Tokyo: Kikaha Postal Mail, 1927. 2 color postcards published by Kikaha Postal Mail, which was active in the early 20th century. With the original commemorative envelope with an inscription in Japanese reading in part: Tokyo City Doll Farewell Party. Misao Yamagata gave them to Julia A. Shourek, with a brief..... More
Tokyo: Kikaha Postal Mail, 1920. The black-and-white view of Kobe Harbour from Suwayama Hill (Mt. Suwa) was published by Kikaha Postal Mail, which was active in the early 20th century. The color view of Tomonotsu was published by the N.Y.K. Line for its ocean liner Hikawa-Maru, which was launched in..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1906. Hardcover. xvi, 780 p., 66 leaves of illustrations, portraits, map (some folded): many in-text illustrations, portraits, maps; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket. Also includes: Contributions to the History of American Geology by George P. Merrill; The S. S...... More
S.l. Aga Khan Awards, 1980. Paperback. ix, 107 p.: black-and-white illustrations, maps, tables; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; spine is faded; pages are clean and tight. More
Tokyo: Museum of the Imperial Collections, 1994. Paperback. iv, [1], 93 p.: color illustrations; 29 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is in English and Japanese. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Taipei: Han Sheng Magazine Co., 2007. Poster. Red paper cover (30 x 25 cm.) holding 12 folded posters for 2007. All 12 are illustrated on the front cover. Title and descriptive text on the front cover are in English; the remainder of the text is in Chinese characters. Scarce. In..... More
Moscow: Intourist, 1965. Hardcover. [64] pages: illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. Hardback with blue cloth spine; black and white cover title. No year of publication, but it includes a photograph of Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) and Gherman Titov (1935-2000), suggesting that it was published between the 1961 flight by Gagarin and..... More
Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1996. Paperback. Issues 6 and 7 are combined in one volume. 294 pages; 28 cm. White paper cover printed in red and black. Cover is included in page count. In Near Fine Condition: corners slightly rubbed; clean and tight... More
Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1997. Paperback. Issues 8 and 9 are combined in one volume. 422 pages; 28 cm. White paper cover printed in red and black. Cover is included in page count. In Near Fine Condition: cover is lightly soiled; internally clean and tight... More
S.l. Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1978. Paperback. xiii, 115 p.: black-and-white illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes a glossary of Arabic terms. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; spine and upper edges of cover are faded; pages are clean and tight... More
Munich: Hermann Lukaschik, 1899. Hardcover. [4], 39, [1] p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Leather spine with dark brown pebble-grain paper over boards. Green leaf-pattern endpapers. Austrian Arabist and archeologist Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia and is still considered the most important scholar..... More
Tokyo: Japan Folk Crafts Museum; Seibu Museum of Art; Asahi Shimbun, 1986. Paperback. 142, [2] pages: many full-page color illustrations; 25 x 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is entirely in Japanese; captions include some English. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; clean and bright... More
S.l. s.n. Paperback. [24] leaves: ilustrations; 21 x 30 cm. Purple wrapper, stitched; reproduction of title from the 1780 original on front wrapper and first leaf. After the title leaf, each leaf reproduces the double-leaf illustration with kanji caption from the 1780 edition of this guide to Kyoto. Captions in..... More
New York: PB Eighty-Four, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. Paperback. Catalog for auction held July 9, 1980. [84] p.: illustrations; 20 x 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover; stapled. With: printed list of prices realized. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; lower edges of cover slightly creased; clean and solid..... More
Zürich: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt, 1979. Paperback. [10] pages (all folded): illustrations; 20 x 22 cm. Paperback; stapled. Catalog for an exhibition at Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt in Zurich on courtyards in Chinese architecture. Cover title: China: Hofhauser Courthouses. Text is in German and English. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: cover is..... More
Kyoto, Japan: Benrido Printing Co., n.d. Paperback. 73, [7] pages: color illustrations, plans; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. No date of publication. An illustrated guide to the Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga, one of the oldest Buddhist sites in Japan. The captions to the individual photographs are in Japanese and..... More
S.l. Aga Khan Awards, 1980. Paperback. xv, 109 p.: black-and-white illustrations, maps; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Former owner's name on title page. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; spine is faded; pages are clean and tight. More
Washington, D.C. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1978. Paperback. vi, 721 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with salmon cover printed in black. The Subcommittee on International Organizations examined "allegations of wrongdoing in the conduct of relations between the Republic of Korea and the United States." In Very Good Condition: lower corner..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Japan Architect, 1994. Paperback. 273, [3] p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is in English and Japanese. In Near Fine Condition: cover is sunned along upper edges; back cover is rubbed; otherwise, clean and bright. More
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. Revised April 1955. [2], 147 p., [24] p. of black-and-white photographs: maps; 19 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's catalog on front dust jacket flap. Commercial advertisements on front endpapers and back fixed endpaper. Gift inscription on..... More
Japan: 1910. Hardcover. 15 x 20 cm. album containing 52 postcards, 47 of them hand-colored. Black lacquer boards; front board illustrated with scene of a woman and a man painted in gilt and red. None of the postcards have been used and none have dates of publication. Some of the..... More
London: Sage Periodicals Press, 1995. Paperback. [2], 563-683, [5], 15, [1] pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback. Contents: Creating Urban Outcasts: Shantytown in Shanghai, 1920-1950 by Hanchao Lu -- Ethnicity and the Horizontal City: Mexican Americans and the Chicano Movement in San Jose, California by Joseph A. Rodriquez -- Urban Politics..... More
Tokyo: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, 1992. Hardcover. 30 p.: color illustrations; 26 cm. Brown cover with silver cover title. No slipcase. Gift inscription on p. 2 to American architect Robert Venturi from Japanese architect Seiji Sawada. Includes 12 Japanese postage stamps with Kabuki-related illustrations, accompanied by text in Japanese..... More
Tokyo: Knoll International Japan, 1991. Hardcover. 133 pages: illustrations; 28 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Black endpapers. Knoll furniture, textiles, and design in Japan. Text is in English and Japanese. In Good+ Condition: old repair of front joint; otherwise, clean and solid. More
Tokyo: Nippon Television Network and Yomiuri Shimbun, 1984. Paperback. 153, [1] pages: illustrations; 24 x 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Catalog of an exhibition of late Edo and Meiji era shop signs from the Morse Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition appeared in Takashimaya..... More