Japan from Catron Grant Books
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A Story of Raw Silk
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 1939
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- Paperback
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$35.00
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Tokyo: The Central Raw Silk Association of Japan, 1939 26 pp. with photo illustrations of silkworm culture and silk production throughout. Bpund in raw silk with a silk braid tie, Endpapers are metallic flecked handmade paper. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and intact.. Landscape Format Softcover. Very Good. 9.5" x 7.5". Item Price
$35.00
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Inro Handbook: Studies Of Netsuke, Inro, And Laquer
by Bushell, Raymond
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780834801356
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- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$32.00
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Weatherhill, 1979 263 pp with B&W and color illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey cloth boards and DJ are bright and intact.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$32.00
The World of the Great Buddha Master Matsuhisa Horin Komazawa Akira Photobook
by Ichibutsu Ichikai
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9784531061693
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- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$55.00
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Japan: Nipponkyobunsha, 1987 127 B&W photo illustrations of the artist's life and work plus 8 pp of text in Japanese. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and intact. A business card and brochure from the artist's workshop are included.. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 7 3/8" x 10 3/8". Item Price
$55.00
Japanese Netsuke
by Forman, Werner
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1960
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$32.00
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London: Spring Books, 1960 24 pps. plus 50 unpaginated, full-color plates. Inside covers are black Red, white and black title page. Text and plates are clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. White and black glossy paper-covered boards with gold-stamped white cloth spine, and black and red type with full-color netsuke photograph on front are clean and bright and very good; back… Read more about this item Item Price
$32.00
SUN BRAND SOROBAN SPECIAL ABACUS INSTRUCTION BOOK 1950?
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- Used - Fair
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- Paperback
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$11.00
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Japan: Nanjo & Co. 16 pp Pictorial instruction on how to use an abacus which was included with the sale of the company's abaci. Text is clean, tight and unmarked but has been folded at some point. Covers with view of Mt. Fuji are intact but much rubbed.. Pamphlet. Fair. 5.5" x 7.5". Item Price
$11.00
Japanese Instruction Bon Seki 22 Types of Waves
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$85.00
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Japan Bon Seki is a miniature landscape constructed of sand and stones on a black lacquer tray Bonseki is an ancient art form that recreates natural landscapes out of sand and rocks. to depict mountains or seashores. This accordian-fold block printed book instructs on how to portray 22 kinds os waves. There are pencilled phonetic translations on each… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
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Katachi Form and Spirit in Japanese Art
by The Albuquerque Museum
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1980
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- Paperback
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$12.00
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The Albuquerque Museum, 1980 131 pps. Bright red endpapers. B/W photographs throuout. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked; VG. Pale grey cardstock cover with calligraphy (in black) has been sunned and shows adhesive damage on the reverse. This is an Albuquerque Museum catalogue which accompanied a 1980 Japanese art exhibition.. Softcover. Good. 9" X 9". Item Price
$12.00
Now We Can All go Home:the repatriation of Allied and Japanese forces Pacific Theater WWII A Short Introduction to Nationalism
by Hays, Oren
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 2011
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- Paperback
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- 9781257971138
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- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$24.00
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Lulu Books, 2011 260 pps. with a number of b/w period photgraphs. Text clean, tight, and unmarked; . Beige softcover with white graphic and black type shows very minor wear. Subtitled "the repatriation of Allied and Japanese forces Pacific Theater WWII," this book explores the Sea Lifts that enabled the soldiers to go home.. 1st Edition.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
A Curious Life for a : The Story of Isabella Bird a Remarkable Victorian Traveler
by Barr, Pat
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- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$11.00
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Doubleday & Co., 1970 347 pp with 6 maps and 36 B&W plates A Scottish gentlewoman, Isabella Bird's travels in the Rockies, Hawaii, tJapan and the Far East Central Asia and Moroccoin the late 19th century. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Hinge split but holding at title page. Library stamps on title page and book appears to have… Read more about this item Item Price
$11.00
Fifty Years of Light and Dark The Hirohito Era
by The Staff of he Mainichi Daily News
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$65.00
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Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 464 pp with sixteen B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Beige cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean,with a tiny tear to the cloth on back board. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.. First Edition..… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
Samurai Weapons Tools of the Warrior
by cunningham, Don
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- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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- 2008
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9784805309582
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- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$24.00
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Vermont?: Tuttle Publishing, 2008 Vermont?: Tuttle Publishing, 2008 179 pps. plus colored illustrations on front and back endpapers and color illustrated frontespiece. B/W and coloired illustrations throughout. Text clean, tight and unmarked. Paper cover with gloss stamping pristine. As new. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. As New.. 1st Edition.. Paperback. As New. Item Price
$24.00
Japan and the World in the Post-cold War Era Firteen Leading Journalists Give a Frank Assessment of Japn's Future
by Anderson, Alun, Choi Su-yung, Chung Ku-Chong, Bill Emmott, et als.
