1. Vespa, Amleto.

Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism. With an Introductory Note By H.J. Timperley, China Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1938. 14 cm x 22 cm. XIV, 287 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight rubbing to the spine and frontcover.

2. [Townsend Harris] – Crow, Herbert Carl.

Harris of Japan. The story of Townsend Harris and his amazing adventures in establishing relations with the Far East.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1939. 14 cm x 22 cm. 311 pages. Illustrations including frontispiece, portraits and 15 plates, in black and white. Original hardback. Some discoloration to the binding but overall in very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3. Shioya, Sakae.

Chushingura: An Exposition. Illustrated with Hiroshige’s Coloured Plates.

Second Edition. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, 1940. 23 cm. Colour frontispiece with lettered tissue-guard, XII, 236 pages. 4 folded, colour plates (including Frontispiece) with tissue-guards. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Upper spine damaged ! Interior in very good condition. All the Plates in excellent condition.

4. FAN, Kuang-Huan.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution. Selected documents. Edited and with notes by K. H. Fan.

New York ; London, Monthly Review Press, 1968. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XVI, 320 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5. Wu, Ching-Tzu.

The Scholars. Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. The author’s portrait and illustrations by Cheng Shih-Fa.

Third Edition. Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1973. 22 cm. 8, 607 pages. 21 leaves of plates, dome folded. Illustrations (including colour frontispiece) and portraits in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6. Ferrater Mora, José.

Unamuno. A Philosophy of Tragedy. Translated by Philip Silver.

Berkeley ; Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1962. 13 cm x 19 cm. X, 136 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight rubbing to the spine.

7. Grousset, René.

Chinese Art and Culture. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier.

First Edition. London, Andre Deutsch, 1959. 22 cm. 331 pages. Illustrations in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8. Teeguarden, Iona Marsaa.

A Complete Guide to Acupressure – Jin Shin Do. Contributors: Mischael Berry / Antonia Natoli / Deborah V. Smith / Tolling Jennings / a.o.

Tokyo, Japan Publications, Inc., 1999. 18 cm x 25.5 cm. 327 pages. Several black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. Yoshida, Yasuom et. al.

Japanese for Beginners.

Tokyo, Gakken, 1976. 15 cm x 21 cm 208 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight tear at the bottom of inside of dustjacket .

10. Tazawa, Yutaka et. al.

Japan’s Cultural History: A Perspective.

Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1973. 22 cm. 120 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

11. Rimer, J. Thomas et. al.

Shisendo: Hall of the Poetry Immortals.

First edition. New York, Weatherhill, 1991. 26 cm. VIII, 214 pages. 72 pages of plates. Original softcover. Good condition with stronger signs of external wear. There is a slight dampstain at the bottom of title page to page 24.

12. René de Berval.

Présence du Bouddhisme. Sous la direction de René de Berval. Ouvrage publié avec le concours de Centre National de Lettres.

Paris, Gallimard, 1987. 17.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 816 pages. 151 Illustrations. Reliure originale / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Bon etat / Dustjacket with some tears. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and with pre-owner’s stamp on frontfree endpaper. [Bibliothèque Illustrée des Histoires].

13. Nakane, Chie.

Japanese Society.

First Paperback Edition. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1973. 21 cm. 157 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A very slight stain on the back cover. Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies.

14. Nakamura, Matazo.

Kabuki, Backstage, Onstage. An Actor’s Life. Translated by Mark Oshima.

First Edition. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 1990. 23 cm. 164 pages. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Original hardcover with illustrated hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

15. Morgan, Kenneth W.

The Path of the Buddha – Buddhism Interpreted by Buddhists. Edited by Kenneth W. Morgan.

New York, The Ronald Press Company, 1956. 15 cm x 22 cm. X, 432 pages. Illustrated with maps of ‘The Buddhist World’ on back/front pastedowns and back/front free flaps. Original Hardcover (Beige cloth – title in grey on front cover and spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

16. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Japan’s Northern Territories.

Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981. 14 cm x 21 cm. 21 pages. Illustrations, includ Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

17. Kirkup, James.

Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri – The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Superstate.

London / Sydney / Singapore / Manila, Angus & Robertson, 1974. 14 cm x 22.2 cm. X, 278 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

18. [Inanna / Ishtar] Wolkstein, Diana / Kramer, Samuel Noah.

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth – Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.

Harper Perennial, 1983. Octavo. 256 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. New / Excellent condition.

19. IIda, Shotaro.

Facets of Buddhism. With Introductory Note by author.

London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1993. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. VII, 166 pages. Cover illustration on dustjacket of The Buddha entering into Nirvana (Japanese early 20th century, artist unknown). Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Hillsborough, Romulus.

Shinsengumi – The Shogun’s Last Samurai Corps.

Tokyo, Rutland (Vermont), Singapore, Tuttle Publishing, 2005. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XXV, 230 pages. Illustrated with four black-and-white photographs and four maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket illustrated with photograph of miniature Shinsengumi Banner. Cover image of Samurai courtesy of Masataka Kojima. Cover design by Horuga Yakobusu. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

21. Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck).

The Story of the Mikado. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.

First edition. London, Daniel O’Connor, 1921. 25 cm. XI, 114 pages. 6 leaves of plates. Illustrations (including colour frontispiece) in black and white. Original illustrated hardcover. Fair condition with signs of external wear. Noticeable staining to the front cover, rubbing of the spine, foxing on inside and selective pages and a tear on page 8.

22. Ernst, Earle.

The Kabuki Theatre.

Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1974. 24 cm. XXVII, 296 pages. Illustrated with 38 pages of plates. Original illustrasted softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. An East-West center book.

23. Eliot, Sir Charles Eliot. Sometime H.M. Ambassador at Tokyo.

Japanese Buddhism. With a Memoir of the Author by Sir Harold Parlett.

First Published in 1935. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1969. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XXXIV, 449 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket torn. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

24. Donald S. Lopez.

Religions of Asia in Practice. An Anthology.

Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII,734 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

25. 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.

26. Trautz, F.M.

Japan, Korea und Formosa – Landschaft / Baukunst / Volksleben. Aufgenommen von A. von Graefe, G. von Estorff, Gertrud Fellner, Herbert Ponting u.a., Mit einem Geleitwort von Botschafter D. Dr. h.c. Dr. W.H. Solf.

First Edition (with captions in german, french, italian and english). Berlin, Atlantis Verlag, 1930. 24 cm x 32 cm. LIV, 256 pages. 256 photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover (Orange cloth with title in embossed gilt on front and along spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tiny stain to bottom edge only.