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KIMONO FABRIC DESIGN SAMPLE BOOK
- Condition
- Used - Some samples creased or lightly soiled, most in Fine shape
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- [1950s?]
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$937.50
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[1950s?]. First Edition. Softcover. Some samples creased or lightly soiled, most in Fine shape. Folio (12" x 16") sheets string-tied with numerous actual fabric samples loosely laid in. From early in the Showa Era (1926-1989), this appears to be from the Hasegawa Kimono company, apparently still in business, and contains samples for everyday wear. There are approximately 80… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
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JAPANESE ART FOLIO
by SHUGIO, Heromich (editor)
- Condition
- Used - Plates are generally Fine with some light foxing to a few of the margins. A few of the wrappers are faded, but they are generall
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1898 - 1899
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$2,500.00
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Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1898 - 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Plates are generally Fine with some light foxing to a few of the margins. A few of the wrappers are faded, but they are generally in very nice condition with no chips or tears. The slipcases are a bit worn, six of them soiled and spotted. Part 1 lacks its… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
ART, LIFE, AND NATURE IN JAPAN
by ANESAKI, Masaharu
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1932
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs.
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$25.00
THE HISTORY OF JAPAN: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THAT EMPIRE ... TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM
by [JAPAN] KAEMPFER, Engelbert
- Condition
- Used - Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright, Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1728
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$9,375.00
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London: for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright, Near Fine. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in volume 2), translated from… Read more about this item Item Price
$9,375.00
MEIJI PERIOD PHOTO ALBUM with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs Including the Aftermath of the Great Earthquake of 1891
by [JAPAN]
- Condition
- Used - Cardboard pages in album have a slight wave; prints have light toning along edges and light silvering, a few prints with light s
- Published
- @1892
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$3,750.00
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@1892. Hardcover. Cardboard pages in album have a slight wave; prints have light toning along edges and light silvering, a few prints with light soiling and foxing affecting content; all prints have good exposure. Heavy fraying and wear to covers, spine dry with moderate chipping and a tear along one edge. Covers Fair but overall the photographs themselves are… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,750.00
MEIJI PERIOD PHOTO ALBUM with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs
by [JAPAN]
- Condition
- Used - Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal cra
- Published
- @1892
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$7,500.00
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@1892. Hardcover. Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal crack about 3 inches from the bottom and extending across most of the cover doing little to detract from the lovely decorative scene. Overall a beautiful example, uncommon in such nice condition. Oblong… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
AUSSFUHRLICHE GESCHICHT DER IN DEM AUSSERSTEN WELT-THEIL GELEGENEN JAPONESISCHEN KIRCH
by [JAPAN] CRASSET, Jean
- Condition
- Used - Nineteenth century signature to front fly leaf and early signature to title, some very light staining in various places througho
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1738
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$3,125.00
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Augsburg: Franz Antoni Alger, 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Nineteenth century signature to front fly leaf and early signature to title, some very light staining in various places throughout (mostly only visible in margins); expected soiling to binding. A clean and attractive Near Fine example. Quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") with two parts bound together in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,125.00
THE CEREMONIES OF A JAPANESE MARRIAGE
by [JAPAN]
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1908)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$187.50
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(Kobe, Japan): (T. Takagi), (1908). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in flexible string-tied silk boards (10" x 7") with a color-printed title page and 20 color collotypes with some hand-coloring protected by tissue guards depicting the process of making silk.
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$187.50
IN JAPAN: WITHOUT CLOCK OR CALENDAR
by YULE, Emma Sarepta
- Condition
- Used - Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappe
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1935)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$37.50
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Boston: The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.
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$37.50