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$16.00
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Japan: Foreign Press Center, 1990 Japan: Foreign Press Center, 1990 200 pgs. Produced by The Japan Times. Interior and cover as new and DJ with almost no evidence of wear. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 5 3/8" X 7 5/8".. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Item Price
$16.00
Airports
by Ishigati, Dr. Emiko Hanna
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$24.00
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Canada: Kdc, 1998 Canada: Kdc, 1998 200 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Short poems in Japanese with English translations. Trade Paperback. Very Good.. Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
$24.00
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)
by Katsuichi Honda; Frank Gibney; Karen Sandness
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780765603340
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- 1
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$175.00
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Routledge, 1998 Routledge, 1998 365 pp with B&W photo illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth boards, now in protective mylar, are undamaged. Cardboardf casing is bright and intact, with a little rubbing. Cased Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Item Price
$175.00
The North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition or My Last Cruise : Being an Account of Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor River. ( Library of Jay Cooke)
by Habersham, A. W.
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1858
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- Hardcover
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$265.00
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Philadelphia: J.b. Lippincott, 1858 Philadelphia: J.b. Lippincott, 1858 507 pp + 4 pp of advertisements post-text, plates in text. Text is tight and unmarked, with foxing to first few pages. Dark brown embossed cloth boards are mottled, with some loss of material at extremities.The book was a gift dated 1857 from Mrs.Dorothea Elizabeth Cooke to her son Jay Cooke Jr.… Read more about this item Item Price
$265.00
A pocket Guide to Japan PG-2 DAPAM 30177
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- Used - Fair
- Published
- 1952
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$17.00
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Washington D.C.: Office of Armed Forces Information and Education Department of Defence, 1952 Washington D.C.: Office of Armed Forces Information and Education Department of Defence, 1952 82 pp Designed for occupying American Forces. .Largely about Japanese culture and acceptable behavior.text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are rubbed and faded. Stapled Soft Cover. Fair. 4" x 5.5".. Hardcover. Fair. Item Price
$17.00
ETOFFES DE SOIE DU JAPON
by Ernst, Henri
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- Used - Good
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- 1925
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- Hardcover
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$225.00
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Paris, 1925 Paris, 1925 Loose leaf folio, orig. patterned cloth back boards with cord ties, Thirty eight tipped-in colour plates on light grey stock paper depicting wallpaper and fabric designs from Japan reproducing Japanese silk fabrics from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Fabrics of Lyon, Plus three text leaves. Large Format Stiff Paper.… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
Airview's The Fifty Years of Japanese Aviation 1910 - 1960 A Comprehensive History with 910 Photographs with Complete English Translation 3 Vols. Cased
by Katsu Kohri, Ikuo Komori & Ichiro Naito
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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- 1961
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$65.00
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Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Three volumes consisting of a quarto photo album of the airplanes, text in Japanese. Plus two smaller 6"x8.5" volumes in English. All fitted into a tan cardboard case. Texts are clean, tight and unmarked. Larger book has a DJ in VG condition, two smaller volumes have to DJ's. Case is strong and intact with… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
The Honorable Picnic
by Raucat, Thomas
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Published
- 1955
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$15.00
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NYC: Viking, 1955 319 pp. Reprint of the 1927 first edition. Text is clean, tight and unmmarked. Quarter-bound green paper boards are clean and bright. The DJ is another story, whole but heavily chipped, now in protective mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Item Price
$15.00
Was Musashi Murdered? An Other Questions in Japanese History
by Yamato, Fudo
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1987
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- Paperback
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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$38.00
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NYC: Zensho Communications, 1987 NYC: Zensho Communications, 1987 1144 pp with 66 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated paper covers are clean and undamaged. Some puzzling questions in Japanese history relating to Miyamoto Musashi, also known as Shinmen Takezo, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Doraku, was an expert Japanese swordsman and ronin. Courtesy Wikipedia.… Read more about this item Item Price
$38.00
