03351-6] 1971, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 372pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Map endpapers, notes, bibliography, glossary, tables, index. Translated by John Andrew Boyle. (History--Asia, History--Asia, Khan Dynasty, Mongol Empire).
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Two Fables
by Morley, Christopher
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 95pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. Bound in black cloth with titles on paper label both on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of rubbing to bottom front edge and light bumping to spine ends. Equally attractive, scare unclipped jacket, ($1.50), has some spotting on front and back panels but is still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectabe copy and quite uncommon with a dust-jacket in such high-grade condition.
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Otto at Sea (Revised Edition)
by Du Bois, William Pene
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New York: Viking, 1958 Blue cloth and grey pictorially stamped in blue, minor shelf wear and bumping to corners (not affecting pages), damp stain to rear endpaper; color pictorial dust jacket with some waviness along bottom edge and damp stain along rear fold, foxing, small hole in front fold, light chipping to extremities, original price intact ($2.50). This book was made during a time when Du Bois was redoing his earlier work to take advantage of advancements in color printing. While the text of Otto at Sea remains untouched, the new artwork makes the book "quite different and more complex..." Bader page 182.. First Revised Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Illus. by William Pene Du Bois. Small 4to.
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SIGNED 1000 YEARS OF JOYS AND SORROWS
by AIWEIWEI
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A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
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Rauschenberg in the Rockies
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Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 3 through April 3, 1981 at Colorado State University and then traveled to ten other locations for additional dates. Foreword by Peter A. Jacobs. Essay by Ron G. Williams. Includes some color and black and white illustrations with two illustrated translucent sheets. A very good plus copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear and a tiny sticker shadow to the verso of the front cover. An attractive and uncommon catalog.
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N.P.: n.p., 1883. broadside (13 by 20 inches). Drawing of a grounded ship. In upper right corner is the name "G. Willême" and the dates December 22, 1883 and January 22, 1883.
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[DREAMY SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPH ca. 1910]. Woman seated on a river bank
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S.l., 1910. Good. 168 x 115 mm, photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely, romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach, holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river, her expression seemingly wistful. We have been unable to identify the subject of this remarkable vintage photograph. From the Dorothy Sloan collection of Women in the West.
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The Road
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New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006. A First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine. Fine and appears unread in a fine dust jacket.
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No Country for Old Men
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Vietnam: A History
by Stanley Karnow
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire…
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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Descent of Man. an Atlantic Monthly Press Book
by Boyle, T. C
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Stories. : Little Brown & Co, 1979. . First American paperback edition. . Paperback.. Near Fine. . One or two tiny dots to front, otherwise immaculate copy of first printing of paperback of author's scarce first book. Extremely rare, issued at the same time as the unobtainable hardcover first.
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Wounds of Hong Kong 港傷 - Portraits of the Hong Kong Protesters and Their Stories
by Choi Wai Man, Ko Chung Ming
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Hong Kong: Brownie Publishing, 2020. 1st edition. Paperback. like new/no dj as issued. Hong Kong, 2020, in Englishand Chinese. 7.5 - 6 inches, 140 pages. Like new condition. Ships from Hawaii. ==. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."Scars and bruises may fade, but we must remember what caused them. The purpose of《Wounds of Hong Kong》is to record police brutality. All 24 interviewees have sacrificed in their own ways during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Among the thousands wounded, they are only a few. I would like to sincerely thank them for sharing their experience, insights, and feelings to me. I remember at the beginning of the resistance outbreak in June of 2019. As a photographer/journalist, I felt unsure. Protesters all covered their faces with masks, so how could I tell their stories? How can I search their ethos beneath the masks? However, my worry was quickly swept away as I realized that they weren't the only ones…
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A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE SECRET SERVICE
by Deacon, Richard
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London: Frederick Muller LTD, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with penicl marking to inner board, trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with owner's pasted stamp to front cover, trace edge wear noted else bright, intact and whole. JEX 1/21
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Foundations and Limits of State Power in China
by Schram, Stuart R. (ed)
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School of Oriental & African Studies, Univ of London, 1987 First Printing in dust jacket as new, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, slight quiet soil to unlaminated jacket, neat gift inscription to endpaper, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; xxx + 367pp indexed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Blood Brothers .The Criminal Underworld of Asia
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. As New/as new. Lifts the lid on organised crime in Asia. Scarce. 470pp. Fine in fine d/w. Stated First Edition in this edition - March 2003. Size 16.5 x 24cms. Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to Australian addresses.
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Indians in Guyana: A Concise History from Their Arrival to the Present
by Basdeo Mangru
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Chicago: Adams Press, 1999. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 108 pages.
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Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos
by Christopher Kremmer
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 213 pages.
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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
by WAUGH, Teresa
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NY: Facts on File, 1984. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Facts On File. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST American Edition. AS NEW, bound in Gobi-desert-brown boards in shades of gray pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Small push to points, else FINE. A modern translation from the Italian by Maria Bellonci. Magnificent color photographs throughout by Sergio Strizzi from the film Marco Polo directed by Giuliano Montaldo.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine.
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