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.

Bush, Peter R.; Malmkjær, Kirsten:

Rimbaud’s rainbow. Literary translation in higher education.

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, John Benjamins publishing company, 1998. 23 cm. VIII, 202 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Benjamins translation library, v. 21.

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.

Hearn, Lafcadio.

The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn. With an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.

Santa Barbara, Ross-Erikson, Inc., Publishers, 1977. 14. cm x 21.5 cm. XXVII, 303 pages. One black and white photographic illustration on frontispiece and half a dozen pen-and-ink drawings in text. Original Hardcover (grey cloth and title embossed in blue on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. There is a beautiful, small library plate on the bottom right corner of the front free endpaper.

Ibuki, Kazuko.

Ware yori hoka ni: Tanizaki Junichiro saigo no juninen (Japanese Edition).

Tokyo, Ko¯dansha, 1994. 21.5 cm x 15.1 cm. 541 pages. Original Tankobon Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine/as new condition. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

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.

Keene, Donald (ed.).

Modern Japanese Diaries. The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed through their Diaries.

First edition. New York, Henry Holt, 1995. 24 cm. X, 534 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. [An owl book].

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.

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.

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai.

The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese. Selected and Edited by the Special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics Translation Committee, Nippon Gakijutsu Shinkokai.

Rutland / Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. 8°. XVI, 192 pages. With many illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. With his name on the half-title page. Text underlined and annotated with pencil in places.