Search Results: Titles starting with S from Midnight Books

London: Compendium, 2001. Quarto, pp 192; full color illustrations throughout; full black cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket.

[c. 1950s]. Good. Textile sample book for fusuma (sliding door) coverings, 34 x 30 cm; 22 sample fabrics with inserts demonstrating the fabric as applied to the door, with names such as "new sense," "modernism," and "western flower"; painted cloth boards; boards and samples toned, last few samples without inserts, likely as issued, lower endpaper lacking, good. An interesting collection of modernist patterns.

Tokyo: Choukoron Shinsha, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. First edition, 4to, pp. 218, [2]; 5 color plates and 158 pages of grayscale facsimile calligraphy; text in Japanese; transcriptions and criticism of plates; printed paper wrappers; owner's signature on inner cover, plastic dust jacket torn at lower panel, text clean and sound, very good in lightly toned slipcase.

Princeton and Tokyo: Princeton University Press and University of Tokyo Press, [1979]. cloth. Very good. Square 8vo, pp. xiv, 417, [1]; full blue cloth patterned in white and red, gilt title on spine; text clean and bright, musty, else very good.

Pasadena: International College of California, 1979. Near Fine. Large 8vo, pp 119, [1]; text in English, illustrated throughout with color photographs; red paper covered boards, title printed in white on cover and spine; touch of toning to spine and a couple spots on final page, near fine Included is a 14-page insert with text in Japanese with step-by-step instruction on putting on KimonoAnd introduction text for identifying and wearing different types of kimono for men and women. With a brief history of Japanese clothing and a large section dedicated to the kumihimo, or braided cords used to secure the obi. The kumihimo section includes pattern, tools, and instructions for creating a number of different patterns of kumihimo.

London: Rider and Co., 1933. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. First edition, 8vo, pp. 286; full blue cloth gilt; blue stained top edge; light rubbing to corners, owner's signature on free endpaper and lower pastedown, else fine. David-Neel was a feminist, orientalist, Buddhist, and adventurer. She and her adopted son the Lama Aphur Yongden are best known for an illicit trip they took into Lhasa while the city was closed to foreigners.