1. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke.

Exotic Japanese Stories – The Beautiful and the Grotesque. 16 Unusual Tales and Unforgettable Images. Translated by Takashi Kojima and John McVittee. Introduction by John McVittee.

New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1964. 14.9 cm x 21.9 cm. Colour Frontispiece, 431 pages. 22 Collage Illustrations: 6 Colour and 16 Black and White by Masakazu Kuwata. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. A very good+ hardcover copy in black and grey cloth stamped in silver and red gilt with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges and very minor fading to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor fraying and fading to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

2. Asia – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Asia – With Vignettes of Petra, Tartars, Russian Peasants, The Walrus, Sun-Birds of India and the Philippine Isles.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by J. Marchant and Engraved by J.B. Allen. London, Edinburgh & Dublin, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 31.8 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.2 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

3. Barr, Pat.

The Coming of the Barbarians – A story of Western settlement in Japan 1853-1870.

London, Macmillan, 1967. Octavo. 236 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [Reader’s Union Edition].

4. Berthier, Francois.

Reading Zen in the Rocks – The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden. Translated and with a Philosophical Essay by Graham Parkes.

First published in 1989. Chicago, London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. 17.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XI, 166 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Bornoff, Nicholas.

Pink Samurai – Love, Marriage & Sex in Contemporary Japan.

New York / London (and others), Pocket Books, 1991. 16 cm x 24 cm. XI, 479 pages. With several illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor signs of foxing to the edge. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

6. Brunn, Dr. jur.

Die Japanische Verfassungsurkunde [Japanese Law]. Aus dem Japanischen in das Deutsche übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.

Leipzig, Reclam, ca.1890. Kl.-8°. 39 Seiten. Softcover. Originale, dekorative Broschur. Guter bis sehr guter Zustand. Einige Anstreichungen mit Bleistift. Sehr selten. [Universal-Bibliothek 3796. 20 Pfennig].

7. Bushby, John / [Maori Village Travels] –

Round the World from North to South with Rod & Camera / Collection of three Volumes of printed and manuscript travelogue (reads like a logbook) / Travel Diary. Volume I – Privately printed, luxury photoalbum from the year 1907 – 1908 with 142 pages of printed photographs of a trip through Canada, Alaska South Sea Islands (Suva, Fiji), Tonga, New Zealand with several photographs of a trip on S.S.Manuka (Union Steam Ship Company) with images of life on board and of the trip to Maori Villages, Rotoiti, Tu Moana, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, Hunting, Fishing, Camping etc. / Volume II: Manuscript Volume in an easy decipherable hand of a trip on the steamer “Pretorian” from Liverpool on July 30th, 1903 to New York, Maryland, then on to Vancouver and Japan with excellent travel descriptions and list of costs of lodging in Yokohama, Kyoto, Nagasaki etc. / Volume III: Continues the Travelogue to Singapore, Siam, Java, Japan, Hawaii (Honolulu and back to California) – With extensive listing of costs for Passage, Hotels etc. in New York, Honolulu, Hongkong, etc. This Volume with longer descriptions of Hong Kong etc.

Daere (Cumberland), Privately printed and original manuscript, 1903 – 1908. Octavo. Volume I – 142 pages / Volume II (Manuscript) – 89 pages / Volume III (Manuscript) – 185 pages. Original Hardcover and flexible red leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Magnificent account with exact and vivid descriptions of localities and the technique of the trip and its expenses. Ticket Prices, Hotel Costs, Voyage costs from Harbour to Harbour etc. etc. Unpublished account of a british merchant family’s private (Cotton Merchant) trip around the world.

8. Clark, Timothy / C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

Shunga – Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. Timothy Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

London, British Museum Press, 2013. 30 cm. 536 pages with many color illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition iwth only very minor signs of wear.

9. de Waal, Edmund.

The Hare With Amber Eyes – A Family’s Century of Art and Loss.

11th edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 354 pages. Several black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Stunning condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print Hardcover – Version.

10. Eiichi, Kimura (and others).

Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 27: Taoism and Chinese Thought / Murakami Yoshimi – Affirmation of Desire in Taoism, Miyakawa Hisayuki – Legate Kao P’ien and a Taoist Magician Lü Yung-chih in the Time of Huang Ch’ao’s Rebellion, Kubo Noritada – Taoist Belief in Okinawa – with special emphasis on the Kitchen God Belief, etc.

Tokyo, The Toho Gakkai, 1974. 4°. V, 119 pages. Softcover. Small damage to the lower spine – Otherwise in very good condition. [Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 27.]