Japan from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 170pp. Small address label inside front cover, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), slightly creased/rolled at spine ends, with small portion of lamination beginning to separate; Very Good. The… Read more about this item

London: Stanley Paul & Co, (1912). Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's embossed blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; 471pp; 48pp publisher's ads; gravure frontispiece portrait and 65 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Spine rubbed and sun-faded, else moderate rubbing and soil to cloth; internally clean, tight, and complete; Very Good. Ownership signature of a May… Read more about this item

Dayton: Otterbein Press, (1946). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Previous owner's ink note to front free endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap); slightly edgeworn with brief loss at crown of spine and a small triangular chip to rear panel; Very Good.… Read more about this item

Ormond Beach: The Doldrums, 1951. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; 26,[4]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, minor marks to rear board, generally Very Good or better. 750 copies printed. [62057].

Billings, MT: Eastern Montana College, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; viii,42pp; illus. Slight separation of covers at bottom 1" of text, else a clean, Very Good or better copy. Exhibition of drawings, caricatures and paintings by Benjamin Charles Steele, long-time Professor of Art at Estern Montana University and a former prisoner of war during WW2.

Tokyo: Fuji Color Photo Company, Ltd, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Pictorial flexible boards; single leaf of text (bilingual, English & Japanese) with ten mounted 35mm color transparencies. About fine. Eighth in a series of similar photographic books from Fuji, each containing 10 color transparencies on a different theme. According to the rear cover, the… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (31cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 323pp, illus. Fine in fine jacket; bookplate inside front cover of Smithsonian curator James G. Mead.

London: The Hakluyt Society, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xlii],428pp; black and white illus. Straight, sturdy, and bright, with spotting to top and fore-edges of textblock, not affecting interior: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, Very Good or better. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 7.

[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States,… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's beige cloth, in dust jacket; xii,251pp; color plates throughout. Straight, fresh copy: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Tight, straight copy, Near Fine, in price-clipped but otherwise Near Fine jacket. An attractive copy of Endo's critically-acclaimed sixth novel, winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize. Translated by Van C. Gessel, and including a brief Translator's Note by him.

Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; [24pp]. Small spot of discoloration to rear cover, else Near Fine. Gifford's seventh published book, a collection of short lyrics mostly composed in Japan in 1975.

Berkeley: North Point Press, 1989. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's white printed card wrappers; xxvi,[2],175pp.; double-page chart in rear. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities and the whole rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Advance uncorrected reading copy with promotional literature laid in. Collection of poems and sermons by the 14th-century Japanese Buddhist monk.

London: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 330pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new.

[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching text without loss of sense, some uneven toning, else Very Good. Contents include lectures by Dainin Katagiri-roshi, Tenshin (Reb) Anderson, Sojun Mel Weitsman, and Shunryu Suzuki-roshi.

Tokyo: Subterraneans Books, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 15pp. Inscribed on title page: "For my great friend Harry Smith / Menke," dated 1967 and with a small doodle of some flowers. Small scuff and a bit of dusting to wrappers, else Near Fine. Twelve short pieces by the Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet. Bilingual text in facing English… Read more about this item

[Los Angeles: Peoples Action Union, n.d. but 1975?]. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into eight-panelled pamphlet; illus. and text printed in brown. Light wear from handling, extremities a bit toned, else Very Good. Brochure promoting the upcoming 21st World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of March,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1918. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 292pp, frontis., 36 plates, 2 fold-out maps. Spine and portion of rear panel sunned; dampstains and light soiling; leading corners bumped. Textblock top edge stained blue, faded; damping and toning throughout; pastedowns wrinkled. Else, Very Good. The… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Nihon Sekijuji-sha, 1958. Later printing. Heavy quarto (30cm); dark red cloth, stamped in white and gilt, slipcover presumed missing; pictorial endpapers; 269pp. Rubbing and material chipping to extremities, with very small gouges along lower rear edge; cloth "bubbled" on rear board; mild wear and soiling. Textblock edges soiled (especially top); interiors toned with some offsetting and light foxing… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm); pictorial paper wrappers, in identically illustrated dustwrapper; [319pp]. Wrappers soiled, smudged and worn; top edges creased, rolling slightly; pages toned along margins; overall Very Good, sound. Katsu Yoshida, described within as "Japan's Top Illustrator", named the English version of his art book High Coup, as a pun on the word "Haiku".… Read more about this item