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Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1972. Eigth printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. xviii, 201. 109 half tone plates, 11 colour. Some minor creases to covers, lower tips bumped, else a clean, firm copy.

Tokyo: John Weatherill and Shibundo, 1973. First Edition. Laminated patterned boards. Very good/near fine. Sm 4to. (23.5 x 19cm) pp. 143. 138 illus, mainly b&w, some in colour. Slight spotting to top page edges. Otherwise a very sharp copy in a like, price clipped jacket.

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1973. First Tuttle edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. xv, 240. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, pages slightly toned, else a clean, firm copy.

London: China Inland Mission. Reprinted, Nov 1959. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. In clipped dust jacket, small chip to front panel, else a very clean, bright copy.

London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1904. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good. Sm 8vo. Tan cloth, gilt titles to board, black lettered title to spine, Japanese kanji to board. 20 b&w photog. plates including b&w tissue guarded frontis. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, with ex-libris plate to front pastedown. Some pencil marks to front pastedown. Corners bumped, some marks to front cover, light wear to cover edges, internally clean and unmarked. An interesting collection of photographs reflecting Japanese society in the late C19th.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very good. xvi, 347. Only light use, a very sound, sharp copy.

NP, ND. Thin threadbound card. Good +. An undated facsimile of Utamaro's famous black and white woodblock printed book, 'Scenes of Suruga and Mai', of 1790, measuring 19cm x 26cm. Unpag, 25 leaves w/ 46 reproductions. With light wear to covers, which show some crease marks and handling; some light wear to some pages. Probably dates latter half of the C20th. Images from the original book are available online at the British Museum.

Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968. Reprinted with permission of Dodd, Mead. Dark green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, covers a little darkened, rear cover has a slight bump to top edge, else a very good copy. Reprints the 1923 Dodd, Mead edition. With a preface by Albert Mordell. pp. 339.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good. Lrg 8vo. xxxiii, 400. Small mark to front board, else only minimal use, a very sound copy. No jacket (as issued).

London / New York: B. T. Batsford / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Brown boards, gilt titles to spine. Red stained top edge. ix, map, 198. w/ line drawings and b&w illus. Price clipped dust jacket with minor rubs to folds, slight spotting to leading page edges. Otherwise a very bright, clean copy, minimal use.

New York: E P Dutton, 1962. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine/fine. 8vo. Wheat cloth, red title label to spine with gilt blocked letters. vii, 321. Unclipped jacket in transparent removable sleeve. A very sound, sharp copy, minimal signs of use.

Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. pp. 464 + numerous b&w photog. illus. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, else a very bright, sound copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1971. First UK Edition. Original Cloth. Very good/very good. 4to. Lime green cloth, gilt titles to spine. pp. 215. Prof. illus in colour. Price clipped jacket in removable mylar sleeve. Previous owner's exlibris stamp to half title. Signs of light wear, head of spine bumped, else a very clean, sound copy.

New York: Dover Publications, 1979. Reprint of the 1922 Kegan Paul edition. Card wraps. Good +. 8vo. xvi, 382. 274 b&w illus. Crease to rear cover, spotting to page edges, only, else a firm, sound copy, internally clean.

New York & Tokyo: Weatherill / Heibonsha, 1976. First English edition. Patterned boards. Very Good/very good. 4to. Gold endpapers. pp. 168 with temple plans including one fold out and a fold out timeline. Light edgewear to clipped jacket. Otherwise a very clean, sound copy, binding tight.

London: Macmillan Press, 1979. First UK edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/very good. Foreword, Ronald Dore. 8vo. Gilt titles to spine on blue cloth. Blue endpapers. xxvi, 319. In unclipped jacket with minimal edgewear. A hint of foxing, only, to flyleaf, else a very clean, bright copy in like jacket.

Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. pp. 314. Bumped to upper tips, previous owner's name to flyleaf, else a clean, bright copy. Uncommon.

Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1986. First Edition. Pictorial card wraps. Very good. 4to (27.5cm). pp. 207. Excellent illustrations, mainly b&w, w/ some colour plates. A group of people have signed their names to the rear free endpaper, dated Leiden, 18 IV 1988, possibly from an academic conference or such. Minor wear to edges of covers, tips, still a clean, firm copy.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good/very good. 4to. Based on the exhibition held at The National Gallery for Art, Washington. xi, 402. Superb illustrations and extensive bibliography. Minor wrinkles to jacket, which has had three short cellotape strips applied to front and rear inner panels and pastedowns to retain it in place. Otherwise a very sound copy, no other flaws of note.

New York: W W Norton & Co, 2004. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near fine/very good. Photos by the Magnum member. 4to (30 x 31.5cm). In publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, embossed kanji to cover. Map endpapers. pp. 225, 175 colour photographs. Light edgewear, wrinkles, to jacket, otherwise a very sound, firm copy.