Japan: Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1936. Soft Cover.
Binding has been repaired. Light general wear to onion-skin wrapper.
84 pp. CONTENTS: Earliest Period of the Japanese Drama; Final Form of the Ancient Drama; Development of the Kabuki Drama; First Creative Period; Puppet Drama; Second Creative Period; Music.....
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1988. Soft Cover.
Light stain along edges.
Folded map. Two-sided map. Close-up of mountain and perspective within local area of Himalayan mountain range.
Tokyo: The Kokka Publishing Company. Large Hardcover.
Former library copy - usual marks. Rear board partially broken away from binding. Light stain along edge of softcover supplement.
Oblong. 88 prints, hand-numbered in pencil in top right margin, Japanese text introduction, softcover supplement with English intro and table of contents laid.....
Shanghai: Shanghai Metro Construction Corporation Ltd. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a very good publisher's slipcase. Slipcase boars rubbed.
Hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Dual text: Mandarin and English. "Papercut is a picture cut out on a paper with scissors. The picture patterns are often pasted on the lintels.....
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1971. Hard Cover.
A near fine jacket covered in a very good onionskin jacket. Pencil initials on front free endpaper, ink name on title page.
xxix, 150 pp. "Ugetsu Monogatari (????, Tales of Moonlight and Rain) is a collection of nine supernatural tales by the.....
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A few pages dog-eared.
xxvii, 574 pp. "An oral history of the Vietnam war in both the United States and Vietnam features first-hand accounts of how the war was experienced by soldiers, policy makers, protesters, operatives, doctors, artists, and journalists;.....
Okinawa: Armed Forces Wives Clubs, 1975. Soft Cover.
Wrappers heavily creased, pages crinkled, ink gift not on first two pages, page corners dog-eared.
206 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Keystone of the Pacific: Description of the Ryukyus, its History and Culture; Living on Okinawa: Sightseeing, Travel and Everyday Living; Leisure Time.....
Okinawa: Armed Forces Wives Clubs, 1977. Soft Cover.
Front wrapper stained, sticker on rear wrapper.
237 pp. CONTENTS: Pack-Up: A Survival Kit for Okiawan-Bound Okusan - Military Hotel Hopping - Touring the Orient; Discover: Okinawa As It Was (A Photo Essay) - The Odyssey from Legend to Elections - A......
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Color reproductions of historical illustrations, several regional maps precede text. This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs. The translation.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Wrappers rubbed.
160 pp. "Colonel Barker's book on Pearl Harbor is a most illuminating account of the dramatic stroke which marked Japan's entry into the Second World War, and temporarily paralysed the American Fleet in the Pacific. It also.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Wrappers lightly rubbed.
160 pp. "Colonel Barker's book on Pearl Harbor is a most illuminating account of the dramatic stroke which marked Japan's entry into the Second World War, and temporarily paralysed the American Fleet in the Pacific. It.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Sticker ghosting on rear wrapper.
160 pp. "If we are resolute and are prepared to sacrifice twenty million Japanese lives in a Kamikaze effort victory will be ours!" For what followed from this harrowing conviction history has no parallel
.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. One inch tear to jacket spine head, a few minor stains along jacket edges.
597 pp. "Daughter of English missionaries, Alice Greenwood is captured during a massacre of Christians and taken away to Hunan, where she becomes a......
Washington, D.C. Office of Air Force History, 1977. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Ink stamp on rear paste-down endpaper.
xii, 381 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Air Operations in South Vietnam, 1962-1964; The In-Country Air War, 1965-1972; The Air War Against North Vietnam; Interdiction in the Laotian Panhandle; Air Operations Over.....
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
208 pp. "The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle", is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The.....
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor ink mark on rear jacket panel.
xii, 328 pp. The Sikh Wars; The Third China war, 1860; The Expedition to Abyssinia, 1867-8; The Ashanti Campaign, 1873-4; The South African War, 1880-1; The Egyptian Campaign, 1882; The Reconquest.....
New York: Random House, 2012. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Spine lightly cocked.
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a......
New York: The Century Co., 1898. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Mull exposed at front hinge, top corner of front free endpaper chipped, ink name on second blank.
xiv, 247 pp. Gilt image of a lion on spine and front board. Historical account of Marco Polo, who traveled in the 13th.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd., 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Page ridges and front & end matter lightly foxed, spine faded, corners rubbed, light stain on corner of first several pages.
xvi, 222 pp. 1-page terminal publisher ad. A history of the presence of the.....
Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. Trade Paperback.
Former copy of St. John's Home - call number taped to spine, pocket and ink stamp. Marginalia throughout, pages lightly toned.
xxi, 303 pp. Fold-out maps follows text. "The author describes her experiences crossing the Gobi Desert in 1926 with her two fellow English.....
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926. Hard Cover.
Special edition limited to 500 copies. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Small abrasion to base of rear board.
x, [2], [895]-996, 1047-1070, [1]-101, [3] pp. William Wisner Chapin produced 130 hand-colored lantern slides of Korea that are housed in the permanent.....
New Mexico: Complementary Medicine Press / Paradigm Publications, 2004. Large Softcover.
Owner label on title page.
xx, 291 pp. "Writing this work as a textbook for her English-speaking students, a physician trained in both Western and traditional Chinese medicine reviews TCM concepts and presents a whole-person diagnostic routine. Tables clearly.....
Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981. Reprint. Small Hard Cover.
Pages lightly toned.
41 pp. 5" x 4 3/4" fan shaped hardcover. Red background with yellow, green, white and gold stitching. "Noh Fans are an essential element element of Japanese theater and this collection of fans is a rare example of.....
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1996. Ji, Ma. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Spine lightly creased, wrappers lightly crinkled, a few pages dog-eared.
645 pp. Color frontispiece, drawings in text by Ma Ji. The present volume is a translation of the first Chinese edition of The Life of Confucius published.....
Detroit, Mich. Bay View Reading Group, 1904. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover.
Fourth edition. No jacket, boards lightly rubbed with light stain to rear board, pencil marginalia throughout.
xiv, 403 pp. CONTENTS: Physiography; Industrial Japan; Travel, Transportation, Commerce; People, Houses, Food, Dress; Manners and Customs; Japanese Traits; History (Old Japan); History.....