1. Joya, Mock.

Mock Joya’s Things Japanese.

Sixth Edition. Tokyo, Tokyo News Service Limited, 1971. 15.5 cm x 17.5 cm. XXI, 745 pages. Illustrated throughout with a few black-and-white vignettes. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. [Weegee] (Arthur Fellig), Talmey, Allene.

Aperture Masters of Photography: Weegee.

Cologne, New York, Konemann Verlags Gmbh and Aperture Foundation, Inc. 1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover design by Peter Feierabend. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Dorfles, Gillo.

Gute Industrieform und ihre Ästhetik. [Industrial Form and its Aesthetics]

Munchen. Verlag Moderne Industrie. 1964. 24 cm x 28 cm. 104 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar / Leinen mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag in Mylar (lose Schutzfolie). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two small tears in dustjacket. / Der Schutzumschlag etwas angeraendert.

4. Best, Elsdon.

The Whare Kohanga (the ‘Nest House’) and its Lore. Comprising data pertaining to procreation, baptism, and infant betrothal, &c.; contributed by members of the Ngati-Kahungunu Tribe of the North Island of New Zealand. ‘He puta taua ki te tane, he whanau tama ki te wahine.’

First published 1929. Wellington, New Zealand, A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, 1975. 25 cm x 15.5 cm. 93 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very small tear in front of dustjacket. Rare !

5. The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings.

Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 1979. 16.5 cm x 24.5 cm 706 pages. XLV, 706 pages. Over 150 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two small items of publisher’s ephemera. Exemplar von Siegfried Unseld / Copy from the library of german publisher Siegfried Unseld / (Die Ausgabe wurde ihm von Iwanami Shoten im November 1985 ins Frankfurter Suhrkamp – Haus geschickt).

6. McCullough, William H. & Helen Craig.

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes [‘Eiga monogatari’] – Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by William H. & Helen Craig McCullough.

In two volumes. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 17 cm x 24 cm. Volume I – XV, pages 1 to 428 / Volume II – pages 429 to 910. Illustrated with 19 woodcuts from a 17th century edition and 20 diagrams including plans of the capital and the Imperial Palace and several genealogical charts. Original Hardcover (no dustjackets). Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.