1. [Yama-to-Keikoku]

Yama-to-Keikoku.

12 issues (bound in two Volumes) Tokyo, Yama-to-Keikokusha, no year. Octavo. 245 pages (Vol. 38-39) and 792 pages (Vol.169-178). Numerous monochrome illustrations. Hardcover [blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine-labels]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean interior lightly tanned throughout. Former Library copy. Alpine Club Library stamps on preliminary pages.

2. 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.

3. Tsunoda, Ryusaka / De Bary, Wm. Theodore / Keene, Donald.

Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume II.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1964. 8°. XIV, 406 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. [Introduction to Oriental Civilizations]

4. McCullough, Helen Craig.

Tales of Ise – Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by Helen Craig McCullough.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1968. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 277 pages. Original Hardcover (yellow ochre cloth with title in gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and an interesting bookplate on front pastedown.

5. Soseki, Natsume.

Light and Darkness. An Unfinished Novel by Natsume Soseki.

New York, Perigee Books, 1971. 8°. 397 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

6. Special Noh Committee.

The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese. Selected and Translated by the Special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics Translation Committee.

Vermont / Japan, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. 16.2 cm x 23.5 cm. XVI, 192 pages. With black and white illustrations, plan of a Noh theatre and map of Japanese provinces. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. As new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing and light pink stain to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian- Andersen Translator, Erik Haugaard.

7. Waley, Arthur.

The No Plays of Japan.

Rutland / Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. 8°. 270 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Text underlined with pencil in places.

8. Ury, Marian.

Tales of Times Now Past – Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection. Translated and with an Introduction by Marian Ury.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. XI, 199 pages. Eight black-and-white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Randall Goodall. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. 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.

10. Stewart, Harold.

A Chime of Windbells – A year of Japanese Haiku in English verse. With 33 Haiku Paintings in Full Color. Translations with an essay by Harold Stewart.

Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc, 1981. 13 x 20 cm. 236 pages, including illustrations. Original Hardcover with slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.